slasher
The Last Matinee is a blood-soaked and nostalgic journey into a bygone era of movie theaters and their unique beauty.
Sure it doesn’t have the best acting, narrative or even the best effects, but Freddy vs. Jason offers audiences a return to slashers of old.
Given this era of social distancing, now would be the ideal time to re-watch the Friday the 13th franchise, or start them for the first time.
Black Christmas is angry, terrifying, empowering even – all that surrounded with the threatening notes of holiday songs playing in the background and a stalker out to get you.
Generic in all the worst ways, Animal Among Us is poorly executed, feeling like a throwback to the worst of mid 2000’s horror.
Countdown is not aggressively terrible, but it’s life-threateningly dull.
Serial killers depicted in film have taken the industry by storm and became popularized by the audience and their need to question what they know about humanity.
Knife + Heart constantly walks the very fine line between a comedy and a true horror. It at times excels at both, but rarely infuses the two into a coherent film.
This Australian horror has languished in obscurity for years, but a new restoration by Second Sight should make it the genre classic it deserves to be.
The Amityville Murders is a film that should be avoided at all costs. It doesn’t succeed as a horror film, nor as a supernatural thriller.
Dan Gilroy has stepped out of his comfort zone with satirical horror Velvet Buzzsaw – and the results are mixed, to say the least.
Maria Lattila examines how generic slashers actually hide a hugely empowering element, the Final Girls of horror fulfilling and enabling feminine power and potential.
Even the creative use of an iconic object of terror doesn’t help to elevate Scarecrows above any other generic slasher.
It is a shame when a movie like Hell Fest this is let down by the very reason for its existence – a slasher movie is only as strong as its slasher and the fear that slasher creates.
Halloween ends strongly, which always helps, but the picture lacks imagination in too many other areas to have any lasting impact.