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Return to Silent Hill
(2026)
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Michael Gingold
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[The movie] plays like the most simplistic kind of video game, carrying us from one gnarly encounter to another without giving us an emotional connection to what’s going on.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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Killer Whale
(2026)
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Michael Gingold
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KILLER WHALE doesn’t come up with enough inventive developments once the situation is established, and the CGI used to create the environment isn’t quite convincing, which is a distraction throughout.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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Primate
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Essentially a Syfy movie done slicker, it has just enough scares and shocks to provide a diverting ride through the perils of primate change.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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Michael Gingold
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Carnage and mayhem aren't WE BURY THE DEAD's focus or endgame...there's a respect for the dead, and the tragedy of both their passing and their resurrection, that’s uncommon for the genre.
Posted Jan 03, 2026
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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The result isn’t nearly as funny as the first sequel, ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID, was without trying.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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An improvement on the original in every way, showcasing stronger filmmaking and production values and replacing crude psychopathology with a somewhat more layered characterization of its Santa-dressed serial killer.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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Troll 2
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Let’s hope for something more figuratively as well as literally groundbreaking if this cinematic monsterverse winds up becoming a, ahem, trollogy.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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Boorman and the Devil
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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They say no one tries to make a bad film, and BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL exemplifies that idea; everyone involved worked hard, at the top of their craft, and the doc is entirely sympathetic to them for it.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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Self-Help
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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It’s more dramatically oriented than an all-out horror show (though the scary stuff definitely lands), and also more psychologically ambitious than the Bloomquists’ previous movies.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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The Astronaut
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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What’s missing for most of the running time is a sense that movie is about anything more than it appears on the surface.
Posted Oct 18, 2025
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New Group
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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It’s a most entertaining slice of weirdness...braced by an underpinning of social commentary that supports and enhances its bizarre visual and narrative pleasures.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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It isn’t about upping the body count in an attempt to outdo its predecessor’s thrills and chills, but digging deeper into the psyches of its two troubled youths.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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Vicious
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Even with its problems, VICIOUS is further confirmation of Bertino’s skill at tightening the screws on both his protagonists and his audiences.
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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Beast of War
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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It's a by now familiar but still effectively elemental survival situation, one that Roache-Turner wrings for both interpersonal tension and toothy thrills.
Posted Oct 11, 2025
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Bone Lake
(2024)
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Michael Gingold
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Morgan and Friedlander deliciously turn the screws, lacing the gory goings-on with a generous helping of black humor...the actors commit to the savage/survival sides of their roles as fully as they do to their variously flawed characters.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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Dead Lover
(2025)
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Joshua Polanski
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Even without the scratch-off cards that the audience can scratch and sniff during a film, the on-screen images are pungent on their own.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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Karmadonna
(2025)
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Joshua Polanski
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[Aleksandar] Radivojević has quickly established himself as one of the world’s most obscene filmmakers. If this appeals to you, you already know who you are. Everyone else should stay clear.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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The Strangers: Chapter 2
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Provides so little in the way of explanations or any other satisfaction that with the trilogy closer on the way next year, even the most curious franchise fans have no reason to see it.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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The Toxic Avenger
(2023)
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Michael Gingold
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It’s Troma standards writ with a larger budget, and Blair and his team bring an advanced level of technical accomplishment while maintaining the spirit of the source.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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Queens of the Dead
(2025)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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It is legitimately exciting that there is another Romero picking up the torch of horror film. Tina has wowed with Queens of the Dead, and we look forward to her career lurching forward from here.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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Sugar Rot
(2024)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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Putting blood, sugar, sex and punk into a blender, and then rubbing it all over a naked body in ecstasy, is the closest approximation I can think of for the experience of watching Sugar Rot.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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Lurker
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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There’s almost no violence in LURKER; the damage its people do to one another is emotional, but no less unnerving.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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Sweetness
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Higgins...is here a stronger director than a writer, and her confident handling of the material—and excellent choice of leading lady—carry SWEETNESS over the bumps in its narrative.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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It Ends
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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IT ENDS is existential horror at its most relatable and engrossing, taking us on a trip that has us as anxious about its endgame as the characters are.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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Anything That Moves
(2025)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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A prime example of a filmmaker beginning to settle into their own voice in his sophomore film. Phillips builds on his visual style and storytelling skills and delivers a film more accessible, more polished and more naked (literally) than before.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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Weapons
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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WEAPONS confirms Cregger as a major talent on the horror scene, one with an original vision and a commitment to character and the pleasures of storytelling as well as scaring the hell out of us.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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Together
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Even with all the physical warping and fusing—and the extreme measures the couple ultimately undertake to free themselves from it—it’s the emotional dysfunction, as perfectly performed by Franco and Brie, that truly makes TOGETHER land.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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Mother of Flies
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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On every level, MOTHER OF FLIES evinces a high level of care and thought that the Adamses have put into the project, meshing personal pain with supernatural terror to conjure up something resonant and chilling.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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The whole movie [is] so dependent on nostalgia, at the expense of any meaningful variations on the themes and plotting it’s revisiting from the popular 1997 film.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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4/5
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40 Acres
(2024)
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Carolyn Mauricette
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It’s worth seeing 40 ACRES not only for a well-executed thriller and its 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but also to bolster people of color to support one another.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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There are only fleeting attempts at depth and meaning in REBIRTH’s characterizations...it is [director Gareth] Edwards’ achievement that he keeps the excitement and fear factor cooking nonetheless.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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While keeping the bulk of the focus on the uninfected people and their emotional travails, Boyle and Garland haven’t skimped on the genuinely horrific and shocking moments and setpieces.
Posted Jun 20, 2025
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Dangerous Animals
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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As the title hints, it's a human who's the deadliest species of all, as embodied by an actor who sinks his teeth into his role with a brio that any shark would envy.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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It's Hawkins and the Philippous' attention to Laura’s character that makes the film tragic and heartbreaking as well as horrifying.
Posted May 30, 2025
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Fear Street: Prom Queen
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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By now, there have been almost as many 21st-century homages to '80s slasher films as there were '80s slasher films, and the form requires a lot more imagination and cleverness than is on view here.
Posted May 26, 2025
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Chain Reactions
(2024)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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Chain Reactions does not try to be anything it is not. It lets its interview subjects take their time and speak their mind. It is not trying to break any news or create new conspiracy theories. It is just five smart people talking about a great film.
Posted May 09, 2025
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Clown in a Cornfield
(2025)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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Delivering an enjoyable, bloody, and sometimes funny horror film is no small feat. Though Clown in a Cornfield never strives to grow beyond its foundation, it does a sound job within that space.
Posted May 09, 2025
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Touch Me
(2025)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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Touch Me is certainly not for everyone. But for those who love irreverent horror comedies, charismatic cult leaders and a filmmaker with a strong voice, it’ll do just fine.
Posted May 01, 2025
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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Not nearly as ambitious or as polished as Cronenberg typically delivers, The Shrouds is still a disquieting film from one of the best filmmakers working today.
Posted Apr 21, 2025
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Sinners
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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It masterfully evokes a past time through a modern lens and combines a deeply human story with jolts of the supernatural.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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Drop
(2025)
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Deirdre Crimmins
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Drop is fun and fast, with smart characters and a great performance from Fahy. Though it certainly is not perfect, it moves so quickly that you might never notice the faults.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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The Protos Experiment
(2024)
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Michael Gingold
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[The filmmakers’] emphasis remains on mood and tension rather than tech gimmickry...their imagination is expressed in the way they elicit their strange and oppressive world on a very modest budget.
Posted Apr 07, 2025
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Hell of a Summer
(2023)
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Michael Gingold
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HELL OF A SUMMER feels like it’s tackling the masked-psycho genre from a distance... The tropes are present and accounted for, but little is done to either freshen them up or send them up.
Posted Apr 05, 2025
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American Psycho
(2000)
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Shannon McGrew
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Though many look at Bateman’s character as a caricature of the ‘90s stereotypical male, it’s not far off from how some men still act today... Mary Harron directed this film in a way that perfectly captures what many women encounter on a daily basis.
Posted Apr 02, 2025
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Screamboat
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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[It] doesn’t do enough with the possibilities of truly turning a family favorite on its (severed) head. For the most part, the villain could have been anybody or anything, and the movie would have played out the same way.
Posted Apr 02, 2025
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Head Like a Hole
(2024)
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Michael Gingold
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[The filmmakers] accumulate the unsettling details gradually, making some of them pretty funny as well... HEAD LIKE A HOLE is the very definition of making the most of limited means.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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The Ugly Stepsister
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Blichfeldt is able to pointedly and scarily address her of-the-moment themes without breaking the finely crafted period spell her movie casts.
Posted Mar 26, 2025
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Locked
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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It helps that LOCKED has as its lead Bill Skarsgård, just the right live-wire actor for this situation.
Posted Mar 21, 2025
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Heart Eyes
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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What it does have is the combination of sparky, snarky dialogue and brutal kills that marked the SCREAM franchise...Some of those lines are quite funny, and the murders are done up with plenty of impactful gore effects.
Posted Feb 07, 2025
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Michael Gingold
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Perkins manages the not inconsiderable trick of keeping us invested with the seriousness of Hal’s plight while fully enjoying the over-the-top destruction of a number of innocent victims.
Posted Feb 06, 2025
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