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Wicked Horror

Wicked Horror is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Joey Keogh.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Killer Whale (2026) Joey Keogh A bafflingly unoriginal and wildly unconvincing tale of two women fighting for their lives against a murderous Orca.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Hold the Fort (2025) Joey Keogh Hold the Fort might be small but it’s mighty, making it abundantly clear Bagley is one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers working in the indie horror space today.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Joey Keogh I Know What You Did Last Summer isn’t an untouchable franchise – far from it, given the “Ben’s son!” and Jack Black dreadlocks of it all – [...] but, on this evidence, there are some exciting places it could go next.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) Joey Keogh Shorn of the self-consciousness and near-constant anachronistic needle drops of its predecessors [...] Prom Queen is free to just be a down and dirty, proudly eighties-style slasher complete with thrills, kills, and plenty of bloody spills.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Into the Deep (2025) Joey Keogh Scout Taylor Compton is too good for Into the Deep. [...] Despite [her] skilled performance, the movie rapidly sinks.
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Damned (2024) Joey Keogh The Damned is sparse, a shrewdly observed chiller ... [with] much to explore in the darkness.
Posted Jan 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Invisible Raptor (2024) Joey Keogh Seems to lose its nerve once the titular beastie is on the loose. There’s a sense of reluctance that makes it tough to give in completely to The Invisible Raptor’s wacky charms, but the movie is certainly entertaining for the most part.
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
He Never Left (2023) Joey Keogh [Colin] Cunningham, a jobbing actor for over 30 years, makes absolute mincemeat out of a role that in less capable hands would come off grating, even downright insufferable.
Posted Dec 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Sleep (2024) Joey Keogh Sleep cleverly plays off a lot of new parent fears and could easily be taken as a metaphor for the kind of intrusive thoughts that plague new moms, in particular.
Posted Oct 01, 2024  Edit critic review
We Are Zombies (2023) Joey Keogh We Are Zombies feels simultaneously overstuffed and undercooked, but there’s no denying it’s good fun while it’s on.
Posted Aug 13, 2024  Edit critic review
The Exorcism (2024) Joey Keogh The Exorcism may not be rewriting the rule-book for religious horror [but] it gets more right than wrong. And Crowe is flawless in the leading role.
Posted Jun 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Arcadian (2024) Joey Keogh The CG may not be wholly convincing but it’s effective enough to make the monsters feel like a genuine threat and Cage, Martell, and Jenkins fully sell us that they’re in near constant peril.
Posted Apr 12, 2024  Edit critic review
The Camp Host (2024) Joey Keogh With a fascinating, fresh take on current events and a keen eye for how to mount a scare and a laugh, alongside giving up-and-coming talent the proper space to shine, McComas stands out as one of the most exciting new voices in horror.
Posted Mar 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Night Swim (2024) Joey Keogh A woeful, inexplicably earnest horror movie that for some reason expects us to care more about the travails of a barely sketched, milquetoast white family than plunging us headfirst into the murky depths to have some real fun.
Posted Jan 12, 2024  Edit critic review
The Sacrifice Game (2023) Joey Keogh Much like The Ranger, Wexler keeps things clear, concise, and female-focused, delivering a superbly chilly festive treat that avoids the typical cliches but still feels like the kind of movie you’ll want to revisit during the next holiday season.
Posted Dec 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Suitable Flesh (2023) Joey Keogh Suitable Flesh is a great way to spend 100 minutes if you’re in the mood for something messier with two beloved actors at the top of their game running the show.
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Saw X (2023) Joey Keogh Coupled with the bizarrely ill-judged attempt at sentimentality and the fact the traps themselves are dull and nonsensical, there’s really nothing to recommend this movie to anyone besides those who've already been converted by Kramer’s words and actions.
Posted Oct 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Shaky Shivers (2022) Joey Keogh Shaky Shivers is goofy, silly, zany, and impossible to resist. In fact, what’s most charming about the film is just how confident Kang is in the material – enough to pop up in a hilariously unflattering cameo that truly has to be seen to be believed.
Posted Sep 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Perpetrator (2023) Joey Keogh We can’t all be nice girls and, as Jennifer Reeder’s latest feminist-horror Perpetrator asserts, we may not want to be either.
Posted Sep 04, 2023  Edit critic review
Sympathy for the Devil (2023) Joey Keogh It quickly becomes clear that Sympathy for the Devil isn’t going anywhere, almost as though the filmmakers are making it up as they go along.
Posted Jul 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Quicksand (2023) Joey Keogh Quicksand works enormously well as a self-contained horror movie in the vein of something like Fall, but it’s also a very clever, and consistently compelling, relationship drama.
Posted Jul 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Brooklyn 45 (2023) Joey Keogh This is a claustrophobic chamber piece, utterly character-driven, and confined to a single room for the most part. Thankfully, there’s so much gorgeous detail that you don’t mind being stuck there, especially with these people.
Posted Jun 13, 2023  Edit critic review
The Wrath of Becky (2023) Joey Keogh As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, loaded with laughs and shockingly gory set-pieces, many of which exist purely in the protagonist’s twisted imagination. ... Hopefully, some real-life Nazis will discover [it] and be really mad.
Posted Jun 02, 2023  Edit critic review
The Black Demon (2023) Joey Keogh A whole lot of talking with very little shark action.
Posted May 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Sick of Myself (2022) Joey Keogh Although this kind of female protagonist is one we’ve seen elsewhere, there’s something about Signe that’s so monstrous, so confronting, and so utterly self-serving that she could only have emerged at this precise moment in time.
Posted Apr 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Malum (2023) Joey Keogh It may be more blunt force more so than scalpel sharp, but Malum is one hell of a journey (pun very much intended), with more in common with Baskin than Assault on Precinct 13–and that’s certainly a reason to give praise to the dark lord.
Posted Apr 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Unwelcome (2022) Joey Keogh The Brits are the heroes and, in a movie set in Ireland that uses our mythology as a paper-thin backdrop for meaningless violence, this is a cardinal sin.
Posted Mar 15, 2023  Edit critic review
M3GAN (2022) Joey Keogh As much fun as it is, when it comes to modern killer doll movies, M3GAN is a major step up from Annabelle, but still can’t compete with the granddaddy of them all. [Chucky] would never willingly leave that stupid kid alive.
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
The Murder Podcast (2021) Joey Keogh The Murder Podcast is, in essence, like all the best podcasts; it’s smart, funny, unique, and crucially doesn’t overstay its welcome.
Posted Jan 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge (2022) Joey Keogh Throwing everything at the screen to see what sticks has tripped many a filmmaker up in the past, but Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns have made an art-form out of it. Long may Rad Chad’s reign of terror continue.
Posted Dec 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Influencer (2023) Joey Keogh This is a brutal and incisive look at social media addiction but the scariest thing about Influencer might just be how it reflects our own online obsession back at us.
Posted Dec 23, 2022  Edit critic review
The Leech (2022) Joey Keogh The Leech doesn’t unfold as you’d expect it to. Even the pacing, although deliberate, places the weight on seemingly innocuous moments. ... By the end, you’ll be left wondering not just who the title refers to, but also what was real and not.
Posted Dec 16, 2022  Edit critic review
A Wounded Fawn (2022) Joey Keogh By utilizing Greek mythology to contextualize Bruce’s crimes and later violently punish him for them, Stevens showcases how little progress has truly been made outside of the stories we tell ourselves.
Posted Dec 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Something In The Dirt (2022) Joey Keogh There’s a sense that a sharper edit might have made Something in the Dirt land a little harder – at just under two hours, it’s definitely too long – but the story is so expansive, it’s understandable the duo wanted the space to let it breathe.
Posted Nov 04, 2022  Edit critic review
To the Moon (2021) Joey Keogh Deceptively clever and strangely alluring, To the Moon is difficult to work out, which was probably [Scott] Friend’s intention, but every detail is considered, every moment charged with meaning.
Posted Oct 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Raven's Hollow (2022) Joey Keogh Without any prior understanding of Edgar Allan Poe's work, you might get less out of Raven’s Hollow on an intellectual basis, but the movie is an entertaining and spooky slice of supernatural horror in its own right, too.
Posted Oct 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Maneater (2022) Joey Keogh The final, brazened reference to Jaws is wild considering just how incompetent Maneater is in comparison, in every conceivable way. Seriously, this is a How Did This Get Made? episode waiting to happen.
Posted Sep 01, 2022  Edit critic review
When I Consume You (2021) Joey Keogh As with Blackshear’s other films, your mileage will vary depending on how patient you are with the deathly slow pacing and little to no explanation of what’s really going on.
Posted Sep 01, 2022  Edit critic review
Glorious (2022) Joey Keogh If it doesn’t necessarily all hang together in the end, Glorious is a reasonably diverting, and satisfyingly bloody, enterprise that bodes well for McKendry’s future career above all else.
Posted Sep 01, 2022  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Joey Keogh The violence of attention is a key concern here, likewise the idea that our biggest threats could be hiding in plain sight, but it’s worth noting that Nope also functions as a thrilling summer blockbuster in its own right too.
Posted Aug 08, 2022  Edit critic review
The Reef: Stalked (2022) Joey Keogh Once it gets going and the four main stars are plonked down in the middle of the ocean with nowhere to, er, swim, The Reef: Stalked becomes a fast-paced, entertaining, and surprisingly scary little creature feature.
Posted Aug 01, 2022  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2022) Joey Keogh A sleek, angular film, which takes its time unravelling the central conceit just as Margaret loses her grip alongside it. The gory denouement will likely be the biggest talking point... but the haunting look in Hall’s eyes is even more memorable.
Posted Aug 01, 2022  Edit critic review
The Black Phone (2021) Joey Keogh For much of the movie’s first act, we’re subjected to horrific violence against children, but once the actual child murderer shows up, the brutality comes to an abrupt halt as Finney and The Grabber engage in an increasingly tiresome back and forth.
Posted Jul 04, 2022  Edit critic review
The Aviary (2022) Joey Keogh A character-driven story about the lingering hold being part of a cult has on its victims, and how tough it is to break free.
Posted May 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Cellar (2022) Joey Keogh In a world of cheap jump scares and terrible CGI apparitions, Muldowney's film is a handsomely crafted, and consistently blood-chilling reminder of what an old-school horror story can really achieve, when given the room to breathe.
Posted Apr 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Bull (2021) Joey Keogh Neil Maskell's performance is truly astounding. He inhabits the role of Bull to an increasingly disconcerting extent, communicating a lifetime of hurt and anger even while torturing and killing people.
Posted Apr 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Barbarians (2021) Joey Keogh A slick, beautifully shot, and deviously unpredictable story of privileged, out of touch jerks learning the error of their ways in the most horrifying manner possible -- and that's even before any bloodshed occurs.
Posted Apr 07, 2022  Edit critic review
X (2022) Joey Keogh Ti West blends old school homage with modern horror thrills to craft a blackly comic and surprisingly poignant tale loaded with scares and gut-churning gore.
Posted Apr 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Take Back the Night (2021) Joey Keogh For better and indeed worse, Take Back the Night is a painfully, unflinchingly honest depiction of how impossible it is simply to be believed as a victim of violence.
Posted Mar 07, 2022  Edit critic review
7/10
Student Body (2022) Joey Keogh Despites its flaws, this is a tough film not to love for its scrappy energy alone. All eyes will be on what Lee Ann Kurr does next, hopefully with a bigger canvas.
Posted Feb 15, 2022  Edit critic review
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