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INFLUENCERS MOVIE REVIEW Smash that like button and don’t forget to subscribe to that hashtag #MurderBeautifulPeopleOnVacation! Whether you follow on Instagram, Twitter rebrands, TikTok, or are over the hill and on Facebook, Influencers is that Gen X to Z killing spree goodness you need to close out your holiday shuffle as we all dance into […]

V/H/S HALLOWEEN MOVIE REVIEW Close down that YouTube browser and put the leftover creepy pasta in the fridge. The time of year has arrived for short form horror films in a nice packaged anthology! Presenting the eighth film in the franchise, V/H/S Halloween. A collection of scary cinema icons and prospects present six chilling tales […]

HOUSE ON EDEN MOVIE REVIEW All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray. I went to a church, and it was so spoooooky SCARY! Halloween is coming and Shudder is ready to assume its final form. Director, writer, and actres Kris Collins finds the camera and supplies the footage for a haunted house […]

NIGHT OF THE REAPER MOVIE REVIEW Once upon a time we all had a babysitter and once upon a time within that once upon a time we all watched babysitters get massacred by a maniac around Halloween. From the network that brought you such nostalgia as “Kids on bikes solving mysteries” and “Your ghost isn’t […]

HELL MOTEL SERIES REVIEW It’s a dark and stormy night and you’ll never make it to your final destination on these roads. Better check into a motel for the night. It would be quite unfortunate if that was your final destination after all! What you never know about these seedy looking places just off the […]

MONSTER ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Secluded island paradise? Yes please? Oh wait a sec, it’s in the middle of WWII and instead of a getaway you’re a marooned castaway, chained to an enemy soldier. Maybe not such a great vacation. What could be worse than that? How about a creature from the black lagoon? Monster Island […]

AZRAEL MOVIE REVIEW Some time after the Rapture, we find civilization in disarray and no one can speak. Azrael follows the titular character (Samara Weaving) and her partner Kenan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), as they escape imprisonment from a female-led community of religious zealots. As she’s recaptured, she is due to be sacrificed by an evil entity, […]

DANCING VILLAGE: THE CURSE BEGINS MOVIE REVIEW Lyall Watson once said “Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives […]

IN A VIOLENT NATURE MOVIE REVIEW What do you get when you combine Friday the 13th, the serene cinematography of Terrence Malick, and the brooding dread of It Follows? Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature of course! The film, literally, follows the undead murderer Johnny on a slow and methodical rampage through the woods. He […]

YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME MOVIE REVIEW Spring into your horror binges with every fright fanatics favorite streaming service…Shudder presents from writer/director Indianna Bell with co-Director Josiah Allen, You’ll Never Find Me. Patrick (Brendan Rock) lives alone in the deepest darkest corner of the trailer park. One stormy night, a young woman in need of shelter […]

SUITABLE FLESH MOVIE REVIEW Who among us hasn’t had the dream of swapping bodies with someone? In fact, we’re all friends here. Let’s be honest with each other. Who among us hasn’t had at least one dream where we specifically swap bodies with Heather Graham? No? Only Jordan, Lewayne, and T.C. are willing to admit […]

HELL HOUSE LLC ORIGINS: THE CARMICHAEL MANOR REVIEW Oh so very spooky scary month is back and when the witching hour is upon us and theaters are shutting down for the night, a great honoured tradition is to gather up old trashy stabby horror film franchises and binge till morning. Long running found footage film […]

SALOUM MOVIE REVIEW Coming straight outta West Africa, Saloum starts with a coup d’etat, a drug lord, and 3 mercenaries tasked with with transporting said drug lord back to safety. By the 2nd act, shit flips on its head. Written and directed by Jean Luc Herbulot, Saloum is a horror/thriller that never relents. What should […]

SO VAM MOVIE REVIEW When a Shudder movie starts with a trigger warning, you know you’re in for… an indie LGBTQ+ drama with vampires? Kurt (Xai) can’t wait to run away and become a famous drag performer. But, he’s stuck in some part of Adelaide, South Australia (which, admittedly, has a checkered past regarding LGBTQ+ […]

GLORIOUS MOVIE REVIEW *Cue 90’s sitcom theme…* This is Wes seems like a really nice guy, his girlfriend left him, now he’s wondering why. Left empty and hurting, he’s starting to cry. He buries his demons with a bottle of rye, passes out at a rest stop, just letting it lie. He wakes up hungover, […]

THE REEF: STALKED MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Andrew Traucki returns to the water with somewhat of a successor sequel to his 2010 film The Reef with The Reef: Stalked. Now streaming on Shudder, this new shark horror film is the Jaws-light summer thriller to once again re-ignite your fear to get back in the water. After […]

MOLOCH MOVIE REVIEW Ah, Holland, the land of tulips, higher scores in all measures of quality of life than the U.S. and… generational curses? Betriek (Sallie Harmsen), a widowed mother, who lives in a village near the edge of a peat bog, is surprised one night to discover an intruder in the home she shares […]

VIRUS 32 MOVIE REVIEW You can lead a zombie to water but you can’t make him swim. Also, you can lead a promising director to a rage zombie movie but you can’t…wait, maybe you CAN still make a good zombie movie. A deft hand and great use of tension and moody lighting are the keys […]

NIGHT’S END MOVIE REVIEW You ever get that feeling you’re being watched? Not because you run a daily vlog about the supernatural, but because you have an axe wielding specter in your apartment! If you answered “yes” to the question, then welcome to Night’s End, directed by Jennifer Reeder. The story follows Ken; a divorced, […]

THE CELLAR MOVIE REVIEW Ancient mansions in Ireland I suspect hold all kind of secrets as a general rule. That being said, usually you can’t just completely disappear in them and get caught in an alternate hell dimension. But Keira’s teen daughter Ellie manages it early on in this new horror film The Cellar. Elisha […]

THE BUNKER GAME MOVIE REVIEW If you’re not in the know, LARPing is Live Action Role Playing. If you’ve ever seen Role Models, starring Paul Rudd, or Marvel’s Hawkeye series, you’ve seen a fantasy scenario of a LARP. People dress up in costumes and play their characters, affect voices, don weapons, and wear detailed costumes […]

THE SEED MOVIE REVIEW Welcome back to The Screener Squad, where today, Matt, Lewayne, Trevor, and Chad take a much-needed break to a secluded mansion in the desert. Today they review The Seed, written and directed by Sam Walker. The film follows three friends and social media influencers (Deidre, Heather, and Charlotte) on a vacation, […]

ALL THE MOONS MOVIE REVIEW The new horror film All The Moons presents a character who as a child gains immortal life and a terrible case of buyer’s remorse. Added to Shudder’s lineup of award-winning festival films, All The Moons features breathtaking cinematography and a take on the idea of an eternal existence that comments […]

SLAPFACE MOVIE REVIEW Nothing says love like slapping someone in the face as hard as you can, right? I mean it’s not like it’s a sign of generational violence, or likely to provoke a shadowy witch(?) to murder a bunch of people, or anything, is it? The Screener Squad examines those very relationship dynamics in […]

THE LAST THING MARY SAW MOVIE REVIEW In the new Shudder title written and directed by Edoardo Vitaletti, The Last Thing Mary Saw, we follow Mary (Stefanie Scott). In 1843 she is being investigated for the mysterious death of her family matriarch after Mary’s own family had attempted to bring an end to her romance […]

THE RUNNER MOVIE REVIEW Boy Harsher is an American electronic music duo combining the vocals of Jae Matthews and producing savvy of Augustus Muller. They call themselves Dark Wave and consider themselves founders of Minimal Synth. “The Runner (Original Soundtrack)” is the fifth release from the band and is not a traditional album. It’s the […]

SEE FOR ME MOVIE REVIEW See For Me, written by Adam Yorke/Tommy Gushue, and directed by Randall Okita, is a story about Sophie. She’s a former athlete whose dreams were crushed by a medical condition, causing her permanent blindness. She makes money by doing odd jobs for rich people, and currently finds herself cat-sitting in […]

THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST MOVIE REVIEW Directed/Co-Written by Dasha Nekrasova (“Red Scare”), “The Scary of Sixty-First” is a horror mystery that finds two friends, Addie (Betsey Brown) and Noelle (Madeline Quinn), apartment hunting in New York City. They find a beautiful place but there’s something about it that seems a bit off. Eventually, with the […]

DEATH VALLEY MOVIE REVIEW A squad of mercenaries sent in to extract a scientist from a secured bunker/lab, while fighting off opposing forces, a horrific creature, and infected humans, unravels a twisty conspiracy involving weaponized science, and maybe something supernatural. On which system did you play this video game? Trick question… it’s not a game. […]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR MOVIE REVIEW Eva is a paraplegic ex-dancer that is gifted an advent calendar from her bestie who scored it from a weird shop in Munich on a lark. (Don’t get objects from weird shops while on vacation, just don’t do it!) Unbeknownst to them, this calendar will make them rue the day […]

HORROR NOIRE MOVIE REVIEW You may not know this (heavy sarcasm)… but America has a messy history when it comes to giving minorities “equitable treatment,” and that’s stating the facts mildly. “Horror Noire” (based on a book which inspired a documentary) is an anthology of 6 short stories, from black directors and screenwriters, all revolving […]

THE MEDIUM MOVIE REVIEW From director Banjong Pisanthanakun (“Shutter”) and producer Na Hong-jin (“The Wailing”) comes “The Medium”, a found footage horror movie about a documentary film crew following a shaman in the Isan region of Thailand. The shaman Nim is the latest woman in her family to be chosen as the medium for a […]

V/H/S 94 MOVIE REVIEW The popular ‘found footage’ anthology series returns with four new horror shorts (plus a wraparound segment, of course) directed by some leading voices in modern horror and some up and comers. We get storm sewer dwelling rat men that are MUCH more nightmarish then you’re probably imagining, a lone woman working […]

MARTYRS LANE MOVIE REVIEW If you have a yung’un comin’ of age and you want to start bringing ’em into the world of spooky movies or if you’re a fan of the lightly scary but big on atmosphere gothicy ghost stories, Shudder has a new entry just for you. “Martyrs Lane” follows a ten year […]

KANDISHA MOVIE REVIEW From director/writer team Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (the ones who brought you the truly disturbing 2007 horror classic “Inside”) comes this new tale of a vengeful spirit killing in spectacularly gory ways the objects of their venom. But this is no ordinary tale of a vengeful spirit killing in spectacularly gory […]

THE CALL MOVIE REVIEW In a small town somewhere in the 80s, four teens torment an elderly woman at night, throwing rocks through her windows. Edith Cranston (Lin Shaye) formerly ran a child care service out of her voluminous home but when one of her charges, the younger sister of one of the vandalizing teens, […]

VICIOUS FUN MOVIE REVIEW This was not exactly my experience of what it was like to be a huge horror nerd in the 80s. For me it was reading and re-reading Fangoria, and dreaming about being a bad-ass final lad confronting serial killing monsters. For Joel, who writes for the Fangoria stand-in mag in “Vicious […]

AN UNQUIET GRAVE MOVIE REVIEW Jamie misses his wife. A lot. A WHOLE WHOLE lot. She died about a year before the beginning of the film in a tragic car accident. She also left behind a twin sister, Ava, who also mourns her loss, albeit, maybe not to the same level of wackadoodle as Jamie. […]

SUPERDEEP MOVIE REVIEW It’s the early 80s and the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A female Russian scientist with a history of ethically dubious methods is coerced by the Soviet military into visiting a remote facility to study a mysterious contagion, which the military naturally wants to weaponize. No, we’re not talking […]

CAVEAT MOVIE REVIEW From first time feature director/writer Damian McCarthy comes this creepy and unsettling tale of mental illness, murder, labyrinthine decaying buildings, and the most evil looking rabbit in history. Jonathan French plays Issac, a man who is hired to keep watch over a young mentally ill woman whose father had recently died and […]

SKULL: THE MASK MOVIE REVIEW In this Brazilian mega-gore fest, a cursed mask is being sought by a rich German working for a Chinese conglomerate (?), and a priest and guerilla fighter who alternately crave and fear it’s rumored powers. The mask itself has its own thoughts on the matter as it’s not very long […]

CREEPSHOW SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Quick, under the blankets! The ghoul is back with the second season of “Creepshow” on Shudder and the Screener Squad is here with all the gory details. The beloved franchise that was built on camp, comedy and all things that go bump in the night is back with more famous/infamous […]

THE RECKONING MOVIE REVIEW The director of “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent” (and also the execrable recent “Hellboy”) along with his fiance, the #metoo current toppler of old powerful hollywood moguls, Charlotte Kirk, bring you this story of witchcraft. Kirk plays a woman who after her husband dies of the plague, is accused by a […]

FRIED BARRY MOVIE REVIEW Barry’s a gross, creepy, mean-spirited, strung-out asshole. Fortunately for the rest of the world, he gets abducted by aliens. Unfortunately, they return him…Now, he’s a gross, creepy, mean-spirited, strung-out asshole piloted by one of the aliens, who steers Barry through the seediest sides of Cape Town on a series of drug-fueled, […]

DEADHOUSE DARK SERIES REVIEW This collection of six short films are gathered together under a single banner, telling stories at least tangentially related (sometimes) to modern technology and sorta at points lap each other. Ok, so lukewarm intro, I know, and I’m the first to admit that the short film horror format rarely works for […]

BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL REVIEW Shudder exclusive “The Boys from County Hell” is a horror-comedy with a uniquely Irish twist on the vampire genre. Six Mile Hill is a remote village whose only claim to fame is that Bram Stoker once spent the night there while researching vampires for his classic novel, Dracula. According to […]

THE BANISHING MOVIE REVIEW Based extremely loosely on the hauntings at Borley Rectory, often referred to as ‘the most haunted house in England”, this Shudder original follows Marianne, a ‘fallen’ woman who, along with her young child she had out of wedlock, was ‘saved’ by her new husband, the Reverend Linus. Assigned the palatial MORLEY […]

THE POWER MOVIE REVIEW While at first glance, this horror film’s generic sounding title elicits a bit of a shrug, it’s considerably more insidious and clever than that: The Power has multiple meanings in this 1970’s in England during electricity blackouts, new nurse’s first night in a crumbling and very haunted hospital movie. Just the […]

VIOLATION MOVIE REVIEW Miriam is not doing well. Hardly surprising given that she has lost the feeling of connection she once had with her sister, her marriage is fading, and her sister’s husband is getting closer to her than she wants. What’s a girl to do but perform an extended all-but-movie-length murder and body disposal? […]

SLAXX MOVIE REVIEW Libby (Romane Denis) just got her dream job at her favorite trendy mall store just in time for the special event lock-down release party for their new clothing line of self-adjusting jeans. The dream quickly becomes a nightmare when the titular “Slaxx” begin murdering the staff. So, it’s up to Libby and […]