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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 76% EDIT “A bigger, broader and gruesomely entertaining variation on its predecessor, following the same basic playbook while including enough embellishments to surprise and delight a savvy audience.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Bodycam (2025) 86% EDIT “One of the nice things about BODYCAM is that it doesn’t waste time with a lot of exposition telling us what we can already figure out on our own.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Mar 14, 2026 Full Review Slanted (2025) 68% EDIT “Wang’s evident intention to create an incisive sociological statement keeps SLANTED grounded in a straightforward reality that’s at odds with its fantastical basic premise.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Mar 13, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% EDIT “At its core, it evokes the fear we’ve all felt hearing mysterious sounds while alone in the house at night — even as it’s best enjoyed and appreciated from a theater seat.” – Fangoria Mar 13, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal hasn’t just taken a big swing here; she has taken a whole baseball game’s worth of big swings. Some of them are bunts and some of them are home runs.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% EDIT “The longer it goes on, the more the strain to offer variations on its now 30-year-old theme shows.” – Fangoria Feb 26, 2026 Full Review This Is Not a Test (2025) 43% EDIT “What it needed, at this point in its particular genre, was either a more adventurous approach to the material or a deeper, fresher dig into the psyches of its young people forced to grow up fast.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 21, 2026 Full Review Psycho Killer (2026) 10% EDIT “A closing credit for additional editing bespeaks a film that went through extensive postproduction travails, and wound up shorn of dramatic nuance and sense.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 79% EDIT “I’ve seen THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, and you, COLD STORAGE, are no RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 63% EDIT “A well-executed example of the Cursed Object formula crossed with FINAL DESTINATION, bringing some style and a little bit of heart to go with its sometimes extreme gore.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) 17% EDIT “The good news is that CHAPTER 3 is something of an improvement on its predecessors; the bad news is that it isn’t nearly enough of one.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 6, 2026 Full Review My Bloody Valentine (1981) 39% EDIT “The victims-to-be are more personable than usual, and the movie also benefits from atmospheric lensing on Nova Scotia locations, not to mention underground in real mines.” – Fangoria Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “Raimi laces this tense emotional rollercoaster with plenty of his trademark aggressive style, employing exaggerated close-ups and baroque visual/editing tricks, and taking every opportunity to play things to the nasty/icky hilt.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 18% EDIT “[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.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Killer Whale (2026) 20% EDIT “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.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% EDIT “Essentially a Syfy movie done slicker, it has just enough scares and shocks to provide a diverting ride through the perils of primate change.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% EDIT “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.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “The result isn’t nearly as funny as the first sequel, ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID, was without trying.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “Fuller deftly tells a child's story in grown-up terms and comes up with a movie that can be enjoyed by adults and older kids alike.” – Fangoria Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% EDIT “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.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Troll 2 (2025) 58% EDIT “Let’s hope for something more figuratively as well as literally groundbreaking if this cinematic monsterverse winds up becoming a, ahem, trollogy.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 49% EDIT “Clearly, this team knows what scares you, and they all work in perfect concert to deliver it.” – Fangoria Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Boorman and the Devil (2025) EDIT “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.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Self-Help (2025) 82% EDIT “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.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 31, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “Comic outrageousness is often more attention-getting than a straight face, but the latter approach pays off in From Beyond, which plumbs deeper than Re-Animator did and pays off in both dramatic intensity and frights aplenty.” – Fangoria Oct 20, 2025 Full Review
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