By John Corrado We now have the first trailer (and poster) for director Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs, which is also playing in theatres in front of Other Mommy this weekend. This is the latest attempt to reboot this iconic horror franchise, after David Gordon Green’s 2023 legacy sequel Exorcist: Believer fell flat, and the… Read More First Trailer for Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs
By John Corrado We now have a new “official” trailer for Werwulf, the latest film from director Robert Eggers. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe all star in this 14th century werewolf movie, re-teaming with Eggers following their roles in his 2024 vampire film Nosferatu. I’m pretty excited for this one. It looks very… Read More New Trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf
By John Corrado A series of Faustian bargains underpin Italian director Paolo Strippoli’s confidently directed psychological horror movie The Spiral, which is designed to provoke uncomfortable and disturbing moral questions as well as squirms. The film opens on Alice (Romana Maggiora Vergano) in Rome, being paid a visit by her estranged mother Anna (Jasmine Trinca)… Read More #TIFF26 Review: The Spiral (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado In his feature debut River, partially inspired by his 2018 short film In Sound, We Live Forever, director Joshua Giuliano crafts a fun slasher movie built around the deceptively simple yet effective premise of three siblings trapped on a river. The siblings are Lucy (Jane Levy), Carla (Jessica Rothe) and Drew (Max… Read More #TIFF26 Review: River (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado Onslaught is director Adam Wingard’s return to the horror-thriller genre following his forays into monster movie blockbusters with Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. In fact, Onslaught is such a return to form for Wingard that he has said it takes place in the same universe as his… Read More Movie Review: Onslaught
By John Corrado Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the third film from director Jane Schoenbrun, is a tribute to 1980s slasher movies channeled through a meta, queer lens. In this way, Camp Miasma serves as an interesting companion piece to Schoenbrun’s haunting 2023 sophomore film I Saw the TV Glow, which also operated… Read More Movie Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
By John Corrado Eli Roth’s latest bad-taste splatter flick Ice Cream Man is a passion project that the horror filmmaker has been trying to get made for years, and finally had to self-produce under the banner of his new production company The Horror Section. The result is an idiotic horror comedy (?) that is never… Read More Movie Review: Ice Cream Man
By John Corrado After becoming a surprise box office sensation at the start of the summer, director Curry Barker’s breakout horror movie Obsession is now getting a physical media release, including on 4K Ultra HD. The film follows the lonely Bear (Michael Johnston), who uses a “One Wish Willow” to wish that his crush Nikki… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Obsession (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Focus Features has just released the first trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf. This is the filmmaker’s followup to Nosferatu, and he’s tackling werewolf mythology next. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp lead the cast. It looks pretty great. I’ve been a fan of all of Eggers’ films, starting with The Witch… Read More First Trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf
By John Corrado The horror movie Leviticus, which serves as the feature directorial debut of Australian writer-director Adrian Chiarella, plays almost like an explicitly queer take on It Follows, David Robert Mitchell’s STD-themed indie horror flick from 2014. This slow-burn film follows Naim (Joe Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen), two closeted teen boys in rural… Read More Movie Review: Leviticus
By John Corrado A lot has already been made about the fact that Kane Parsons, the director of Backrooms, is only 20-years-old, and for good reason. It’s impressive because this is such an assured feature debut from him, with Parsons showing a clear vision throughout this liminal spaces horror movie. Expanded from the series of… Read More Movie Review: Backrooms
By John Corrado Would you want your crush to love you more than anyone in the world? That’s the question at the centre of writer-director Curry Barker’s new horror movie Obsession, one of the big breakout films from last year’s Midnight Madness section at TIFF. Bear (Michael Johnston) is a love-lorn young adult who wishes… Read More Movie Review: Obsession
By John Corrado The tagline for Mother Mary, the latest film from writer-director David Lowery, is “this is not a ghost story.” It’s a bit of a misnomer, because Mother Mary arguably is one. But it does cleverly differentiate this bold effort from Lowery’s low-key, experimental 2017 film A Ghost Story, an understated gem which… Read More Movie Review: Mother Mary
By John Corrado Alpha is the third feature from French filmmaker Julia Ducournau, whose previous films Raw and Titane both shocked and repulsed audiences while drawing critical acclaim. For Ducournau to follow up a film as thrilling and visionary as her sophomore feature Titane was always going to be a nearly impossible task, especially after… Read More Movie Review: Alpha
By John Corrado The Radio Silence team of co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett return to the world of their 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, a fun sequel that serves as a direct continuation of the first one. As in, this film literally opens right where the… Read More Movie Review: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
By John Corrado Undertone, the creepy, slow-burn directorial debut of Toronto-based filmmaker Ian Tuason, is the latest horror movie being put out by indie powerhouse A24. And it’s the epitome of a Canadian success story, with the distributor picking up the rights for seven figures in a competitive bidding war after Tuason’s film premiered at… Read More Movie Review: Undertone
By John Corrado Ghostface is back in Scream 7, the latest film in the meta slasher movie franchise that revolves around copycat killers putting on the mask to recreate the original murders in Woodsboro, California. I promise not to get into spoilers in this review, but without burying the lede, Scream 7 is fun. This… Read More Movie Review: Scream 7
By John Corrado Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is the sequel to Blumhouse’s 2023 horror hit, which was itself the long-awaited film adaptation of the popular video game series. And the best thing that can be said about these movies, which are both directed by Emma Tammi, is that they really are made for fans… Read More Blu-ray Review: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado What would you do if you found yourself stranded on a desert island with your asshole boss? Now imagine that boss, who has constantly belittled you as an employee, has no survival skills, and now you hold all the power? That’s the basic premise behind Send Help, the new film from director… Read More Movie Review: Send Help
By John Corrado In We Bury the Dead, Australian writer-director Zak Hilditch offers his own take on the zombie movie and survival thriller. The film opens with news reports of a magnetic pulse weapon accidentally being deployed by the United States military during testing, killing half-a-million people in Tasmania. Daisy Ridley, continuing her post Disney… Read More Movie Review: We Bury the Dead
