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Thrash (2026) 40% EDIT “Getting past the fact that if you’re inclined to watch THRASH, you’ve probably seen this idea at least once before, it’s a couple of cuts above its many, many lower-budget brethren.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “The pair [of lead actors] succeed in holding our attention through to the gruesome end, even as the emphasis on the cruelty they personally experience and inflict ultimately overwhelms the dissection of our collective fascination with violence and death.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Obsession (2025) 95% EDIT “Barker taps into universally relatable emotions, hooking the audience into the central situation before spinning it off in supernaturally chilling directions.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Mar 31, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 63% EDIT “It’s the sort of movie that makes for a great grindhouse-esque trailer, but doesn’t fill in the details between bursts of showy violence with anything terribly memorable.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 74% 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) 88% 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) 69% 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) 74% 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) 30% 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) 42% 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) 9% 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) 80% 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) 64% 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) 47% 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
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