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Josh Korngut

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Biography:

Josh Korngut is a writer, editor, and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. He's also the managing editor of Dread Central, with additional bylines at Exclaim! Magazine, CBC Life, Pride, and Paste. Check out his popular podcast, ‘Development Hell,’ where he unearths cancelled horror movies, and say hi to him on social media via @joshkorngut.

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Movies TV Shows
Send Help (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Sam Raimi’s ‘Send Help’ is an enjoyable, uneven survival thriller that plays out safer than necessary. ” – Dread Central Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a radically honest discussion of bodily autonomy, with a few genuinely shocking moments sure to leave audiences squealing.” – Dread Central Jan 25, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Nia DaCosta’s '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' dangles some unexpected, much-appreciated humanity amid its punishing terror and nightmarish violence.” – Dread Central Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “‘Primate’ delivers non-stop, joyously nasty animal-attack mayhem.” – Dread Central Jan 10, 2026 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 68% 5/10 EDIT “By the time 100 Nights of Hero reaches its finale, the thrilling visual world and ambitious folktale architecture struggle to overcome narrative drift.” – Exclaim! Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% 2/5 EDIT “‘Keeper’ is a hollow and misguided attempt at using genre to say something meaningful about domestic violence.” – Dread Central Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 6/10 EDIT “Trachtenberg can't quite find balance between sincerity and fan service. ” – Exclaim! Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Like a dazzling, mildly dangerous display of backyard fireworks, Bryan Fuller’s 'Dust Bunny' is charming and stylish gateway horror.” – Dread Central Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2/5 EDIT “Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ feels closer to the bloated, action-heavy failures of Dark Universe than the heartfelt Gothic fantasies we've come to expect from him.” – Dread Central Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% 3/5 EDIT “While Wilson and Farmiga carry ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites,’ the scares are sparse, and the film leans too heavily on conservative ideals.” – Dread Central Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Obsession (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Curry Barker’s 'Obsession' is a fun teen horror movie—if it were infected with rabies, shrieking and foaming at the mouth.” – Dread Central Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Terrestrial (2025) 75% 2.5/5 EDIT “Steve Pink’s ‘Terrestrial’ is both scrappy and effortless, but held back by its rough edges, and thrives on personality before plot or polish.” – Dread Central Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Every Heavy Thing (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Mickey Reece’s Every Heavy Thing feels like watching a lost erotic thriller on VHS that’s been half-taped over with public access specials and late-night infomercials from another dimension.” – Dread Central Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Mother of Flies (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Like a spider in a teacup, ‘Mother of Flies’ is frightening, fragile, and full of life. It’s the triumphant return of horror’s most important dynasty.” – Dread Central Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “‘Weapons’ is shocking, satisfying and certain to surprise even the most jaded of horror fans. ” – Dread Central Jul 28, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% 4/5 EDIT “It's a fun and stylish legacy sequel that makes out with its history in the mirror while carefully carving out an identity of its own. ” – Dread Central Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story (2025) 40% 4/5 EDIT “‘Abraham’s Boys’ is a sun-drenched reinvention of Dracula that's been slow-cooked so carefully it’s practically falling off the bone.” – Dread Central Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Genki Kawamura has crafted a haunting cautionary tale for the emotionally paralyzed, a masterpiece of No Exit Horror and quite possibly the best video game adaptation ever made.” – Dread Central May 24, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “‘Dangerous Animals’ blends slasher tension with creature-feature horror as Jai Courtney gives one of the most exciting unmasked villain performances in years.” – Dread Central May 23, 2025 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% 2/5 EDIT “While Ducournau’s flair for unsettling imagery remains intact, the film’s muddled ethics and misjudged metaphor strip it of the emotional weight it so desperately reaches for.” – Dread Central May 20, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 5/5 EDIT “With his brilliant fourth film 'Eddington,' Ari Aster allows the mask of America’s decency to slip off completely, and what’s revealed beneath is the rotting flesh on the face of the chaotic beast we’ve been becoming for so long. ” – Dread Central May 16, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ pits an uncannily flattened-out Tom Cruise against his most formidable possible foe: the ChatGPT apocalypse.” – Dread Central May 15, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “An existential and gut-drenched horror-comedy that’s unafraid to spotlight the utter insignificance (and sometimes joyful) experience of life.” – Dread Central Feb 22, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “It's a fresh and entertaining twist on the genre that could pave the way for more horror-romantic comedies in the future.” – Dread Central Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Didn't Die (2025) 62% 1.5/5 EDIT “The genre influences in 'Didn't Die' are painfully surface-level, and it never breaks any new ground with its well-worn tropes of zombies and podcasting. ” – Dread Central Jan 31, 2025 Full Review
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