“Control Freak” Review
There’s a better film that is literally itching to get out with Control Freak. The diagnosis is familiar: a horror short given a feature-length extension leads to more expansion by
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“The Parenting” Review
The Parenting presents a premise that could easily become a melodrama or manic comedy of errors. A gay couple plans a weekend getaway with their family present, debating whether to
“The Monkey” (2025) Review
There’s only so many times you can show people dying that horror turns into a farce. From the creative slashing of A Nightmare on Elm Street to the Rube-Goldberg-style traps
“Grafted” (2024) Review
Grafted plays like one of those projects where the final result doesn’t quite resemble the instructions. It takes the skin-tingling grotesqueness of skin-ripping gore and tries to mesh it with
“T Blockers” Review
Here’s the good stuff. Here’s that scrappy, rebellious spirit for the transgender experience we need now more than ever. The cheapness of T Blockers can be felt in its rickety
“Get Away” (2024) Review
Subversion is a tricky thing to inject into a film. Get Away is a film that attempts to surprise with its twist of a folk horror nightmare vacation that is
“Cuckoo” (2024) Review
Sometimes, the right atmosphere can work wonders for a horror idea that can’t quite take flight. That is very much the case with Cuckoo, a film that succeeds at being
“Nosferatu” (2024) Review
Director Robert Eggers always has an ease for the accuracy in how he stages his many historical horrors. His take on Nosferatu is no different, staging the classic Gothic horror
“The Piano Lesson” (2024) Review
Based on the play of the same title, The Piano Lesson is a meaty enough script for the best actors to flex and project. Making his directorial debut, Malcolm Washington
“The Substance” Review
The bluntness of The Substance is so gratuitously forceful that it’s enough to trigger an endorphin effect. It’d have to. The struggles of a world obsessed with beauty for an