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Official synopsis Gator Face follows a group of friends whose sun-soaked Florida vacation takes a dark turn when they become prey to a sinister cult that sacrifices its victims to an alligator god. Far from the carefree escape they had planned, the friends are drawn deeper into an isolated world governed by ritual and violence, forcing them into a desperate fight to survive both the cult and the deadly creature at the center of its beliefs. Review Writer/director Padraig Reynolds’ Gator Face combines masked slasher mayhem with creature feature carnage. Fear-fare fanatics who love their horror brutal and at a relentless pace are going to have a field day, but many viewers will ultimately feel like they got kicked where it hurts most. The editing on alligator attacks is great, with live gators acting menacing and the graphic kills with practical effects blending impressively. Some of the more nerve-wracking moments of the film involve cast members actually interacting with these
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When you thought childbirth couldn’t get any more terrifying, Shudder delivers Goody Goody. It is a deeply disturbing blend of regional folk horror, suffocating isolation, and agonizing body horror. Premiering September 18, 2026, writer-director Raymond Creamer’s nightmare is a relentless, jaw-dropping experience that will force even seasoned horror fans to watch through their fingers (I did). It is a terrifying triumph that lingers long after the credits roll, leaving you equal parts exhilarated and genuinely traumatized. Trapped in a Snowbound Birth Nightmare The film centers on an expecting couple and their midwife. They settle into a false sense of security during a prolonged, grueling home birth. But when a howling blizzard unexpectedly strikes, it seals the house off from the outside world. The cozy sanctuary becomes a claustrophobic trap. As the storm rages outside, the trio must confront escalating, otherworldly complications that hint at something far more sinister than ordinary medical distress. Masterful Craftsmanship and Unapologetic Mystery Raymond Creamer (interview) steers
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You Are the Film (Japan, 2026) Official Tubi FrightFest Synopsis from https://frightfest.co.uk/LondoN2026/you-are-the-film.html The long-awaited directorial debut of Makoto Ueda, writer of BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES and RIVER. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO goes wacky Sci-Fi as Shimokitazawa native playwright Madoka and Sangenjaya-based band member Kazuma separately go and see a movie at the Tollywood independent cinema. But in the film, they each see the other person on screen — Madoka is in the film Kazuma is watching, and vice versa. In this impossible multiverse, incidents occur within each other’s stories as both communicate through the screen and work hard to solve the problems that arise in each other’s narratives. Review You Are the Film writer/director Makoto Ueda wrote the screenplays for the excellent time loop science-fiction comedies Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River. If you have seen either of those films, you can expect that you will be in for a humorous, touching treat of a genre feature
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Official synopsis Desperate to save their possessed son, a fractured couple turns to a cursed Pagan device—unleashing a greater evil that threatens their sanity, their marriage, and their souls. Review Director Steven Fierberg’s The Spirit Lock (U.K., 2026) combines folk horror and possession horror with the battling of personal demons in an impressive slice of cinematic fear fare. The screenplay by Justin Stanley and Mark Jonathan Stanley is wonderfully crafted, and the cast members all check in with fine performances. Karl Mellor (Joe Anderson) is desperate enough to save his son Kit (Stefanos Paraskevopoulus) from what he fears is a demonic possession that he takes on the heavy responsibility of acquiring the titular pagan object. This being a horror film, obviously that will prove to have consequences. He tries to keep his tactics away from his wife Vanessa (Yasmin Al-Khudhairi), but naturally that can only last so long. Karl is frustrated that professionals such as man of the cloth Father
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Official synopsis At a Halloween party inside a notorious murder house, fifteen-year-old Emily opens a digital spirit board and invites an ancient entity into her body. To save her, her boyfriend Tommy must join forces with Owen — the app’s creator and his former best friend — before possession becomes permanent. Review Writer/director Nick Lyon’s Do You Want to Play? Has an odd feel to it. The drama, including a love triangle between three Christian private high school students, along with many plot elements have a gateway horror flavor to them, but the carnage and gore is much stronger than I would imagine many preteen viewers might be ready for. More seasoned fright-fare viewers would find the gruesome elements more to their liking but find the other proceedings to be better suited for a juvenile audience. Still, the film offers some interesting updating of spirit board movie chills to the digital world of today’s teens. Lyons does an admirable job
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Official Synopsis A bunch of young men and women just want to have some fun in the sun. What could go wrong? Review Spider Island sees the trope of unlikable influencers getting theirs move from the more often used location of a single type of bode to an entire resort island. Influencers are certainly an easy target, but that type of character is becoming low hanging fruit with each new fear flick. Here, director Christopher Smith’s horror comedy at least gives viewers a more sympathetic “creator” and adds a young woman named Clara (Rose Williams) who is not a part of that group and is concerned with ecoactivism rather than joining the hedonistic partying provided courtesy of pompous corporate resort employee David (Andy Nyman). David wants the influencers to spread the good word about the resort but poisonous arachnids won’t give up their home turf so easily. Clara’s estranged father Curtis (Tim McInnerny) was a famous stage actor who gave
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Still Ohio Official synopsis In a misguided attempt to save her relationship, Ana (Fernanda Lopez) transfers from Boston College to Tulane to be with her boyfriend, Doug. Doug arranges for Ana to carpool with three of his rambunctious friends, Henry (Michael Zapesotsky), Julia (Sofia Angelopoulos), and Johnny (Jake Melamed). However, along the way, Ana discovers Doug does not know these strangers nearly as well as she was led to believe. Review I’m rather a hard sell on genre films involving time loops, but writer/director Kaylin Allshouse’s Still Ohio is a well crafted exception to my usual stance. The characters and circumstances are nicely fleshed out, the direction is strong, and the performances from the four leads are all impressive. Without giving too much away, the road trip that the four protagonists find themselves on involves a gas station that at first seems eerily similar to the first one where they stopped. As incidents proceed, that location and the other people
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For a while, I’ve been hyping up Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco’s Vampire RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker. It also seemed that a lot of people were looking forward to the game’s release, as the devs kept teasing what was awaiting players. Was the hype worth it? The Blood of Dawnwalker takes place in a fictional […]
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I’ll admit, when I first saw the trailer for Hitori De Productions’ Dream Cage, I thought it was going to be an interesting concept of mixing sleep paralysis terror with spooky anomaly hunting. Sadly, this is another one of those “fooled by the trailer” horror games. From the official write-up for the game, it’s about a […]
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Buenos Aries is absolutely up to it’s ass in flesh-eating ghouls. Such is the premise of 2024’s Portraits of the Apocalypse, a multi-tale fright flick that examines the apocalyptic event from a multitude of perspectives. Directors Nicanor Loreti, Fabián Forte, and Luca Castello each take turns telling stories of a world gone mad, and things […]
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Official synopsis Gator Face follows a group of friends whose sun-soaked Florida vacation takes a dark turn when they become prey to a sinister cult that sacrifices its victims to an alligator god. Far from the carefree escape they had planned, the friends are drawn deeper into an isolated world governed by ritual and violence, forcing them into a desperate fight to survive both the cult and the deadly creature at the center of its beliefs. Review Writer/director Padraig Reynolds’ Gator Face combines masked slasher mayhem with creature feature carnage. Fear-fare fanatics who love their horror brutal and at a relentless pace are going to have a field day, but many viewers will ultimately feel like they got kicked where it hurts most. The editing on alligator attacks is great, with live gators acting menacing and the graphic kills with practical effects blending impressively. Some of the more nerve-wracking moments of the film involve cast members actually interacting with these
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When you thought childbirth couldn’t get any more terrifying, Shudder delivers Goody Goody. It is a deeply disturbing blend of regional folk horror, suffocating isolation, and agonizing body horror. Premiering September 18, 2026, writer-director Raymond Creamer’s nightmare is a relentless, jaw-dropping experience that will force even seasoned horror fans to watch through their fingers (I did). It is a terrifying triumph that lingers long after the credits roll, leaving you equal parts exhilarated and genuinely traumatized. Trapped in a Snowbound Birth Nightmare The film centers on an expecting couple and their midwife. They settle into a false sense of security during a prolonged, grueling home birth. But when a howling blizzard unexpectedly strikes, it seals the house off from the outside world. The cozy sanctuary becomes a claustrophobic trap. As the storm rages outside, the trio must confront escalating, otherworldly complications that hint at something far more sinister than ordinary medical distress. Masterful Craftsmanship and Unapologetic Mystery Raymond Creamer (interview) steers
Continue reading →
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You Are the Film (Japan, 2026) Official Tubi FrightFest Synopsis from https://frightfest.co.uk/LondoN2026/you-are-the-film.html The long-awaited directorial debut of Makoto Ueda, writer of BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES and RIVER. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO goes wacky Sci-Fi as Shimokitazawa native playwright Madoka and Sangenjaya-based band member Kazuma separately go and see a movie at the Tollywood independent cinema. But in the film, they each see the other person on screen — Madoka is in the film Kazuma is watching, and vice versa. In this impossible multiverse, incidents occur within each other’s stories as both communicate through the screen and work hard to solve the problems that arise in each other’s narratives. Review You Are the Film writer/director Makoto Ueda wrote the screenplays for the excellent time loop science-fiction comedies Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River. If you have seen either of those films, you can expect that you will be in for a humorous, touching treat of a genre feature
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviews
Official synopsis Desperate to save their possessed son, a fractured couple turns to a cursed Pagan device—unleashing a greater evil that threatens their sanity, their marriage, and their souls. Review Director Steven Fierberg’s The Spirit Lock (U.K., 2026) combines folk horror and possession horror with the battling of personal demons in an impressive slice of cinematic fear fare. The screenplay by Justin Stanley and Mark Jonathan Stanley is wonderfully crafted, and the cast members all check in with fine performances. Karl Mellor (Joe Anderson) is desperate enough to save his son Kit (Stefanos Paraskevopoulus) from what he fears is a demonic possession that he takes on the heavy responsibility of acquiring the titular pagan object. This being a horror film, obviously that will prove to have consequences. He tries to keep his tactics away from his wife Vanessa (Yasmin Al-Khudhairi), but naturally that can only last so long. Karl is frustrated that professionals such as man of the cloth Father
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Official synopsis At a Halloween party inside a notorious murder house, fifteen-year-old Emily opens a digital spirit board and invites an ancient entity into her body. To save her, her boyfriend Tommy must join forces with Owen — the app’s creator and his former best friend — before possession becomes permanent. Review Writer/director Nick Lyon’s Do You Want to Play? Has an odd feel to it. The drama, including a love triangle between three Christian private high school students, along with many plot elements have a gateway horror flavor to them, but the carnage and gore is much stronger than I would imagine many preteen viewers might be ready for. More seasoned fright-fare viewers would find the gruesome elements more to their liking but find the other proceedings to be better suited for a juvenile audience. Still, the film offers some interesting updating of spirit board movie chills to the digital world of today’s teens. Lyons does an admirable job
Continue reading →
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Official Synopsis A bunch of young men and women just want to have some fun in the sun. What could go wrong? Review Spider Island sees the trope of unlikable influencers getting theirs move from the more often used location of a single type of bode to an entire resort island. Influencers are certainly an easy target, but that type of character is becoming low hanging fruit with each new fear flick. Here, director Christopher Smith’s horror comedy at least gives viewers a more sympathetic “creator” and adds a young woman named Clara (Rose Williams) who is not a part of that group and is concerned with ecoactivism rather than joining the hedonistic partying provided courtesy of pompous corporate resort employee David (Andy Nyman). David wants the influencers to spread the good word about the resort but poisonous arachnids won’t give up their home turf so easily. Clara’s estranged father Curtis (Tim McInnerny) was a famous stage actor who gave
Continue reading →
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Still Ohio Official synopsis In a misguided attempt to save her relationship, Ana (Fernanda Lopez) transfers from Boston College to Tulane to be with her boyfriend, Doug. Doug arranges for Ana to carpool with three of his rambunctious friends, Henry (Michael Zapesotsky), Julia (Sofia Angelopoulos), and Johnny (Jake Melamed). However, along the way, Ana discovers Doug does not know these strangers nearly as well as she was led to believe. Review I’m rather a hard sell on genre films involving time loops, but writer/director Kaylin Allshouse’s Still Ohio is a well crafted exception to my usual stance. The characters and circumstances are nicely fleshed out, the direction is strong, and the performances from the four leads are all impressive. Without giving too much away, the road trip that the four protagonists find themselves on involves a gas station that at first seems eerily similar to the first one where they stopped. As incidents proceed, that location and the other people
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
For a while, I’ve been hyping up Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco’s Vampire RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker. It also seemed that a lot of people were looking forward to the game’s release, as the devs kept teasing what was awaiting players. Was the hype worth it? The Blood of Dawnwalker takes place in a fictional […]
Continue reading →
GamingNewsParanormalProductReviews
I’ll admit, when I first saw the trailer for Hitori De Productions’ Dream Cage, I thought it was going to be an interesting concept of mixing sleep paralysis terror with spooky anomaly hunting. Sadly, this is another one of those “fooled by the trailer” horror games. From the official write-up for the game, it’s about a […]
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesReviews
Buenos Aries is absolutely up to it’s ass in flesh-eating ghouls. Such is the premise of 2024’s Portraits of the Apocalypse, a multi-tale fright flick that examines the apocalyptic event from a multitude of perspectives. Directors Nicanor Loreti, Fabián Forte, and Luca Castello each take turns telling stories of a world gone mad, and things […]
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