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Movie Review: INFLUENCERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/14/2025
INFLUENCERS movie poster | ©2025 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Georgina Campbell, Lisa Delamar, Jonathan Whitesell, Veronica Long, Dylan Playfair Writer: Kurtis David Harder Director: Kurtis David Harder Distributor: Shudder Release Date: December 12, 2025 (Shudder) While INFLUENCERS does not pick up immediately after the end of 2023’s INFLUENCER, it’s extremely helpful to watch the earlier film before diving into the sequel. In both, the main characters are Madison White (Emily Tennant) and influencer-hating fraudster CW (Cassandra Naud). INFLUENCERS fills us in to the required degree on their previous individual and shared histories, but INFLUENCER gives us more nuance and a greater […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE HAUNTED SEASON – Season 1 – “The Occupant of the Room”

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/02/2025
THE HAUNTED SEASON | ©2025 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Don McKellar, Ben Petrie, Delphine Roussel Writer: Kier-La Janisse based on the story by Algernon Blackwood Director: Kier-La Janisse Network: Shudder Airdate: December 1, 2025 (Shudder) “The Occupant of the Room” is the second episode of the first season of Shudder’s anthology series THE HAUNTED SEASON. Producer/director/screenwriter Kier-La Janisse brings us one episode per year in the tradition of telling scary stories around the Christmas tree. Based on the Algernon Blackwood story of the same title, the 2025 offering “The Occupant of the Room” is set in the French Alps in 1936. Due to a reservations […]Read On »


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Movie Review: QUEENS OF THE DEAD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/26/2025
QUEENS OF THE DEAD movie poster | ©2025 IFC/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Katy O’Brian, Jaquel Spivey. Quincy Dunn-Baker, Margaret Cho, Riki Lindhome, Tomás Matos, Thomas “Nina West” Levitt, Jack Haven, Cheyenne Jackson, Dominique Jackson, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Becca Blackwell, Eve Lindley, Karan Brar, Tom Savini, Julie J Writers: Tina Romero & Erin Judge Director: Tina Romero Distributor: IFC/Shudder Release Date: October 24, 2025 (theatrical) When your personal father is also the acknowledged father of the zombie genre, that would seem to confer certain rights and responsibilities. Tina Romero, daughter of George A. Romero, seems to take these seriously even though she mixes humor into her feature directing debut, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESOSTEREN)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/18/2025
THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESOSTEREN) | ©2025 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdener, Ralph Carlsson, Cecilia Forss, Katarzyna Hermann, Adam Lundgren Writer: Emilie Blichfeldt Director: Emilie Blichfeldt Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: April 18, 2025 THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESØSTEREN) is an intriguing dark fairytale, seen from the point of view of one of Cinderella’s famed relatives-by-marriage. While there is plenty of body horror, and Shudder is listed as a co-distributor, the movie is not conventionally scary. Directed and written by Emilie Blichfeldt, THE UGLY STEPSISTER is mostly simply dark period comedy/social commentary, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLOODY AXE WOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/28/2025
BLOODY AXE WOUND movie poster | ©2025 RLJE Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Sari Arambulo, Billy Burke, Molly Brown, Eddie Leavy, Margot Anderson-Song, Taylor Seupel, Angel Theory, Matt Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Writer: Matthew John Lawrence Director: Matthew John Lawrence Distributor: RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: December 27, 2024 (theatrical); March 21, 2025 (Shudder streaming) With apologies to Stephen Graham Jones, who wrote an unrelated novel with this title, I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER would have been a more informative moniker for BLOODY AXE WOUND. The initial set-up for BLOODY AXE WOUND, which we’ll get to in a bit, suggests that the film is going to head in one direction, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MADS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/25/2024
MADS movie poster | ©2024 Capella Film/Shudder

Rating: TV-MA Stars: Lucille Guillaume, Laurie Pavy, Milton Riche, Yovel Lewkowski, Sasha Rudakowa, Vincent Pasdermadjian Writer: David Moreau Director: David Moreau Distributor: Capella Film/Shudder Release Date: October 18, 2024 (Shudder) MADS is made to look as though it was shot in one continuous take. We know it wasn’t, of course, as it moves from day to night, indoors to outdoors and back again, and through multiple neighborhoods. The conceit does keep us on our toes, though. We’re somewhere in France, where Romain (Milton Riche) is celebrating his eighteenth birthday by getting high on a snortable drug of unknown provenance, at […]Read On »


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Movie Review: V/H/S/BEYOND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/10/2024
V/H/S/BEYOND movie poster | ©2024 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Mitch Horowitz, Brian Baker, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, Wren Weichman, Thom Hallum, Jolene Andersen, Vas Provatakis, Namrata Sheth, Sayandeep Sengupta, Rohan Joshi, Bobby Slaski, Hannah McBride, Libby Letlow, Alanah Pearce Writers: Jordan Downey (“Stork”), Kevin Stewart (“Stork”), based on artwork by Oleg Vdovenko, Virat Pal (“Dream Girl”), Evan Dickson (“Dream Girl”), Ben Turner (“Live and Let Dive”), Justin Martinez (“Live and Let Dive”), Christian Long (“Fur Babies”), Justin Long (“Fur Babies”), Mike Flanagan (“Stowaway”) Directors: Jay Cheel (“Abduction/Adduction”), Jordan Downey (“Stork”), Virat Pal (“Dream Girl”), Justin Martinez (“Live and Let Dive”), Christian Long (“Fur Babies”), Justin […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE DEMON DISORDER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/06/2024
THE DEMON DISORDER key art | ©2024 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Christian Willis, Dirk Hunter, Charles Cottier, John Noble, Tobie Webster Writers: Steve Boyle & Toby Osborne Director: Steve Boyle Distributor: Shudder Release Date: September 6, 2024 (Shudder) THE DEMON DISORDER treats demonic possession as a hereditary physical disease. It mixes Cronenbergian levels of body horror with family drama that has elements of both tragedy and dark humor. We’re in rural Australia. We start with views of a rundown house behind a chain-link fence. The place is occupied, though, by two adult Reilly brothers. Alcoholic Jake (Dirk Hunter) is the eldest; troubled youngest Phillip (Charles Cottier) is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ODDITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/19/2024
ODDITY movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: R Stars: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Jonathan French, Steve Wall Writer: Damian McCarthy Director: Damian McCarthy Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: July 19, 2024 (theatrical) ODDITY is a contemporary Irish horror film that uses multiple mythic ingredients for maximum effect. Dani Timmis (Carolyn Bracken) is alone in a huge, isolated manor. She seems unafraid as she chats on the phone to her husband, Dr. Ted Timmis (Gwilym Lee), who works at a mental hospital in the city. Dani has a tent and an automatic camera set up, hoping to capture images of ghosts. Dani also […]Read On »


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Movie Review: YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/05/2024
YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME movie poster | ©2024 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Brendan Rock, Jordan Cowan Writer: Indianna Bell Directors: Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell Distributor: Shudder Release Date: March 22, 2024 (Shudder) YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME is well-made, well-shot, and extremely well-acted. Directors Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell, working from Bell’s script, do a first-rate job of putting a lot of visual variety into a film that essentially takes place in one location: the interior of a large mobile home in an Australian trailer park. Patrick (Brendan Rock) lives alone here. He has an old-fashioned portable radio plugged into the wall. He is examining liquid in a […]Read On »


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