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Movie Review: HELL HOUSE LLC: LINEAGE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/03/2025
HELL HOUSE LLC.: LINEAGE movie poster | ©2025 Shudder/Terror Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Elizabeth Vermilyea, Sierra Sawka, Mike Sutton, Joe Bandelli, Nicholas Stoesser, Emily Fan, Victoria Andrunik, Kayla Berejikian Writer: Stephen Cognetti Director: Stephen Cognetti Distributor: Shudder/Terror Films Release Date: October 3, 2025 (Shudder) There is something impressive about writer/director Stephen Cognetti’s ability to inject just enough changes into a formula to keep things lively, while maintaining the elements that make a franchise hang together. However, he presses his luck with HELL HOUSE LLC: LINEAGE, as it refers a little overmuch to its predecessors, and ends on a cliffhanger. HELL HOUSE LLC: LINEAGE is the fifth film Cognetti has […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NIGHT OF THE REAPER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/22/2025
NIGHT OF THE REAPER movie poster | ©2025 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jessica Clement, Ryan Robbins, Summer H. Howell, Keegan Connor Tracy, Matty Finochio, Ben Cockell, Bryn Samuel, Savannah Miller, Sofie Kane, Max Christensen, Huxley Fisher, Isla Spencer Writers: Ryan Christensen & Brandon Christensen Director: Brandon Christensen Distributor: Shudder Release Date: September 19, 2025 (Shudder) In NIGHT OF THE REAPER, it’s the ‘80s. Pat Benatar is singing “Heartbreaker” on MTV, and all of suburbia has VCRs on their cathode ray tube TVs. Babysitter Emily (Summer H. Howell) is reassuring her two young charges, Mark (Huxley Fisher) and Marina (Isla Spencer). Mark is afraid of the “Skinny Eater” that […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DIE’CED: RELOADED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/08/2025
DIE'CED: RELOADED | ©2025 Dread/Epic Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eden Campbell, Jason Brooks, Christine Rose Allen, John Karyus, Nigel Vonas, Collin Fischer Writer: Jeremy Rudd, additional scenes written by Wil Radcliffe, story by Jeremy Rudd Director: Jeremy Rudd Distributor: Dread/Epic Pictures Release Date: August 8, 2025 DIE’CED: RELOADED is a remake/expansion of the 2023 fifty-minute film DIE’CED. The new release is half an hour longer than the original, with mostly the same cast and creative team. We’re in ‘80s Seattle. At a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Graves (John Karyus) is examining the file on Benjamin (Jason Brooks), an especially violent inmate who killed his parents in […]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: HE NEVER LEFT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/01/2024
HE NEVER LEFT movie poster | ©2024 Epic Pictures/Dread

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Colin Cunningham, Jessica Staples, James Morris, Sean Hunter, David E. McMahon, Charla Bocchicchio, William McAllister, Jake Watters Writer: James Morris, story by James Morris & Michael Ballif & Colin Cunningham Director: James Morris Distributor: Epic Pictures/Dread Release Date: November 1, 2024 (theatrical), November 5, 2024 (VOD) At the beginning of HE NEVER LEFT, an onscreen set of titles informs us that the small town of Larsen City has been plagued by murders and disappearances at the hands of a masked killer. In 1997, he stopped … but the community never truly healed … We then see […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TERRIFIER 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/10/2024
TERRIFIER 3 movie poster | ©2024 Cineverse

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Samantha Scaffidi, Chris Jericho, Antonella Rose, Margaret Anne Florence, Bryce Johnson, Alexa Blair, Mason Mecartea, Krsy Fox, Clint Howard, Jon Abrahams, Daniel Roebuck, Jason Patric Writer: Damien Leone Director: Damien Leone Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: October 11, 2024 TERRIFIER 3 provides two-for-one holiday horror. Arriving just in time for Halloween, it’s actually set during Christmas. Like its predecessors, 2016’s TERRIFIER and 2022’s TERRIFIER 2, TERRIFIER 3 is written and directed by Damien Leone. Actor David Howard Thornton is likewise back for his third round as Art the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NIGHT OF THE HARVEST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/04/2024
NIGHT OF THE HARVEST movie poster | ©2024 Gravitas Features

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jessica Morgan, Brittany Isabell, Aeric Azana, Jim Cirner, Taylor Falshaw, Ashton Jordaan Ruiz, Autumn Gubersky, John Noble, Steve McKee, Jesse Pickering, Angelica Ornelas, Dustin Rieffer, Michaela Ivey Writer: Christopher M. Carter, story by Christopher M. Carter & Jessica Morgan Directors: Christopher M. Carter & Jessica Morgan Distributor: Gravitas Features Release Date: September 24, 2024 (digital) NIGHT OF THE HARVEST is a low-budget but decently-made Halloween horror slasher. It has a couple of strong plot twists, and succeeds in keeping us guessing if something supernatural or just psychotic is occurring. However, directors Christopher M. Carter & Jessica […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LONGLEGS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/12/2024
LONGLEGS movie poster | ©2024 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Nicolas Cage, Michelle Choi-Lee, Lauren Acala, Kiernan Shipka, Ava Kelders, Carmel Amit Writer: Osgood Perkins| Director: Osgood Perkins Distributor: Neon Release Date: July 12, 2024 LONGLEGS succeeds at being admirably scary, leavened by some very funny moments. Mixing FBI procedural thriller with supernatural chiller, writer/director Osgood Perkins has made a film that feels something like a hybrid of 1991’s THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and 1982’s HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH. (The latter isn’t a spot-on comparison, but it’s close as far as the magical mechanisms.) We get quite a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IN A VIOLENT NATURE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/31/2024
IN A VIOLENT NATURE movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Sam Roulston, Alexander Oliver, Timothy Paul McCarthy, Lauren Taylor Writer: Chris Nash Director: Chris Nash Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: May 31, 2024 The horror genre has many subgenres. One of these is the slasher, which has its own collection of sub-subgenres. IN A VIOLENT NATURE seems aimed at those who can differentiate between, say, a HALLOWEEN film and a FRIDAY THE 13TH. The new movie definitely falls into the FRIDAY category. Instead of a summer camp, it’s an old mining […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/22/2024
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: R Stars: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Georgina Haig, Josh Quong Tart, Michael Ironside (voice) Writers: Colin Cairnes & Cameron Cairnes Directors: Colin Cairnes & Cameron Cairnes Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: March 22, 2024 (theatrical); April 19, 2024 (Shudder) Sometimes, it works just fine if a movie indicates at the start how it’s going to finish. Such is the case with LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL, an almost perfect example of how to construct horror movie tension in a contained environment. LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL takes the form of a […]Read On »


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