Movie Review: KEEPER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/15/2025
KEEPER movie poster | ©2025 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Birkett Turton, Eden Weiss Writer: Nick Lepard Director: Osgood Perkins Distributor: Neon Release Date: November 14, 2025 With KEEPER, the studio has gone out of its way to request no spoilers. Fair enough. Therefore, we’ll try to keep to just with what’s in the trailer and the first few minutes of the film. KEEPER starts with a quick montage of several attractive women who are in relationships that are at first promising and descend into atrocity. We only see the women; whoever they’re interacting with has the camera’s point of view. We meet […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RABBIT TRAP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/12/2025
RABBIT TRAP movie poster | ©2025 Magnet Releasing

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot, Nicholas Sampson Writer: Bryn Chainey Director: Bryn Chainey Distributor: Magnet Releasing Release Date: September 12, 2025 RABBIT TRAP is being described as “folk horror.” That’s arguably a misclassification. It is more precisely a near-modern-day fairytale, propelled by folklore and a sense of wonder about magic, nature, and our senses. The film starts by telling us, “The Shadow has been gifted many names. Goblin, demon, fairy. Your forgotten child.” It goes on to say that nature provides music. To illustrate this, we see a man, who we will soon learn is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WITCHBOARD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/15/2025
WITCHBOARD movie poster | ©2025 TheAvenue/Atlas Distribution

Rating: R Stars: Madison Iseman, Aaron Dominguez, Melanie Jarnson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Antonia Desplat, Charlie Tahan, David La Haye, Elisha Herbert, Renee Herbert, Chiara ForsattiWriters: Chuck Russell and Greg McKay, inspired by the screenplay WITCHBOARD by Kevin Tenney Director: Chuck Russell Distributor: The Avenue/Atlas Distribution Release Date: August 15, 2025 The original 1986 WITCHBOARD, written and directed by Kevin Tenney, was a horror movie that centered around a Ouija board and eventual spiritual possession. WITCHBOARD was followed by 1992’s WITCHBOARD 2 and 1995’s WITCHBOARD III: THE POSSESSION. Now we’ve got a new WITCHBOARD, in more ways than one. In 2014, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BIRTHRITE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/08/2025
BIRTHRITE movie poster | ©2025 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alice Kremelberg, Juani Feliz, Jennifer LaFleur, Henny Russell, Owen Campbell, Michael Chernus Writers: Patch Darragh & Erin Gann Director: Ross Partridge Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: August 8, 2025 (theatrical, VOD) BIRTHRITE has a satisfyingly creepy atmosphere, but the way it doles out its mythology is problematic, as is its character logic. The film begins with a small fire in the woods at night. A cloaked figure wearing horns hands something to another hooded person, who runs away with the gift. Then it’s daylight. Wren Collins (Alice Kremelberg) is astonished to learn that not only did […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SEVERED SUN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/16/2025
THE SEVERED SUN movie poster | ©2025 Dark Sky Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Emma Appleton, Toby Stephens, Jodhi May, Lewis Gribben, Barney Harris, Oliver Maltman, Flora Lambert, Eoin Slattery, Zachary Tanner, James Swanton Writer: Dean Puckett Director: Dean Puckett Distributor: Dark Sky Films Release Date: May 16, 2025 Director/writer Dean Puckett creates such a potent sense of atmosphere throughout THE SEVERED SUN that we keep waiting for it to become more than it does. At the outset, a young woman – we will shortly discover this is Margaret, called Magpie (Emma Appleton) – narrates a brief fable about how the lonely moon created the sun as a lover, leaving […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLOAT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/07/2025
BLOAT movie poster | ©2025 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Ben McKenzie, Bojana Novakovic, Malcolm Fuller, Sawyer Jones, Kane Kosugi Writer: Pablo Absento Director: Pablo Absento Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: March 7, 2025 (theatrical, digital, VOD) BLOAT shares a stylistic ethos (and executive producer Timur Bekmambetov) with UNFRIENDED and SEARCHING. Like those films and a few others, including the sublime HOST, BLOAT takes place entirely on the screens of computers and cellphones. It’s a variation on the found footage horror subgenre, which has a few built-in advantages. For starters, the webcams keep us from wondering why a character is continuing to shoot with their camera when they […]Read On »


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Movie Review: GET AWAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/10/2025
GET AWAY movie poster | ©2025 IFC

Rating: R Stars: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Maisie Ayres, Ville Vertanen, Eero Milonoff, Anitta Suikkari, Jouko Ahola, Verneri Lilja, Ilkka Koivula Writer: Nick Frost Director: Steffen Haars Distributor: IFC Films Release Date: December 6, 2024 (theatrical); January 10, 2024 (Shudder) It’s easy to see how GET AWAY is supposed to work. It starts out as a parody of THE WICKER MAN/MIDSOMMAR type of folk horror, with a big twist at the two-thirds mark. It looks great, has the pedigree of SHAUN OF THE DEAD costar/PAUL cowriter/costar Nick Frost as star and writer, and plenty of mileage in its […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NOSFERATU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/25/2024
NOSFERATU movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Willem Dafoe, Simon McBurney Writer: Robert Eggers, based on the screenplay for NOSFERATU by Henrik Galeen and the novel DRACULA by Bram Stoker Director: Robert Eggers Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: December 25, 2024 “Nosferatu” is another word for “vampire.” It is also the title of the still-influential 1922 silent German horror film, directed by F.W. Murnau and scripted by Henrik Galeen, based on Bram Stoker’s novel DRACULA. Werner Herzog directed a 1979 adaptation, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, and last year, there was another version, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STARVE ACRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/26/2024
STARVE ACRE movie poster | ©2024 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder, Melanie Kilburn, Arthur Shaw, Roger Barclay Writer: Daniel Kokotajlo, based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley Director: Daniel Kokotajlo Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: July 26, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Based on Andrew Michael Hurley’s 2019 novel, STARVE ACRE is set in contemporary northern England. It begins with a poem, “The Dandelion,” by Neil Willoughby, which we observe is actually an invocation for a kind of devil. We’ll find out more about the poem’s author by and by. Meanwhile, university professor Richard (Matt Smith), his […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LORD OF MISRULE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/08/2023
LORD OF MISRULE movie poster | ©2023 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Tuppence Middleton, Ralph Ineson, Matt Stokoe, Anton Valensi, Rosalind March, Robert Goodman, Alexa Goodall, David Langham, Jane Wood, Evie Templeton Writer: Tom De Ville Director: William Brent Bell Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: December 8, 2023 Folk horror doesn’t get much folkier than LORD OF MISRULE. Almost every frame is packed with masks, costumes, charms, decorations, and artwork of British paganism. Even the scenes that are relatively mundane are shot and adorned to look as though they can easily accommodate anything folklore-related that may turn up in the frame. For a good stretch, the film, written […]Read On »


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