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: 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: 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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SUITABLE FLESH: Director Joe Lynch channels the spirit of Stuart Gordon – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/27/2024
SUITABLE FLESH movie poster | ©2023 RLJE Films/Shudder

SUITABLE FLESH makes its Shudder debut on January 26, and is also available on home video. The body horror film is a modern, gender-swapped take on H.P. Lovecraft’s novella “The Thing on the Doorstep.” Most of SUITABLE FLESH is in the form of an extended flashback, as psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Derby (Heather Graham), currently confined to a padded cell, explains her version of recent events to her friend and colleague Dr. Daniella Upton, played by Barbara Crampton (one of the film’s producers). Joe Lynch directed and is one of the executive producers on SUITABLE FLESH, which was written for the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SACRIFICE GAME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/08/2023
THE SACRIFICE GAME movie poster | ©2023 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Gus Kenworthy, Madison Baines, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre, Chloë Levine, Georgia Acken Writers: Jenn Wexler & Sean Redlitz Director: Jenn Wexler Distributor: Shudder Release Date: December 8, 2023 (Shudder) THE SACRIFICE GAME is set in 1971, perhaps to avoid pesky technology issues and/or to justify the careful production design and color schemes. Directed by Jenn Wexler, with a script by Wexler & Sean Redlitz, it has a nicely-balanced mix of human malice and the supernatural. We are introduced upfront to “the Christmas Killers,” as they have been dubbed by the press. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: V/H/S/85

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/13/2023
V/H/S/85 movie poster | ©2023 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Evie Blair, Florencia Rios, Ari Gallegos, James Ransone, Freddy Rodriguez, Dashiell Derrickson, Kelli Garner, Jordan Belfi, Chuck McCollum Writers: Mike P. Nelson (“No Wake/Ambrosia”), Gigi Saul Guerrero (“God of Death”), Zoe Cooper (“TKNOGD,” story by Zoe Cooper & Natasha Kermani), Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill (“Dreamkill”), Evan Dickson (“Total Copy,” story by David Bruckner & Evan Dickson) Directors: Mike P. Nelson (“No Wake/Ambrosia”), Gigi Saul Guerrero (“God of Death”), Natasha Kermani (“TKNOGD”), Scott Derrickson (“Dreamkill”), David Bruckner (“Total Copy”) Distributor: Shudder Release Date: October 6, 2023 (Shudder) V/H/S/85 is the latest in the horror anthology […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PERPETRATOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/01/2023
PERPETRATOR movie poster | ©2023 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Kiah McKirnan, Melanie Liburd, Ireon Roach, Casimere Jolette, Tim Hopper, Josh Bywater, Audrey Francis, Sasha Kuznetsov, Christopher Lowell, Alicia Silverstone Writer: Jennifer Reeder Director: Jennifer Reeder Distributor: Shudder Release Date: September 1, 2023 (theatrical, Shudder) PERPETRATOR is an uncommonly bloody film. That’s not so much because of violence-related gore – there is some, but it’s not excessive by horror standards – as due to the novel mythmaking of writer/director Jennifer Reeder. In the opening, we see the point of view of a masked stalker pursuing a young woman. This is intercut with footage of less-than-clean surgical […]Read On »


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