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Psycho Killer (2026) EDIT “A closing credit for additional editing bespeaks a film that went through extensive postproduction travails, and wound up shorn of dramatic nuance and sense.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 78% EDIT “I’ve seen THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, and you, COLD STORAGE, are no RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 61% EDIT “A well-executed example of the Cursed Object formula crossed with FINAL DESTINATION, bringing some style and a little bit of heart to go with its sometimes extreme gore.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) 18% EDIT “The good news is that CHAPTER 3 is something of an improvement on its predecessors; the bad news is that it isn’t nearly enough of one.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Feb 6, 2026 Full Review My Bloody Valentine (1981) 39% EDIT “The victims-to-be are more personable than usual, and the movie also benefits from atmospheric lensing on Nova Scotia locations, not to mention underground in real mines.” – Fangoria Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “Raimi laces this tense emotional rollercoaster with plenty of his trademark aggressive style, employing exaggerated close-ups and baroque visual/editing tricks, and taking every opportunity to play things to the nasty/icky hilt.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 19% EDIT “[The movie] plays like the most simplistic kind of video game, carrying us from one gnarly encounter to another without giving us an emotional connection to what’s going on.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Killer Whale (2026) 20% EDIT “KILLER WHALE doesn’t come up with enough inventive developments once the situation is established, and the CGI used to create the environment isn’t quite convincing, which is a distraction throughout.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% EDIT “Essentially a Syfy movie done slicker, it has just enough scares and shocks to provide a diverting ride through the perils of primate change.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% EDIT “Carnage and mayhem aren't WE BURY THE DEAD's focus or endgame...there's a respect for the dead, and the tragedy of both their passing and their resurrection, that’s uncommon for the genre.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “The result isn’t nearly as funny as the first sequel, ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID, was without trying.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “Fuller deftly tells a child's story in grown-up terms and comes up with a movie that can be enjoyed by adults and older kids alike.” – Fangoria Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% EDIT “An improvement on the original in every way, showcasing stronger filmmaking and production values and replacing crude psychopathology with a somewhat more layered characterization of its Santa-dressed serial killer.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Troll 2 (2025) 58% EDIT “Let’s hope for something more figuratively as well as literally groundbreaking if this cinematic monsterverse winds up becoming a, ahem, trollogy.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 49% EDIT “Clearly, this team knows what scares you, and they all work in perfect concert to deliver it.” – Fangoria Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Boorman and the Devil (2025) EDIT “They say no one tries to make a bad film, and BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL exemplifies that idea; everyone involved worked hard, at the top of their craft, and the doc is entirely sympathetic to them for it.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Self-Help (2025) 82% EDIT “It’s more dramatically oriented than an all-out horror show (though the scary stuff definitely lands), and also more psychologically ambitious than the Bloomquists’ previous movies.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 31, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “Comic outrageousness is often more attention-getting than a straight face, but the latter approach pays off in From Beyond, which plumbs deeper than Re-Animator did and pays off in both dramatic intensity and frights aplenty.” – Fangoria Oct 20, 2025 Full Review The Astronaut (2025) 42% EDIT “What’s missing for most of the running time is a sense that movie is about anything more than it appears on the surface.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Del Toro now contributes one of the best [adaptations] by going back to the source and translating Shelley’s words to images through his own personal lens.” – Fangoria Oct 17, 2025 Full Review New Group (2025) EDIT “It’s a most entertaining slice of weirdness...braced by an underpinning of social commentary that supports and enhances its bizarre visual and narrative pleasures.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% EDIT “It isn’t about upping the body count in an attempt to outdo its predecessor’s thrills and chills, but digging deeper into the psyches of its two troubled youths.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Vicious (2025) 44% EDIT “Even with its problems, VICIOUS is further confirmation of Bertino’s skill at tightening the screws on both his protagonists and his audiences.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Beast of War (2025) 89% EDIT “It's a by now familiar but still effectively elemental survival situation, one that Roache-Turner wrings for both interpersonal tension and toothy thrills.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% EDIT “Morgan and Friedlander deliciously turn the screws, lacing the gory goings-on with a generous helping of black humor...the actors commit to the savage/survival sides of their roles as fully as they do to their variously flawed characters.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 3, 2025 Full Review
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