Horror Necronomicon

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: Vicious
A promising premise squandered by a story that refuses to end

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: Silent Night, Deadly Night
‘Dexter’ and ‘Venom’ are all over this surprisingly effective character study

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: Black Phone 2
You may not want to pick up the phone this time around….

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: The Strangers: Chapter 2
Do you want to find out why the Strangers do what they do? Us neither.

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: Coyotes
Nature-gone-horror, eco-horror, home invasion thriller, and slasher converge in this Fantastic Fest premiere

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: Find Your Friends
Spring Breakers meets The Hills Have Eyes in this refreshingly unafraid party-turned-horror movie

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: V/H/S/Halloween
The found footage anthology series falters in its embrace of spooky season

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: Shelby Oaks
Chris Stuckmann successfully makes the transition from film critic to filmmaker

FANTASTIC FEST 2025 REVIEW: Primate
Going ape shit has never been more fun

REVIEW: Him
Sports meets horror in a refreshing, abrasive viewing experience

REVIEW: The Long Walk
A brutal slog for its characters, an unsettling and captivating journey for its viewers

REVIEW: Rabbit Trap
Trauma and horror don’t always make for a great combo

REVIEW: The Conjuring: Last Rites
A disappointing finale to the successful horror franchise

REVIEW: Night of the Reaper
‘House of the Devil’ meets ‘Halloween’ in this chilling, yet flawed, Shudder release

Fantastic Fest 2025 Lineup Announced
Black Phone 2, Shelby Oaks, The Strangers Chapter 2, and V/H/S/Halloween are among the premieres at the Austin festival

10 Movies You Should Watch If You Enjoyed ‘Weapons’
More movies that you may want to watch after Zach Cregger’s latest

REVIEW: I Know What You Did Last Summer
More of a remake than a legacy sequel (with one hell of a twist)

REVIEW: M3GAN 2.0
M3GAN trades in horror for action and humor, but does the genre reconfiguration work?

REVIEW: 28 Years Later
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reunite for an intense, disjointed sequel

REVIEW: Bring Her Back
The creators of ‘Talk to Me’ dabble in unsettling horror once again

REVIEW: Final Destination Bloodlines
Elaborate and morbidly hilarious kills make for the quintessential Final Destination movie

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Director & Author Discuss Their Slasher with a Twist
The hit YA novel becomes a big screen slasher

REVIEW: Clown in a Cornfield
Introduce yourself to Frendo the clown in this slasher flick with a twist

REVIEW: Until Dawn
Friday the 13th meets Happy Death Day in a video game adaptation that fails to hit the heights of either

Hidden Gems to Stream on Every Major Streaming Service
Struggling to find what to watch? Check out our guide.

REVIEW: The Monkey
Stephen King, James Wan, and Osgood Perkins team up for the year’s best movie so far.

REVIEW: Heart Eyes
Cheesy romantic comedy meets slasher flick in this misfire of a Valentine’s Day treat

SXSW 2025 Film & TV Festival Line-Up Revealed
New films from Daisy Ridley, Blumhouse, Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck, and Nicolas Cage are on our SXSW 2025 radar

REVIEW: Companion
The creators of ‘Barbarian’ envision a clever, yet disappointing, horror romance

REVIEW: Wolf Man
The director of ‘The Invisible Man’ re-envisions another Universal Monsters classic

‘The Substance’ Wins Big At Chicago Indie Critics Awards
The breakout body-horror phenomenon tops the Windie Awards winners

REVIEW: Nosferatu
Robert Eggers reimagines the vampire classic with mixed results

REVIEW: Time Cut
Travel back to 2003 in this time-traveling slasher on Netflix

HORROR SPOTLIGHT: Night of the Harvest
A masked slasher hunts on Halloween night in this new horror flick

