
Two genre vets and a hot director team up for a fresh take on vampires. So why is Jakob’s Wife so muddled?
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by Joe Lipsett

Two genre vets and a hot director team up for a fresh take on vampires. So why is Jakob’s Wife so muddled?
by Joe Lipsett

Now that Promising Young Woman is out on Blu, it’s the ideal opportunity to revisit Emerald Fennell’s buzzy, controversial Oscar nominated film.
by Joe Lipsett

One of the year’s most enjoyable horror comedies takes the unexpected form of a 90s throwback in PG: Psycho Goreman.
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
by Joe Lipsett

Dreamcatcher opens with a fairly conventional kill. A POC character, Kya (Nazanin Mandi), walks down a series of hallways before she is attacked and killed by a man wearing a mask. It’s familiar, but well executed and positions the film as a fun slasher film.
Alas Dreamcatcher has far greater ambitions, but lacks the ability to execute them. [Read more…]
by Joe Lipsett

Pity Peninsula. It was always going to be difficult to follow up Train to Busan, which in just a few years has cemented its status as a modern horror classic.
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
by Joe Lipsett

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a group of young adults break into an old person’s home looking for an easy score and find themselves in an unexpected battle for survival instead. [Read more…]