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The Blair Witch Project (1999): Why This Found-Footage Horror Classic Still Terrifies Audiences
In Rio, the two men who stopped him on a dark street weren’t shouting. That’s the detail Ethan keeps coming back to when people ask why The Blair Witch Project still gets to him in a way almost nothing else in the genre does. He handed over what was in his pocket, they left, and…
Cannibal Holocaust 1980 Review: The Trial That Took the Fiction More Seriously Than the Facts
This Cannibal Holocaust 1980 review makes one argument above everything else: the film is both a genuinely significant piece of found-footage history and a film that doesn’t deserve a clean pass for how it got there. Cannibal Holocaust runs ninety-six minutes and spends roughly half of them pretending to be evidence. Ruggero Deodato built the…
The Best Found Footage Horror Movies: Fifteen Films That Earned the Shaky Camera
The best found footage horror movies all pass the same test before they’re allowed to scare anyone: they answer why the camera is still running. From Cannibal Holocaust (1980) to Host (2020), the fifteen films on this list each found a real reason to keep filming — professional habit, obsession, a job that depends on…
The Lost Boys Addiction Metaphor: A 1987 Review
The Lost Boys is a 1987 vampire film directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer, and James Jeremias, built on a screenplay that everything else in the production, the photography, the cast, the soundtrack, works hard enough to cover for. Underneath the neon and the motorcycles, what’s become known as the Lost…
Thirst 2009 Review: A Priest, a Vaccine Trial, and an Appetite That Never Stops
This Thirst 2009 review answers the obvious question first: Park Chan-wook’s Korean vampire film, about a Catholic priest turned vampire by a failed vaccine trial, is a colder, more appetite-driven film than horror’s gentler entries like Let the Right One In, built on restraint that eventually runs out. Park Chan-wook’s Thirst (2009) is a vampire…
Let the Right One In (2008) Review: Colder Than Its Reputation
This Let the Right One In 2008 review starts with the direct answer: Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish vampire film, about a bullied twelve-year-old boy and the centuries-old vampire who moves in next door, is often described as horror’s gentlest, most tender love story — but it’s actually colder and more transactional than that reputation suggests, even…
Interview with the Vampire 1994 Review: A Gothic Melodrama Smarter Than Its Own Casting Scandal
This Interview with the Vampire 1994 review makes the case for a film that’s better than its own casting scandal and smaller than its reputation as a horror landmark: an overwrought, gorgeously mounted gothic melodrama, directed by Neil Jordan from Anne Rice’s own script for her 1976 novel, that earns its most memorable moments and…
Nosferatu 2024 Review: Robert Eggers Finally Gives Count Orlok His Rot Back
Nosferatu (2024), directed by Robert Eggers and starring Bill Skarsgård and Lily-Rose Depp, is the best studio horror film in a decade — this Nosferatu 2024 review makes that case in full, department by department, starting with why the ending still hasn’t let me go. I watched Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu three times before writing a…
Weapons (2025) Review: Zach Cregger’s Structure of Withheld Answers
Seventeen third-graders leave their houses at 2:17 in the morning, arms out at their sides like they’re holding their balance on a beam that isn’t there, and none of them ever explains why. That’s the image Zach Cregger’s Weapons opens on and the one it keeps circling back to, and by the time the film…
The Witch (2015) Review: Sound & Silence
The Witch (2015) review that follows makes one argument the site hasn’t made yet: that Kate Dickie’s Katherine, sound designer Adam Stein’s scripted silence, and the film’s folk-horror lineage are the real reasons this Robert Eggers film still holds up a decade later. The Witch (2015), directed by Robert Eggers, is a Puritan folk…
