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The Conjuring (2013) Review: The Haunted House That Means It
James Wan made The Conjuring (2013) with $20 million, a period setting, and a camera that holds its position past the point where genre discipline usually breaks. The result is the best mainstream horror film of its decade — a sentence I write without equivocation, because equivocation belongs in the films that made it necessary.…
Is Obsession (2026) Worth Watching? An Honest Guide
Whether Obsession (2026) is worth watching — the short answer is yes. The useful part is what “yes” comes attached to — because Obsession (2026, dir. Curry Barker) nearly received an NC-17 rating, runs on body horror and moral discomfort, and whose marketing makes it look approximately thirty percent lighter than what it actually is.…
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Review — The Horror Film That Never Tells You It’s a Horror Film
Director: Roman Polanski | Year: 1968 | Runtime: 136 min | Studio: Paramount / William Castle Roman Polanski received a call from producer Robert Evans in 1966 with an offer: adapt Ira Levin’s not-yet-published manuscript for Paramount. He read it in one sitting, called back the same day, and began writing the screenplay before the…
Midsommar Review: Ari Aster Made a Breakup Movie. Then Set It on Fire.
Director: Ari Aster / Year: 2019 / Runtime: 147 min (Theatrical) / Studio: A24 / Square Peg / B-Reel Films This Midsommar review has taken me a long time to write. The problem was never what to say, but how to say it without sounding like someone who just got out of a three-year relationship…
Obsession 2026 Is the Horror Film That Contaminates You. In the Best Way Possible.
There’s a scene in Obsession 2026 where the theater I was sitting in didn’t go quiet. It went silent. The kind of silence where you’re suddenly aware of the person next to you breathing — aware of yourself breathing. A young woman on screen was doing something so desperately wrong, so terrifyingly logical given everything…
Hereditary (2018) Review — A Family Autopsy Disguised as a Horror Film
Hereditary (2018) Review — A Family Autopsy Disguised as a Horror Film Director: Ari Aster | Year: 2018 | Runtime: 127 min | Studio: A24 Let me set the scene. It’s late 2018. I’m sitting in a nearly empty theater in Austin, a warm Shiner Bock in my jacket pocket that I absolutely did not…
