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It's time to review another movie coming to Screambox , as we take a look today at the Brazilian horror feature, A Mother's Embrace , which will be dropping on the service on 9/16/2025 ! A Mother's Embrace is directed by Cristian Ponce, and it starts off in the childhood of our protagonist, Ana. She and her mother start off at home--where her mom makes Ana guzzle down a full glass of strange tasting milk--but the two quickly head out to a local carnival. At the fair, the two

I love when you can watch a new movie and directly trace its influences back to other films that you have always loved. But more on that in the Ups and Downs segment of this review for reasons I will get into soon... Coming out on 9/23/2025 to Screambox , we have the new horror flick The Draft! --and yes, the exclamation point is part of the title. I was lucky enough to get an advance screener on this one to review and give my thoughts on. As always, huge appreciation goes o

Every so often, you find a movie that doesn't quite belong on the streaming service on which you find it. To that end, my wife and I just watched the 1999 film Jawbreaker ... on Shudder. The same Shudder that specializes in horror offerings. And it was showing the black comedy film Jawbreaker. It didn't make loads of sense, but that's where we found it. Every so often we find movies like that on Shudder, as if the men behind the service forgot what their mission statement was

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