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I need to watch more of the classic Universal Horror features from the 1930's through 1950's. I've seen a handful of them, sure, but there are several more out there. For instance, I have skipped The Mummy and The Phantom Of The Opera because I had heard they didn't quite measure up to the rest. But maybe I'll dig them anyway when I try them out. My favorites at the point to what I've seen are The Creature From The Black Lagoon , The Invisible Man , and The Bride Of Franken

I just recently, as of this writing, passed one hundred movies released in 2025 watched. In that hundred films, I've obviously seen a lot of movies in theaters and that were big, major releases ( Predator: Badlands was officially #100, for instance), but you don't get to that figure without finding a lot of independent flicks on streaming services. When you watch a lot of indie films--especially in the horror genre--you end up seeing a lot of films of a somewhat dubious qual

After thirty years of planning, Guillermo del Toro breathes new life into Frankenstein — an operatic Gothic marvel that’s as emotionally rich as it is visually breathtaking.

Let's get this straight out of the way because it really matters to this review and will come up again as I talk about Chain Reactions : I'm far from the world's biggest fan of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre . (Now Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 , that's a different story. I kind of love that movie) To be absolutely fair, I've only seen the 1974 horror classic once, and perhaps it was a "wrong time, wrong mindset" kind of thing. Maybe if I watched it again, I'd be far more into

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

I recently dog-sat for the uncle and aunt while they went to Tahiti for three-plus weeks. It turns out, I'm not much of a dog person. I sure like dogs! Other people's dogs. As for having one? Well the need to walk them and take them outside is a bit much for me because I am lazy. And they bark. And they are generally big and clumsy, and they hit you with their paw when they want attention. So while dog-sitting wasn't bad by any stretch, my wife and I will stick to our three c

Fifteen years after a reboot was first announced, The Toxic Avenge r  finally slithers out of development hell and onto U.S. screens. The...

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Horror-comedy is tricky to nail, but Hold the Fort  makes it look effortless — and in just 74 minutes, no less. Director William Bagley...

Part mystery, part ghost story, and all atmosphere, Burning  was one of the most surprising discoveries of my first Fantasia Fest. Set in...

Fantasia Fest always delivers its fair share of oddities, but every so often a film sneaks in that feels like a perfectly preserved time...

There’s a strange phenomenon that happens every time a major studio horror film hits theaters: the hype snowballs. Social media...

It wasn't that long ago that I watched Creature From The Black Lagoon for the first time. I was going through the stretch of watching...

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Dead Mail grabs your attention right out of the gates. We aren't even five minutes in when we see Josh (Sterling Macer Jr.), who is...

Blumhouse Horror, hearing those words can either excite or anger fans of the horror genre. While they release some pretty good titles,...

Control Freak is the latest Hulu original horror movie. In it, Valerie (Kelly Marie Tran) is a motivational speaker who thrives when...

I love Horror-Comedies. I always have, ever since I saw Army of Darkness when I was, like, twelve years old. The only thing that can...