“CARRIE” (2026) – A Timely and Necessary Reimagining (Season 1 Review)
⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 MILD SPOILERS AHEAD – We Suggest Watching the Entire Season Before Reading This Review Why? It’s usually the first question that pops into our heads when a film or…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER: “TRICK OR TREAT” (1986) – 40 Years on and Still No Wimps, No False Metal
With Mike Flanagan’s Carriebreaking Amazon records and the new Peacock hit Crystal Lake giving the Friday the 13thfranchise its best critical appraisal ever, it’s important to remember that the trope…
“CRYSTAL LAKE” (2026) – Where Monsters are Made, Not Born [SERIES REVIEW]
⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 MILD SPOILERS AHEAD – We Suggest Watching the Entire Season Before Reading This Review Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is an entire world of difference from what cinema-goers would get used…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER: “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER” (1997) – Nearly 30 Years On, and its Secret is Still Safe with Us
On the night of the small fishing town’s 4th of July festivities, a small group of graduates go out to party and celebrate their future aspirations – all of which…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER: “DEADLY FRIEND” (1986) Wes Craven Feeds His Frankenstein
Little House on the Prairie star Matthew Labyorteaux plays Paul Conway, a high school wunderkind who has just moved into a new neighborhood with his mother (Anne Twomey) and his…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER: “CRIES IN THE NIGHT” (aka “FUNERAL HOME”) (1980) Where Chalmers the Embalmers “Bury” Their Secrets!
Teenage girl Heather (Happy Birthday to Me’s Lesleh Donaldson) buses up to her pious grandmother’s house deep in the countryside to help her convert it from a funeral home to…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER – “HUNTER’S BLOOD” (1986) A 40-Year-Old Reminder to Watch One’s Mouth
Return of the Living Dead’s Clu Gulager and Ken Swofford play a couple of old Oklahoma deer hunters named Mason and Al, taking Mason’s son David (East of Eden’s Sam…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER: “STAY ALIVE”- UNRATED DIRECTOR’S CUT (2006) – A Cartridge Worth Blowing the Dust Out of After 20 Years
If you take into account the influx of early-2000’s “tech-horror” films (which were mostly remakes of already established J-Horror flicks about evil technology like The Ring, Phone, Pulse, One Missed…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER: “THE QUIET” (2005) – When Dark Family Secrets Scream Silently for Attention
After the death of her father, Dot (Practical Magic’s Camilla Belle) is sent to live with her godparents, Paul (Insomnia’s Martin Donovan) and Oliva Deer (Edie Falco from The Sopranos),…
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SLAUGHTER: “THE CONJURING: LAST RITES” (2025) A Creepy But Underwhelming Finale
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return for one last time (as of this writing) as an aging Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are finally tinkering with the idea of retirement.…