Janiak has more than proven to be one of the standout filmmakers of the current slasher renaissance.

A wildly entertaining, surprising and clever film that solidifies Josh Ruben as a creative force to keep an eye on.

Its setup is more tedious than interesting and nearly all of its dialogue is exposition; even emotional moments are just characters explaining something that happened.

It’s a decent enough start, but whether or not the trilogy will expand on its more engrossing ideas will determine if Fear Street can make itself a memorable and fresh addition to the overcrowded slasher genre, or just be content with supplying overdone thrills.

Vicious Fun, the latest horror hit from writer and director Cody Calahan, is one of those rare movies that actually lives up to its title for the most part. Soaked in 80s neon colors and backed by a synth heavy score from Steph Copeland, Vicious Fun is a blood-splattered and comedic homage to slasher films of old, one with a sharp wit and a cast that’s more than game for the gory shenanigans.

An Unquiet Grave is a chilling tale of grief, guilt, and the consequences of refusing to properly deal with those feelings. There’s no shortage of these kinds of stories, certainly not in the horror genre, but director Terence Krey’s feature-length debut shows that there’s still room for them to be effective.

TAwake is a disaster movie with an interesting sci-fi hook, wherein a mysterious event shuts down all electronics (car batteries and the like included). However, worse than that, people are no longer able to fall asleep. This sets up the usual “civilization starts to break down” apocalyptic mayhem, but with the twist that everyone is quickly losing their minds from sleep deprivation and will die in a matter of days.

hat’s a fun enough premise on its own, and writer/director Mark Raso delivers on the thrills by staging genuinely harrowing scenes–usually shot as one-takes–that have a true intensity to them. Taking a page from Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, the film has a pair of gripping, long-take action sequences (a couple of which are even set in cars) and others filled with a quieter sort of tension where characters try to sneak around avoiding the notice of others. There’s a real viscerality to the entire film that’s impossible not to admire.

The iconic horror filmmaker’s resurrected movie gives people one powerful scare from beyond the grave.

Caveat is a standard low-budget horror setup: it has a minimal cast of only three people and takes place almost entirely in a single location – a spooky house of hidden and not-so-hidden horrors where things go bump in the night and strange noises echo through the halls.

But writer and director Damian McCarthy – who also serves as his own editor and production designer – quickly establishes a uniquely forbidding aesthetic and atmosphere all his own.

2018’s A Quiet Place wasn’t the first movie to use clever sound design (or lack thereof) as both a stylistic choice and a crucial part of the narrative, but it did apply it in a way that gave it blockbuster appeal.

Part post-apocalyptic survival tale and part monster flick, the film gave audiences uniquely tense thrills and showed star and director John Krasinski’s prowess as a filmmaker. As sequel’s tend to do, this year’s A Quiet Place Part II ramps everything up a notch, with new characters, more monsters and a larger scale.

There’s nothing like an old fashioned slasher that racks up the kills and has a terrifying monster at its center, and Skull: The Mask certainly delivers on that front.

An instant cult classic, Psycho Goreman is kitschy sci-fi horror that defies easy definition.

Spiral breathes new life into the franchise will still feeling familiar, and takes the series in a smart direction.

Probably best to indulge yourself and some friends with whatever substances treat you best and settle in for a deranged and thoroughly entertaining evening.

Eat Wheaties! is as admirably sweet as it is funny, and features a career best performance from star Tony Hale.

The film has a true sense of compassion for its characters and their stories, and thanks to exceptionally great performances from its three leads, offers a heartfelt plea and a resigned statement about growing up in a place that not only fails to curb its epidemic of violence, but actively pushes for it.

The latest adaptation of the legendary fighting video game delivers on its violent fights and has a ton of fun doing it.

The Irish vampire film is a refreshingly funny take on the genre that still finds plenty of time for the bloody kills as well.

Both script and direction shine in this stunning debut.