There are bad camping trips, and then there's the kind that makes you reconsider the entire fucking concept of the outdoors. Maclain Nelson's Don't Move takes a church retreat, drops it into the Ozark wilderness, and introduces a prehistoric eight-legged bastard ...

There is something reassuring about an independent horror movie that knows exactly what kind of movie it wants to be. Camp Night, writer/director Isaiah Russell’s scrappy trip into the woods, isn’t interested in reinventing the slasher so much as finding another reason for us to  ...

There has always been something wonderfully fucked up about humanity’s obsession with the possibility that we are not alone. We have spent decades staring at fuzzy photographs, dissecting shaky VHS footage, listening to people describe unfortunate encounters with probes, and wondering ...

Somewhere, an awards publicist is trying to put Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, and “For Your Consideration” on the same tasteful advertisement. Bring cigarettes. You Can See Everything, directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, begins with Holmes inviting a  ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber may have turned The Phantom of the Opera into one of the most recognizable musicals on Earth, but for horror fans, there has only ever been one Phantom. ...

There are few places more naturally suited to a ghost story than an empty theater. The seats facing a darkened stage, the curtains hiding spaces we cannot quite see, dressing rooms filled with the residue of performers who have come and gone—it is a setting that barely needs  ...

There is something immediately appealing about a horror movie that understands Halloween as more than a date on the calendar. Ben Sottak’s Hallowarrior takes its end-of-the-world premise, throws it into the middle of the year’s greatest holiday, and then proceeds to have  ...

Producer David F. Friedman and director Byron Mabe occupy one of those peculiar corners of exploitation cinema where enthusiasm consistently outruns money, good taste, and occasionally basic narrative logic. The Acid Eaters (1968) and ...