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Dog Soldiers

by Craig J. Clark

Before his horror breakthrough The Descent, Neil Marshall made a terrific debut with this movie-crazy werewolf thriller, about military exercises gone terribly wrong in the Scottish wilderness. 

  • A provocative film goes to extremes—conceptual and otherwise—as it examines rape and revenge.

    Felt

    by Scott Tobias
  • Three sisters gather in their childhood home after their mother disappears into the adjoining lake in Sarah Adina Smith’s found-footage horror/thriller, which walks the fine line between unsettling and aimless. 

    The Midnight Swim

    by Andrew Lapin
  • Appearing nearly simultaneously with his second film, The Overnight, Patrick Brice’s debut teams him up with Mark Duplass for some low-budget scares.

    Creep

    by Scott Tobias
  • The idea of a Joe Dante zombie romance sounds like cinephile heaven, but this horror-comedy about a bad girlfriend who hectors a dude from beyond the grave is unfunny, sexist, and out of character. 

    Burying The Ex

    by Keith Phipps
  • A vampire film set in the hinterlands of Canada takes an unconventional, strangely sleepy approach to the genre.

    The Stranger

    by Scott Tobias
  • Till Kleinert’s demented, fairy-tale-esque suspense feature has a repressed cop chasing a crazy, katana-wielding psychopath around the German woods… or possibly something entirely different is going on.

    Der Samurai

    by Tasha Robinson
  • Taking over directing duties from longtime collaborator James Wan, writer-director Leigh Whannell capably continues the Insidious franchise with this effectively chilling prequel set before the hauntings of the first two movies. 

    Insidious: Chapter 3

    by Keith Phipps
  • The new documentary from the director of the Shining crackpot-theory exploration Room 237 takes a similarly moderator-free look at the terrors of sleep paralysis.

    The Nightmare

    by Scott Tobias
  • Gil Kenan’s faithful rehash of Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg’s 1982 family-friendly horror smash about a haunted house in the suburbs is inferior in every respect.

    Poltergeist

    by Charles Bramesco
  • After seemingly hitting bottom with its disgusting second entry, the series just keeps tunneling down with its third.

    The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)

    by Scott Tobias
  • One of the prolific cult director’s best-known features—thanks in part to a groovy soundtrack—gets a deluxe treatment on Blu-ray.

    Vampyros Lesbos

    by Scott Tobias
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin star in a zombie film that brushes against the perceived boundaries of both the zombie genre and its star.

    Maggie

    by Scott Tobias
  • An innovative yet familiar horror experiment looks just beneath the surface of today’s technology and discovers a place crawling with terrors all its own.

    Unfriended

    by Keith Phipps
  • A few years after collaborating with Steven Spielberg on Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper remade William Cameron Menzies’ 1953 science-fiction/horror classic as a dark, subversive counter-narrative to Spielberg’s suburbia. 

    Invaders From Mars

    by Noel Murray
  • Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut establishes him a director of many strong influences, but not quite enough vision.

    Lost River

    by Scott Tobias
  • For the first 70 minutes, Adam MacDonald’s feature directing debut is a keenly observed relationship study about a fractious couple spending time in the woods. Then a bear shows up. 

    Backcountry

    by Charles Bramesco
  • A thoughtful second feature from the team behind Resolution uses the supernatural to explore intimate themes.

    Spring

    by Scott Tobias
  • The fright runs deep in a symbolically rich new horror film from the director of The Myth Of The American Sleepover.

    It Follows

    by Scott Tobias
  • Blaxploitation got its own vampire in a pair of films starring Shakespearean actor William Marshall.

    Blacula
    Scream Blacula Scream

    by Scott Tobias
  • Blaxploitation got its own vampire in a pair of films starring Shakespearean actor William Marshall.

    Blacula
    Scream Blacula Scream

    by Scott Tobias
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