Tag Archives: Horror

Double Feature: Cold Storage and The Bluff (2026) Reviews

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Action Movie, Cold Storage, Comedy, David Koepp, Frank E Flowers, Georgina Campbell, Horror, Joe Keery, Jonny Campbell, Karl Urban, Liam Neeson, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Swashbuckler, The Bluff | Leave a comment

The Toxic Avenger (2023/25)

Posted on January 13, 2026 by Sam S-P

Macon Blair’s Troma remix has plenty of squelchy gore and grotesquery, as well as good work from Peter Dinklage, but it never strikes quite the right tonal balance as the original. A terminally ill janitor (Dinklage) runs afoul of corporate … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged Comedy, Elijah Wood, Horror, Kevin Bacon, Macon Blair, Peter Dinklage, Superhero Movie, The Toxic Avenger | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: The Shrouds (2024/25)

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Sam S-P

David Cronenberg plumbs his real-life grief trauma to fuel one of the most twisted yet affecting sci-fi horrors for years. Following his invention of technology allowing mourners to view a live feed of their loved ones’ decomposing body from their … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged David Cronenberg, Diane Kruger, Horror, Sci-fi, The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel | 2 Comments

Review in Brief: Bring Her Back (2025)

Posted on December 9, 2025 by Sam S-P

A horror movie hasn’t made me cry for a while. BRING HER BACK creeps up on you, then pummels you with short, sharp shocks of nightmarish imagery before blindsiding you with incredibly vulnerable emotionality. Arriving to live with their new foster … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged Billy Barratt, Bring Her Back, Danny Philippou, Horror, Jonah Wren Phillips, Michael Philippou, Sally Hawkins, Sora Wong, Talk to Me | 1 Comment

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 100th Anniversary Review

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Gaston Leroux, Horror, Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Rupert Julian, Silent Film, The Phantom of the Opera, Universal Horror | Leave a comment

Sam’s 31 Days of Horror 2025

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Alone in the Dark, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Blood for Dracula, Carry On Screaming, Cemetery Man, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Frankenhooker, Frankenstein, Fréwaka, Ginger Snaps: Unleashed, Gothic, Hellraiser: Bloodline, Horror, Housebound, Insidious: The Red Door, Kwaidan, Lumberjack the Monster, Stopmotion, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, Tales of Terror, The Blackening, The Devil-Doll, The Driller Killer, The First Purge, The Long Walk, The Nanny, The Toxic Avenger, The Witch’s Mirror, The Woman in Black, X: The Unknown | Leave a comment

Frankenstein (2025) Review

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Sam S-P

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Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut | Tagged Christoph Waltz, Frankenstein, Gothic Horror, Guillermo del Toro, Horror, Jacob Elordi, Mary Shelley, Mia Goth, Netflix, Oscar Isaac, Sci-fi | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Sam S-P

A pitch-black, gnarly, body-horror heavy retelling of the Brothers Grimm version of the Cinderella fairytale from Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt. The terminally shy Elvira (a mesmerising Lea Myren) competes with her beautiful new stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) and … Continue reading →