Movie Reviews9.3/10
Phantasm at 9.3: A Dream With Real Teeth
A tale of a burial keeper, a silver sphere that moves alone, and a boy's fear made real. This paper holds the work in high esteem.
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Category: Movie Reviews
Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
Clive Barker’s Puzzle Box Opens the Same Doors Nearly Four Decades On
A puzzle box opens a door to another world in Barker's 1987 tale of pain, pleasure, and a house of secrets.
Movie Reviews7.7/10
Sam Raimi’s 1987 Cabin Sequel Turns Fright Into Slapstick, and Bruce Campbell Makes It Work: 7.7/10
A man fights his own severed hand, a stream of red pours from the wall, and terror turns to laughter in Raimi's cabin nightmare.
Movie Reviews7.5/10
How An American Werewolf in London Makes You Laugh Right Up Until the Transformation Hurts
A young man returns from the English hills marked by a strange doom, and terror and mirth mix together in this tale of the moon.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Wes Craven Made Falling Asleep the Scariest Thing in Horror
A vision of sleep turned to peril, wherein the closing of one's eyes becomes the darkest doom of all.
Movie Reviews9.8/10
Why The Thing Still Terrifies: Practical Effects, Paranoia, and a Perfect 9.8
A frozen camp, a terror none can name, a company of men who trust one another no more - this paper's solemn account of Carpenter's The Thing
Movie Reviews9.5/10
The Evil Dead at 40-Plus: Why This Paper Rates Raimi’s Cabin Nightmare Far Above the Consensus
A cabin, a book bound in dread, and five friends beset by the woods — this paper rates the terror far above common judgment.
Movie Reviews8.6/10
Miyazaki’s Bathhouse Tale of Stolen Names and Pig-Parents Scores 8.6/10 in Our Latest Take
A dream of swine, spirits, and forgotten names — a haunted, singular vision rendered in paint and light.
Movie Reviews9.2/10
The Godfather: A Chronicle of Tenderness and Dread, Wrought in Golden Gloom
A dread chronicle of family, vengeance, and ceremony wrought with solemn art — a masterpiece of terrible and admirable design.
Movie Reviews8.5/10
Parasite: A Dwelling Beneath a Dwelling, and the Dread That Rises From It
A dwelling raised upon another dwelling, a family walled beneath its betters — a dreadful tale of contagion and secret waters.