20 V/H/S/Mixtape (2026) – Another mixed bag of shorts framed by extremely lame gross-out “humor” starring Gwar. A couple of shorts are really good and a couple are boring or out-of-place. 19 Scarecrows (1988) – A band of thieves trapped in a field with killer scarecrows. Surprisingly well-done for what would seem to be a … More 31+ Micro-Reviews for October 2026
Backwoods killers is a robust subgenre that has been around for ages. Heck, my all-time favorite horror movie is a backwoods killer movie that’s over 50 years old – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (or Chain Saw if you want to be screen accurate) But for every TCSM we get 10 or 20 awful films like … More Dolly (2025) – REVIEW
I knew absolutely zero about Landlocked before last week. Someone in r/horror on Reddit recommended it as a unique horror (maybe they didn’t recommend it so much as say they watched it) so I checked out the trailer. The premise seemed very unique indeed and it seemed like it would be a good creeper that … More Landlocked (2021) – REVIEW
I’ve seen several Reddit posts asking for users’ “scariest” movie recommendations. It seems that every one of these posts will inevitably include Noroi: The Curse. For the longest time, I thought that I had already seen it and thought that it was pretty good but not terrifying or anything. So, when I stumbled across it … More Noroi: The Curse (2005) – REVIEW
Christophe Gans is no doubt a fan of the Silent Hill video games. He reportedly fought to secure the director position for the 2006 Silent Hill with Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean because he cared about the adaptation so much. Well, as we know, that movie didn’t do so great at the box office or … More Return to Silent Hill (2026) – REVIEW
I really liked Evil Dead (2013). It did a great job of taking up the mantle from the excellent Raimi films. It had everything I would want in a reboot – a cabin in the woods setting, a dumbass reading aloud from a cursed book, eerie sound effects/soundtrack, and a plucky protagonist. I even liked … More Evil Dead Burn (2026) – REVIEW
Jiri Barta is a Czech animator who has made quite a few short films and a couple of features. By all accounts, his adaptation of the classic fairytale, The Pied Piper, is his best. After seeing a trailer (well, more like a couple of clips strung together) for it from the boutique label, Deaf Crocodile, … More The Pied Piper (1986) – REVIEW
I largely ignored the Scanners-verse after Conenberg’s original. That one was pretty good. Not one of my favorites from the master of body horror, but definitely worth rewatching every few years or so. When I saw “David Cronenberg’s Scanner Cop” on the cover art (or poster or whatever), I wondered if the man really had … More Scanner Cop (1994) – REVIEW
Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend has become something of a go-to meme for over-the-top, goofy violence with the titular “deadly friend” popping an old woman’s head with a basketball. (Mama Fratelli even!) For years I’ve chuckled at that goofiness, but I’d never actually seen the movie. I knew it was Craven. I knew it was sci-fi … More Deadly Friend (1986) – REVIEW
Who the fuck is Lee Cronin? That was my first thought when I saw the ads for this movie. I am a pretty big horror fan, but his name did not ring any bells. At the time, I didn’t really care. The film was getting mixed reviews and mummies are not particularly my thing. I … More Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026) – REVIEW
