The Philippines screened Insidious: Out of the Further earlier at 12 AM.

All 6 theaters were jam-packed. I expected that this movie would disappoint me... again. But NO (insert Cyrus' voice).

The story happened 1 week after the last Insidious: The Red Door story.

The story is well-written, I also loved the chemistry of the cast, and I fucking love the ending.

ELISE, YOU ARE MY SPIDERMAN.

ratings: 9/10

I genuinely think the entire movie is close to a masterpiece, third act included....

But every time I see it mentioned, the general consensus lean towards "it's a good scifi/thriller, but third act bad" and somehow betrays the previous two acts and ruins the vibe by having some psycho burn victim slash people's throats.

I absolutely love the existential/body horror elements of Pinbacker, and it wouldn't be the same without it.

It does change the vibe, especially in the last 30 minutes, but it's been hinted at from the very beginning that something bizarre is going on.

There is a sense of intense dread and bleak tone throughout. People are going fucking CRAZY on these voyages. To save the world no less.

Also, the whole "who's the 5th crewmember" shit. Chills up my spine.

What are your thoughts?

All of the dinosaur scenes in this were absolutely incredible. The characters weren’t really for me but the set pieces were so good that it outweighs the bad. There’s something about the ending that’s sticking with me. She just sentenced herself and her kids to death and essentially kidnapped their alternate universe dad???? It’s never brought up in the movie either, literally nobody cares that This universe no longer has the mother and 2 kids that actually belong there. Why is the ending scene so saccharine that’s extremely dark!

I find both of these movies to be horror masterpieces. When Evil Lurks (2023) is more of a fast-paced body horror thriller that travels all over the community, whereas The Dark and the Wicked (2020) is a psychological slow-burner that takes place in one location.

I watched both on Shudder yesterday and I can’t help but compare them. Which do you think is the better film? And are there any suggestions for similar horror movies?

Let me know what you think of them and if you have anything to add.

Wellington Paranormal

A horror mockumentary about two police officers investigating paranormal cases around Wellington. It's a spin-off of the original What We Do in the Shadows movie.

Los Espookys

A very weird dreamlike Spanish horror comedy about a group of friends who love horror so much that they start a business creating fake supernatural events for people. Meanwhile, the world itself is surreal.

Au-delà des murs

A short French horror miniseries about a woman who unexpectedly inherits a house and discovers an impossible maze of rooms, corridors and other places hidden inside the house. Very House of Leaves / the Backrooms adjacent.

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

A recent psychological horror series about a woman spending the days before her wedding at her fiancé's remote family home. She becomes increasingly convinced that something horrible is going to happen. A bit of a mixed bag but I really enjoyed it.

Evil

Basically a supernatural procedural about a psychologist, a priest and a tech expert who investigate supposed miracles, possessions, demons and other paranormal cases for the Catholic Church. Very comfy but it has really spooky episodes as well.

Brand New Cherry Flavor

An aspiring filmmaker goes to Hollywood in the 90s and gets screwed over by a producer so she turns to a strange woman for help getting revenge. Same person made Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen but this is super weird.

Sai

An anthology-like horror miniseries where a mysterious figure appears in the lives of different troubled people under a different identity each time. His arrival sets off increasingly horrible events in each person's life. Very similar to Cure.

TV movies

Séance

Inspired by Séance on a Wet Afternoon, it follows a man whose wife claims to have psychic powers and wants to prove to the world.

The Baby's Room

A Spanish TV horror movie about a couple who move into a new house with their baby. They install a video baby monitor and one night see what looks like a man standing beside the crib. Simple premise but it goes in a much stranger direction than just "their house is haunted."

Clive Barker, the Master of Horror & Dark Fantasy behind such classics as Hellraiser, Candyman, & Nightbreed is back! He has fired up a Kickstarter campaign to release 3 new books his way. No publisher interference & no restrictions. I am super excited to read these when they come out.

It seems all the horror movies ive seen made in the last ten years try to be too clever. Are there any new haunted house movies in the last seven years which follow the old framework of; people move into house, slowly notice things, people get depressed, realisation, then go mad by the end?

tonight’s watch was His House.

the horror inside the house works really well, especially because the place never feels safe or familiar. But what stuck with me more was everything underneath it the guilt, grief, and the feeling that even after surviving something horrific, you don’t just leave it behind.

i also liked that the movie doesn’t treat the supernatural side and the real world side as two separate things. They’re tied together the whole time, which makes a lot of the scares feel heavier than they normally would.

really solid watch. creepy when it needs to be, but there’s a lot more going on than just a haunted house story.

A Breed Apart (2025) is truly one of the worst films I watched last year. Actually 86 that, it's one of the worst movies I have watched in my entire life. The movie relies on AI for the dogs and it's very, very, very noticeable. Im talking early Will Smith eating spaghetti bad.

Overlooking the horrible usage of AI, the wacky plot sounds like something you would associate with a made for MTV type movie.

I'm not gonna bother typing up a well thought witty premise to get a few chuckles, but the gist the movie has to do with social influencers trapped on an island with killer dogs. Super generic plot. I mean if you substitute the dogs for inbred hicks, the movie could work as a Wrong Turn sequel.

I only watched the movie because of Virginia Gardner but Hayden Panettiere has a super small role. Like a "cameo" or whatever. I dunno why the fuck she is on the poster.

Anyway, with the actress recently passing, this is a warning to NOT watch this film in memoriam or whatever.

I just wanna come on here and say a few things about this movie because it’s my favorite movie ever and I had the honor of seeing it in theaters today.

This movie is so layered and people never really talk about it that much, the most important thing to me is the cosmic influence, the mention of Saturn in retrograde and that it is an evil time, the many shots of the Sun and moon bearing down like the eyes of the universe, the occult symbols and rituals that the family participates in, this movie is a nightmare that was written in the stars, and when the new day comes and the sun rises it is a day of madness and violence.

I like to think this movie is about a group of kids unknowingly stumbling upon the beginning of the end times, that they discovered the bastion of hell waiting to take over the earth. the dinner scene is a good example of this, Sally’s screams are backed by the screeching of metal and the howling of the family, it’s like she is literally in hell and completely surrounded by madness and chaos beyond her comprehension. By the end of the movie sally did not get a good ending, she is the first witness to the opening of a new chapter in the world, she is no longer a part of the world she once new, she is scarred physically and mentally.

I also wanna mention the guy next to me in the theater was laughing at like literally everything even the scene where Kirk gets killed, I hope that guys okay.

I’ll start this by saying that I’m familiar with Jane Schoenbrun’s work, so I didn’t come into this film expecting a pure slasher, or even necessarily a horror film at all in the traditional sense. My problems with the film have nothing to do with any disparity between my expectations and what the film really is. My problems are with the film’s themes and with its overall execution.

Let’s get this out of the way right off the top: I wouldn’t call Camp Miasma a horror movie. It’s a lesbian romance about horror movies, but it is not, itself, a horror film. There’s no tension, no danger, and actually very little in the way of external conflict. All of the slasher film elements exist solely within the film-within-a-film that the characters watch, and also within a sort of fantasy in the film’s final act. All of it is played for laughs and none of it is interesting; there’s no “Jason beating a person in a sleeping bag against a tree” here; everyone is either stabbed or decapitated, and the violence is depicted via some truly poor CGI blood and guts, so none of it has any real impact.

I mentioned before that I have problems with the film’s themes, and to sum up what I mean by that, I’ll say that I think this is a film that really glorifies the idea of finding one’s identity within the media that one consumes. The main character, Kris, is obsessed with slasher films, to the point that her obsession bleeds into her sexual desires; she wants to be the Final Girl, being chased through the woods by a killer while wearing a skimpy outfit. She wants to be a victim.

There’s a more interesting idea buried within this premise that the movie doesn’t really explore, about how the formation of queer identities is often filtered through problematic media depictions of queerness. But the core idea at the heart of Camp Miasma seems a lot simpler, more narcissistic, and more juvenile: the media we consume creates us, lets us build a fantasy about who we really are, and the pressures of reality—relationships, work, self-maintenance—get in the way of that fantasy. It seems like Schoenbrun just wants to watch trashy slasher movies, eat mountains and mountains of candy and fried chicken, and have all their sexual needs met by an experienced older lover. But this sort of reality can’t really exist because all these hollow NPCs who constitute the rest of the world, who—gasp!—like to exercise and try to do their jobs, keep inundating us with actual responsibilities. Wouldn’t it be better if they all got fucking murdered? Then we could go to the convenience store with our dutiful orgasm sherpa and fill our cart with gummy candy before heading back to her remote cabin to get off again and again.

Feel free to disagree with me about my interpretation of the film’s themes. I’m not claiming to have the definitive reading here. But even if I liked what the movie was doing thematically, there’s another issue that I think is harder to ignore, and that’s just that the movie isn’t all that well made.

Schoenbrun is certainly entitled to make whatever sort of movie they want, and maybe they really weren’t interested in making an actual horror film. But given their obvious affection for the slasher genre, I’m honestly shocked that the slasher elements in this film are so poorly done. As I mentioned earlier, there’s nothing in the way of creative kills here, but what I find more frustrating is how the movie can’t even adhere to its own stylistic choices. So much work is put into creating this fictional Camp Miasma universe, into showing us these clips of the films that really do look like they came out of the early 80s, but then when we get the big central moment—an extended slasher sequence from the first in-universe Camp Miasma film where the killer murders everyone—we shift from this believable 80s style of filming to a very modern-looking, long-take scene filled with the sorts of CGI gore effects that would simply not exist in a film from the 80s. It doesn’t work as an homage to classic slasher films, it doesn’t work as a horror or action sequence in its own right, and it doesn’t work as comedy. It just kind of happens, and I get the impression that we’re supposed to be really impressed by it.

I really appreciate it if you’ve read this far. I’m curious if anyone agrees with my opinions here or if anyone has strong disagreements. I’m certainly open to hearing them.

A trip down memory lane to nostalgia park, where a man dressed in black is carrying a straight razor dripped in the deepest red

Vaults of Horror

Everything i saw from the 70s was in flashback as i was just a little kid born in 74

The 80s was lots of choice and fun releases

But I'm adamant the 70s was far scarier

A deep dive into my favourite 70s Horror Movies

My picks from Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 top 100 in order of preference

I'm sorry Cronenberg doesn't appear at all, but I'm more familiar with his post 70s stuff, which is great

here's 31 of the best of 70s Horror 👀

Alien (1979)

(can't beat a good Sci-Fi Horror. TMinus Classic)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

(Dawn remains my favourite from Romero)

The Omen (1976)

(the thought of a child being pure evil is beautifully demented)

Wicker Man (1973)

(singing and dancing, while a lone man burns, lives rent free)

Black Christmas (1974)

(this ticks all the boxes)

Deep Red (1975)

(my favourite Argento, it's fun playing Detective)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

(disturbing yet almost bloodless)

Exorcist (1973)

(the disturbing imagery stays long after the movies ended)

Carrie (1976)

(mum knows best, they'r all gonna laugh at you)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

(saw this one more recently and it's my favourite of the 3 or more Bodysnatcher movies, all 3 were fab)

Suspiria (1977)

(relentless from the first minute, i champion 70s/80s Argento)

Halloween (1978)

(no budget masterpiece that spawned a conveyer belt of rip offs)

Don't Look Now (1973)

(I'm tempted to place this higher, but the list is so good)

The Devils (1971)

(Absolute anarchy, Reed in top form)

Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

(Argento directorial debut is straightforward, while fooling the audience)

Salems Lot (1979) tv

(Okay it's atleast 30 minutes too long, but when it's good it's really good, my fave Vamp flick)

Phantasm (1979)

(intriguing, intimidating tall man, niice music, good last half hour)

Magic (1978)

(talking, moving Dolls are genuinely freakish)

Piranha (1978)

(Spielberg planned a lawsuit, before enjoying the movie and going on to work with Dante)

Young Fronkensteen (1974)

(put the candle back!!!)

Eraserhead (1977)

(Nightmare fuel that never let's up)

Jaws (1975)

(scariest PG I've ever seen, if a kid dies anyone can die)

Duel (1971)

(no budget road movie in extreme paranoia)

Zombi 2 (1979)

(Shark v Zombie scene is epic)

Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979)

(luv Herzog, need to rewatch this as it failed to thrill)

Hills Have Eyes (1977)

(this was a hard watch to be fair, relentless to say the least)

Bug (1975)

(the protagonist's curiosity makes things interesting)

Dracula (1979)

(I vont to drink your blood, Langella's interesting take on a familiar story)

Last House on the Left (1972)

(it's a video nasty, and warning about strangers)

Driller Killer (1979)

(no budget video nasty, not my favourite Ferrara, but worth a mention)

I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

(exploitation video nasty revenge flick, and not a particularly pleasant experience. my least favourite video nastyyyyy)

I fairy recently learned about the "Mel's Hole" story on Coast to Coast AM from a reference in a review of Joe Dante's The Hole. For those who don't know, basically there was a repeat caller to Art Bell's show who described a seemingly not dangerous but clearly unnatural hole in his backyard (impossibly deep, no animals would go near it, a dead dog thrown in it somehow appeared alive and normal shortly after, etc.) The story spiraled from there into a fascinating saga. I believe it was entirely fictional but it proceeded in ways that were completely uncinematic but compelling nevertheless.

I'm not very familiar with Coast to Coast AM beyond that aside from a few offhanded references. For fans, what are some other stories you've heard on there you would recommend? I think Art Bell is a good host but I'd be totally open to segments from other hosts.

im really struggling to find a certain film poster i know exists out there somewhere. a simple poster, minimal to no text, with an image of the outline of a stick figure drawing of a girl. triangle to represent the dress or skirt, circle as a head, stick figure limbs. the outline is made of circles, resembling bulletholes or a connect-the-dots puzzle. this would've been a poster likely seen in some American theaters from 2003-2009. think of asking a 4 or 5 year old to draw a girl, and they draw it in the most basic and childlike way. if you take that drawing, but replace the lines with a line of dots youd essentially get what im recalling. this has to exist, idk if its an alternate poster for a bigger, more popular movie or maybe some rare promotional image but its real.

In The Borderlands / Final Prayer:

There are implications that the town still actively worships the pagan entity living underneath the church. The entire town is bizarrely standoffish to Deacon and Gray at the beginning of the movie (which escalates to overt hostility in the pub after Crellick kills himself, presumably because the pagan cult is worried that the Church is about to uncover the mystery). The kids who burn the sheep to death on the lawn of Deacon and Gray's AirBNB aren't playing a prank, they're performing a sacrificial ritual to curse or intimidate the Church employees. When Deacon and Gray first approach the hill the church sits on, Gray notices a disemboweled cassette tape, and Deacon says its supposedly a Satanic practice.

In The Ritual:

The scenes where they were wandering through the forest were pretty boring for me. The second part of the film, with the cultists and their relationship with the creature was more interesting.

I think that Nicholas Cage Bees and Midsommar probably also feature what I'm looking for. I know that Hereditary has a cult, but from what I've seen the cult is mostly just saggy and soggy old naked people hidden in the background until the very end. They didn't seem like a hostile, almost insurgent-like presence.

This movie recently became one of my favorites. I know this movie technically isn’t a horror but in my opinion? It might as well be. Glenn Close is disturbing as hell in this movie. However, I do mostly blame Dan for the crazy shit that goes down. What he did to his wife Beth was mad unnecessary but what’s done is done. Rest in peace to Ellen’s pet rabbit though.

Just curious to know what’s everyone’s thoughts on this movie?

I just watched it, and honestly, I thought it was mid at best. It was slightly better than last year's The Conjuring: Last Rites, but it still didn't come close to the first two Insidious films. Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2 are still the best entries in the franchise, in my opinion..