Tag Archives: Horror

2035: The Green Light (2025) ☆☆(2/4): An uneven mix between mockumentary and found footage horror

Posted on May 11, 2026 by kaist455

South Korean independent film “2035: The Green Light” intrigued me at first and then frustrated me a lot later. At first, it comes to us as a rather amusing mockumentary comedy about the sudden unification of South and North Korea … Continue reading →

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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A Mummy flick a la “The Exorcist”

Posted on April 28, 2026 by kaist455

“Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” is supposed to be one thing at the beginning but then turns out to be some other thing in the end, and I enjoyed that to some degree. While it does not bring anything particularly new … Continue reading →

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Salmokji: Whispering Water (2026) ☆☆☆: A reservoir of horror

Posted on April 14, 2026 by kaist455

South Korean horror film “Salmokji: Whispering Water” is ready to unnerve and then scare you from the very beginning, and it did its job as well as intended. While this is a very typical horror movie about your average haunted … Continue reading →

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The Bride! (2026) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): This bride is wild!

Posted on March 6, 2026 by kaist455

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s latest film “The Bride!” is a wild mess which alternatively fascinates and distracts you. Loosely inspired by Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic novel “Frankenstein”, the movie attempts to try a lot of different things ranging from horror to musical, … Continue reading →

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) ☆☆☆(3/4): It will give you more hell

Posted on February 27, 2026 by kaist455

Nia DaCosta’s new film “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”, the sequel to “28 Years Later” (2025), is a dark and brutal horror story decorated with human evil and some raging zombies. While you will surely cringe more than once … Continue reading →

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Primate (2025) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Menaced by a mad chimpanzee (no kidding)

Posted on February 1, 2026 by kaist455

“Primate” is your typical mad killer movie with a rather amusing twist on its story premise. This time, we get a murderously raging ape at the center of the story, and the movie surely has a lot of vicious but … Continue reading →

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Videodrome (1983) ☆☆☆(3/4): A grotesquely prophetic nightmare from Cronenberg

Posted on January 27, 2026 by kaist455

David Cronenberg’s 1983 film “Videodrome” is a grotesquely prophetic nightmare I still observe from the distance. There are a number of striking visual moments which have lingered on somewhere in my mind for more than 30 years, and they chillingly … Continue reading →

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The Monkey (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): This is one nasty monkey

Posted on December 10, 2025 by kaist455

“The Monkey”, one of the two films from Osgood Perkins during this year, is a creepy film about one nasty toy monkey and several people who unfortunately happens to get involved with it. As striking us hard with several moments … Continue reading →

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Black Phone 2 (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): He’s back, of course.

Posted on October 30, 2025 by kaist455

“Black Phone 2” is a sequel which is seemingly unnecessary at first but turns out to be more entertaining than expected. While it is closely connected with its predecessor in terms of story and characters, the movie wisely avoids being … Continue reading →

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Exit 8 (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Trapped in a loop

Posted on October 24, 2025 by kaist455

Japanese film “Exit 8” is simple but effective in its rather limited setting. Based on the 2023 Japanese video game of the same name, the movie follows the desperate struggles of a few figures helplessly trapped in a seemingly endless … Continue reading →

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