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Movie Review: Isle love Sam Raimi’s return to R-rated, black-comic mayhem with “SEND HELP”
Raimi laces this tense emotional rollercoaster with plenty of his trademark aggressive style, taking every opportunity to play things to…
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Michael Gingold
Move Review: “NIGHT PATROL” IS A STYLISH BUT MESSY VAMPIRE FLICK
Ryan Prows' cops-and-bloodsuckers thriller is a visually stunning and timely comment on institutional violence, derailed by a meandering plot.
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Rue Morgue Manor
Movie Review: “RETURN TO SILENT HILL”—this trip wasn’t necessary
Unfortunately, while some of the atmosphere carries over from the original, dramatic interest, and the fear factor, are largely lacking.
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “KILLER WHALE” is “THE SHALLOWS”—and shallow—with an orca
It doesn’t come up with enough inventive developments once the situation is established, and the CGI used to create the…
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “28 YEARS LATER…: THE BONE TEMPLE” builds up the new trilogy
These filmmakers respect what was established with the prior entry, yet vary the new movie’s pacing and tone so as…
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “PRIMATE” basically delivers “FRIDAPE THE 13TH”
Essentially a Syfy movie done slicker, it has just enough elemental scares and shocks to provide a diverting ride through…
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “WE BURY THE DEAD” is a good way to start the year in horror
It posits a world overrun by the undead as the setting in which to tell a very human story of…
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “ANACONDA”—This one don’t got enough fun, hun
Too many potentially funny ideas are introduced and then not sufficiently followed up on.
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Michael Gingold
Michael Gingold’s Best Horror Films of 2025
The studios—one in particular—made a stronger showing than usual in this list of the past year's top terror titles.
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Michael Gingold
Book Review: You’re gonna read a bigger book with the updated “JAWS: MEMORIES FROM MARTHA’S VINEYARD”
An amazingly thorough chronicle of a long and complicated undertaking that resulted in an all-time classic.
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT” 2025 is a Christmas gift to slasher fans
An improvement on the original in every way.
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “TROLL 2” needs more surprises–and more monster mashing
Let’s hope for something more figuratively as well as literally groundbreaking if this cinematic monsterverse winds up becoming a, ahem,…
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Michael Gingold
MOVIE REVIEW: Chuck Russell’s “WITCHBOARD” remake sets the bar low for his return to the genre
The director of "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS" returns with a remake of an ‘80s cult classic.…
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Aaron Von Lupton
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ’25 Review: “BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL” exorcizes the ill-fated “EXORCIST II”
They say no one tries to make a bad film, and BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL exemplifies that idea.
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Michael Gingold
Movie Review: “SELF-HELP” is “anti-cult” horror with its own personality
It’s more dramatically oriented than an all-out horror show (though the scary stuff definitely lands).
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Michael Gingold
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