Reviews
The Swerve is Emotionally Devastating [Review]
Women tend to handle the lion’s share of the emotional labor in even the most progressive households. The Swerve, writer-director Dean Kapsalis’ stunning debut feature, posits the idea t...
Violation’s Revenge Is A Dish Served a Little Too Cold [TIFF Midnight Madness Review]
Violation is a film that drifts along on a tangible creeping dread, the hairs standing up on the back of your neck, like waking up after a particularly harrowing nightmare. Tall trees resemble the sen...
Rent-A-Pal: Who Says Friends Can’t be Bought? [Review]
Just when you thought the film industry was running out of original ideas, filmmaker Jon Stevenson was exploring the weird side of the Internet and stumbled onto a digitized version of an old VHS tape...
Murder in the Woods has a Unique Latinx Flair, but is Ultimately a Flop [Review]
Murder in the Woods follows a group of college-age friends who head to a private cabin in the woods for a birthday celebration. The group consists of standard 80s horror stereotypes: the shy nerd...
Anything for Jackson is Pure Nightmare Fuel [Fantasia Review]
It’s been a while since an elderly couple were the villains in a horror movie. The Visit was five years ago, if you can believe it (funnily enough, it sucks even more now than it did back then ...
The Stephen King 5-Movie Collection is a Great Deal if You Don’t Already Own the Films on Blu-ray [Review]
Paramount’s Stephen King 5-Movie Collection is now available on Blu-ray, and it contains a pretty great lineup. If you’re a King fan and you don’t already own the original Pet Sema...
Giallo Madness: Strip Nude for Your Killer
Giallo Madness is a recurring segment where Wicked Horror managing editor Tyler Doupe’ looks back on a noteworthy giallo from years past and makes a case for why it should be on your radar...
Love Hunter Is A Darkly Erotic, Controversial Time Capsule Of 1970s Japan [ Blu Ray Review]
Nikkatsu Corporation, the studio responsible for Love Hunter, is one of Japan’s oldest movie studios. The company has been creating feature films intermittently since its founding in 1912. Nikka...
The Final Girl: Dancing Between Feminism and Misogyny
The slasher is arguably the most popular (and profitable) horror movie sub-genre. Historically, there are a specific set of guidelines that a slasher film must abide by to succeed. There must be a der...