Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
American Psycho | 2000 | 100 | 1 | (full review) - It is wild, brilliant work that marked a talent preparing for big things. |
Exorcist, The | 1973 | 100 | 1 | (full review) - For evocative, nerve jangling, demonic horror, you will not find better than The Exorcist. |
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | 2014 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - I promise the image of a vampire on a skateboard will stay with you. |
A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - A Tale of Two Sisters is saturated with bold colors and family troubles. |
Audition | 2000 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - Nearly unwatchable and yet too compelling to turn away from, Audition is a remarkable piece of genre filmmaking. |
Calvaire | 2004 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - His film is a profoundly uncomfortable, deeply disturbing, unsettlingly humorous freakshow that must be seen to be believed. |
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - It’s a uniquely awful, absolutely compelling piece of filmmaking. |
Hereditary | 2018 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - Aster takes advantage of a remarkably committed cast to explore family dysfunction of the most insidious type. |
Midsommar | 2019 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - Midsommar is a bold vision and wholly unnerving experience (emphasis on experience) |
Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - As the first film of its kind, the lasting impact of this picture on horror cinema is hard to overstate. |
Nosferatu (1922) | 1922 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - Best vampire ever. |
28 Days Later | 2002 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - The vision, the writing, and the performances all help him transcend genre trappings without abandoning the genre. |
Cabin in the Woods, The | 2011 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - As smart as Scream, as much fun as Evil Dead, this film is as thoroughly enjoyable a horror flick as anything you’ll find. |
Candyman | 2021 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - It is a film that honors its roots but lives so vibrantly in the now that it makes you view the 1992 original from an urgent new angle. |
Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - His feature is gripping, breathlessly paced, well developed, and genuinely terrifying. |
Funny Games | 2007 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - The bored sadism that wafts from these kids is seriously unsettling, as, in turn, is each film. |
Funny Games | 1997 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - His teen thugs’ calm, bemused sadism leaves you both indignant and terrified as they put the family through a series of horrifying games. |
Get Duked! | 2019 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - What does one homeschooled teen and three high school ne’er do wells in trouble for blowing up a lavatory have in common? Impending doom. |
Goodnight Mommy | 2015 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - There is something eerily beautiful about Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s rural Austrian horror Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh). |
Housebound | 2014 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - You’re nervous, you’re scared, you’re laughing, you’re hiding your face, you’re screaming – sometimes all at once. |
I Saw The Devil (Akmareul boatda) | 2010 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - You might even notice some really fine acting and nimble storytelling lurking inside this bloodbath. |
It Follows | 2014 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - The shape shifting entity itself appears in a variety of forms, each a more lurid image direct from some nightmare. |
Joker | 2019 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - His presence is completely transfixing, always convincing you that he is here to fulfill this legendary character’s destiny. |
Mad God | 2022 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - It’s like a Bosch painting and a Tool video accusing each other of being too lighthearted. |
Martyrs | 2008 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - It holds some gruesome imagery, and though the climax may not be pleasing, it certainly doesn’t disappoint. |
Mist, The (2007) | 2007 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - Regardless, it’s the provocative ending that guarantees this one will sear itself into your memory. |
One Cut of the Dead | 2017 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - The manic comedy proves as infectious as the zombiism on the screen |
Open Water | 2003 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - Kentis boasts not just an ear for realistic dialogue and an ability to draw authentic performances. |
The Beta Test | 2021 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - It’s a deceptively layered performance at the center of a biting piece of social commentary. |
When Evil Lurks | 2023 | 90 | 12 | (full review) - This is a magnificently written piece of horror, and Rugna’s expansive direction gives it an otherworldly yet dirty, earthy presence. |
A Quiet Place | 2018 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - A Quiet Place works your nerves like few films can. |
All About Evil | 2010 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - It’s community theater bad, but in the best way. |
American Mary | 2013 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - The images are bright, crisp and classy and at the same time so very wrong – just like Mary. |
Attachment | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Attachment delivers slow-burn horror that repays close attention but never falls to gimmickry. |
Bones and All | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Finding Maren’s way to that epiphany is heartbreaking and bloody but heroic, too. |
Coming Home in the Dark | 2021 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Coming Home in the Dark offers a spare but unblinking span of gritty, punishing thrills. |
Conjuring, The | 2013 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Yes, this is an old fashioned ghost story, built from the ground up to push buttons of childhood terror. |
Cooties | 2014 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - One: It is often laugh out loud funny. Two: It is willing to indulge the subversive fantasy of (possibly all) school teachers. |
Crimes of the Future | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Crimes of the Future is so Cronenberg it’s almost meta. |
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead | 2014 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Wirkola balances comic timing with action pacing well enough to deliver a thrill a minute gore spattered laugh riot. |
Don't Breathe | 2016 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Alvarez makes excellent use of what little we know about the characters to keep us anxious. |
Double Walker | 2021 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - He casts a spell with his feature debut and it’s hard not to wonder what both he and Mix might do next. |
Evil Dead Rise | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - In fact, he uses disorienting angels and shots throughout the film to beautifully bewildering effect. |
Final Cut | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - How charmingly insane is it that the writer/director behind the 2011 surprise Oscar winner The Artist has remade Ueda’s shoestring zombie insanity One Cut of the Dead? |
Flux Gourmet | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Strickland wallows in his own very specific preoccupations. But he does so with such panache that it’s tough not to let him convert you. |
Freaky | 2020 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - It’s a bloody riot, and Vince Vaughn hasn’t been this much fun since Old School. |
Huesera: The Bone Woman | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - While it toes certain familiar ground – the gaslighting of Rosemary’s Baby, for instance – what sets Huesera apart from other maternal horror is its deliberate untidiness. |
Immaculate | 2024 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Immaculate digs into the way organized religion constrains, punishes, silences, bullies, vilifies and oppresses women and then unleashes glorious fury. Fearless, cathartic, bloody, beautifully sacrilegious fury. |
In Fabric | 2019 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Strickland’s audacious anti-consumerism fantasy must be seen to be believed. |
Infinity Pool | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Goth proves once again to be a seductive menace and a force to be reckoned with. |
Inside | 2007 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Holy shit. Inside is not for the squeamish. |
It | 2017 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Muschietti’s approach to plumbing your fear has more depth than that and he manages your rising terror expertly. |
La llorona | 2019 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Bustamante’s film is a slow boil as interested in those who’ve tacitly accepted evil as it is in those who’ve committed it. |
Little Monsters | 2019 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - But the pace is quick, the bowels are spilling, and I’ve never enjoyed Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off more. |
Lovely, Dark, and Deep | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Sutherland’s film is a bit of a slow burn, but once it hits its stride, she throws an unsettling assortment of hellish visions at you. |
Mandy | 2018 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Mandy offers a commitment to vision above all. |
Martyrs Lane | 2021 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Gough’s understated frailty is the unease that haunts the film from its opening, a feeling that blossoms into dread as the tale wears on. |
Men | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - If you can make peace with ambiguity, Men is a film you will not likely forget. |
Mom and Dad | 2017 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - But this may be the most amusing way to spend 90 minutes watching people try to murder their own children. |
Moon Garden | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - https://maddwolf.com/new-in-theaters/sentimental-journey-home/#sthash.vZDhKVRI.dpbs |
Mother! | 2017 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - an allegorical descent into hell, meticulously crafted and deftly told |
Overlord | 2018 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Plus, Nazi zombies, which is never not awesome! |
Perpetrator | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Perpetrator swims in blood and gore and humor and terror and feminism galore. |
PG (Psycho Goreman) | 2021 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - How much fun is this movie?! |
Resurrection | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - The fact that both Hall and Roth take the story seriously, never play it for laughs, and remain so understated in their performances creates a diabolical atmosphere. You’re as unmoored as Margaret. |
Saloum | 2021 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - There is no denying the stylistic mastery of Jean Luc Herbulot’s Senegalese horror Saloum. |
Satanic Hispanics | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - But the collection absolutely boasts some inspired talent having a blast, and when is that ever a bad thing to witness? |
Scream | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - It’s a standalone blast. But if you grew up on these movies, this film is like a bloody message of love for you. |
Sissy | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Dee works wonders as a woman trying to practice what she preaches, earn from what she practices, and find fulfillment in online followers when friends IRL are less welcoming. |
Speak No Evil | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - Speak No Evil is a grim trip, but there is no question that it’s well made. |
Stopmotion | 2024 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - The dual storylines—live action and animation—are both well told, but the real pleasure is in the gruesomely tactile movie Ella is making. |
Suitable Flesh | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - A game cast and a bit of 80s inspired lunacy ensure a good time is had by all. Plus, that’s a great title. |
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - But there’s no denying the power he wrung from the source material. |
The Attachment Diaries | 2021 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - The Attachment Diaries is a dark, bizarre mystery thriller that flirts with B-movie status in a way that somehow makes the experience richer than it had any real right to be. |
The Eternal Daughter | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - But none of it feels gimmicky. Rather, it all creates the space for Hogg to rework facts in order to tell difficult, universal truths. |
The Innocents | 2021 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - The Innocents is a film that sneaks up on you, rattles you, and sticks around for a while after the credits roll. |
The Sacrifice Game | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - The film looks fantastic, and though the storyline itself is clearly familiar, Wexler’s script, co-written with Sean Redlitz, feels consistently clever. |
Where the Devil Roams | 2023 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - It’s a gorgeous movie, the filmmakers creating the beautifully seedy atmosphere ideal to the era and setting. |
You Won't Be Alone | 2022 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - His fractured storytelling suits his purposes of exploring gender identity and the nature of humanity. |
You'll Never Find Me | 2024 | 85 | 31 | (full review) - The third act doesn’t entirely deliver on the promise made earlier in the film, but Bell and Allen have crafted an unsettling and spooky feast for the senses. |
15 Cameras | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - There’s nothing groundbreaking about 15 Cameras, but what it does, it does well. |
8 Found Dead | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - 8 Found Dead, the Airbnb etiquette horror from Travis Greene, brings the goods when it comes to villains. |
A Banquet | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - For all it has going for it, A Banquet answers none of the questions it asks and leaves you wanting. |
A Wounded Fawn | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - The final image – unblinking, lengthy, horrible and fantastic – cements A Wounded Fawn as an audacious success. |
Achoura | 2020 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Children in peril, cool creature design and a monster that still feels new, even though it’s centuries old. |
Alone with You | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - But the reason it works as well as it does is because Alone with You becomes a cagey allegory. |
Antebellum | 2020 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - There are stumbles getting to the fireworks, but for sheer heroic tit for tat, Antebellum delivers the goods. |
Antiviral | 2012 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Visually chilly – all washed out whites with splashes of blood red – and emotionally distant, the world of Antiviral is as antiseptic as a hospital ward. |
Becky | 2020 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - The film is bloody, angry and, even for its fairly formulaic premise, unpredictable. |
Birth/Rebirth | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - All of it pulls the psychological scabs of exhausted parenting. |
Blood Relatives | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - The entertaining Blood Relatives delivers a savvy family comedy. |
Brooklyn 45 | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Goeghegan delivers some jump scares and some gore, but what his film finds scariest is what lies in a beating human heart. |
Burial | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - It’s an understated effort more interested in kicking around how toxic hateful leaders can be once they strike a chord with like-minded populations. |
Candy Land | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Candy Land is a tough film to recommend for a number of reasons, but it’s worthwhile viewing if only because Swab upends every expectation, instead taking us inside a horror grounded in something surprisingly human. |
Devil's Workshop | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - That demonologist is played by Radha Mitchell, who’s both wonderful and evidence that von Hoffman has something unusual up his sleeve. |
Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - There’s a weird charm to it that might particularly delight those who like their scary movies not too scary. |
Good Madam | 2021 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - It’s a savvy, satisfying subversion of history and horror. |
Happy Death Day | 2017 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Rothe boasts strong comic timing and a gift for physical comedy, a skill that transitions nicely to the demands of being repeatedly victimized by a slasher. |
Hellbender | 2021 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - These people are the real deal and I look forward to their next effort. |
Horror Noire | 2021 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Taken as a whole, there’s variety enough in style and substance to promise something for everyone. |
It Chapter Two | 2019 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Does Chapter Two improve the finales of the novel and TV version? Most definitely. |
It's a Wonderful Knife | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - It’s not as raucous as Kennedy’s Freaky nor as badass as MacIntyre’s Tragedy Girls, but it is a bloody slice of Christmas fun. |
Leave | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Herron’s atmosphere makes the safe look seedy and the dangerous appear benign, but there is more depth to the tale than that. |
Legions | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - At its core, Legions is a fantasy about regaining the respect of your adult children, and because of that, it’s both relatable and touching. |
Maggie | 2015 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - It’s a small film that explores something relatable and intimate, even if it chooses an unusual setting to do it. |
Malum | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Equal parts Assault on Precinct 13 and The Shining by way of Charles Manson, Anthony DiBlasi’s Malum is a quick, mean, mad look into the abyss. |
Mandrake | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - The two performers play on their opposing look and vibe not to illustrate differences but to unveil sympathies. |
Master | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - While her story tells of a history of racism that’s clearly alive and well, the filmmaker’s comment on institutional and historical contempt for women is more sly but ever-present. |
Moloch | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Close attention to detail allows a rich understanding of the story Moloch tells. Whether you devote that kind of attention to the film or not, Moloch gets its point across. |
Mother, May I? | 2023 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Writer/director Laurence Bannicelli’s thriller feels like a premise born of either a therapy session or a bad relationship – or, more likely, a bad relationship born of group counseling. |
Nanny | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - But, even for its diabolical sirens and eight-legged tricksters, it’s Nanny’s naked honesty that makes it so scary. |
Orphan: First Kill | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Orphan: First Kill goes in unexpected places, many of them an absolute hoot. |
Satan's Slaves 2: Communion | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Yes, the ideas and even some images are pulled from other films, but the final concoction is utterly Anwar. |
Slash/Back | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Innuksuk has a lot of fun reconsidering John Carpenter’s The Thing – the tale of an invasive species and the terrifying havoc it can wreak – from the perspective of four indigenous teens. |
Smile | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Smile an easily recognizable marriage of It Follows and The Ring. |
Take Back the Night | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Fitzpatrick delivers something raw and believable, anchoring the fable with realism. |
The Advent Calendar | 2021 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - It’s a clever sleight of hand, Ridremont taking advantage of our familiarity with his subgenre when he needs to, while still leaving behind the tangy taste of mystery. |
The Black Phone | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - He’s about eight different kinds of creepy, every one of them aided immeasurably by its variation on that mask. |
The Blazing World | 2021 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Creepy twin stuff, Udo Kier, alternate realities—yes, The Blazing World. I am in. |
The Harbinger | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - What he sees is the way lockdown, hivemind, misinformation and isolation made people forget who they were. |
The Seeding | 2024 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Clay reexamines an existential nightmare addressed many times (I’m Not Scared, John and the Hole) and turns to a mixed bag of horror tropes to limit its impact. |
Unhuman | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - There’s real cynicism lying under the viscera, although the surface-level laughs and shocks help Unhuman masquerade as simple bloody levity. |
V/H/S/99 | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - A new crop of filmmakers seems to channel their own childhoods for five short films capturing the era. |
What Josiah Saw | 2021 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Just when you think you know where director Vincent Grashaw’s Southern Gothic What Josiah Saw is going, you meet Eli. |
When I Consume You | 2021 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - This mostly works, creating a film that echoes with haunting attempts to break a cycle. |
Who Invited Them | 2022 | 80 | 81 | (full review) - Who Invited Them isn’t flawless, but it is an anxious bit of fun. |
Abandoned | 2022 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - Sadly, Abandoned quickly reestablishes itself as the predictably middling supernatural thriller you knew it was from its opening minutes. |
Army of the Dead | 2021 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - It still delivers the goods here and there, but it won’t stick with you. |
Bloody Hell | 2020 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - It’s mean funny, sometimes tone-deaf mean and not so funny, but the often joyously dark humor almost makes up for that. |
Color Out of Space | 2020 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - Lovecraft fans, though, have reason to be excited. |
Destroy All Neighbors | 2024 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - It’s definitely not a great horror movie. But it’s a light, weird, gentle reminder that you may be all that’s holding you back. (And also, loud neighbors kind of suck.) |
Hocus Pocus 2 | 2022 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - But mainly it offers campy, scrappy, bland but amiable fun. |
John Dies At The End | 2013 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - “You don’t choose the soy sauce. The soy sauce chooses you.†|
Saw X | 2023 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - It’s not the reawakening it may want to be, but for fans of the franchise, it’s finally an installment worth watching. |
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge | 2022 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - Being in on the joke, as always, makes the gag more satisfying. But that’s the basic premise of every story told in this collection. |
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | 2021 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It takes on the legal system but unfortunately abides by the law of diminishing returns. |
The Scary of Sixty-First | 2021 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - The Scary of Sixty-First will not land with most audiences. But it’s a wild vision and I’m not sorry I caught it. |
The Seed | 2021 | 75 | 127 | (full review) - Walker wades into dark comedy/satire territory for the first two acts, then abandons it entirely for a dusty, predictable, humorless finale. |
Crimson Peak | 2015 | 70 | 139 | (full review) - Gorgeous period pieces drip with symbolism and menace, creating an environment ideal for the old fashioned ghost story unspooling. |
Virus :32 | 2022 | 70 | 139 | (full review) |
You Are Not My Mother | 2022 | 70 | 139 | (full review) |
House of Darkness | 2022 | 65 | 142 | (full review) - Worse, the point rings hollow, like a disingenuous, cash-grab reversal of In the Company of Men. |
Nocebo | 2022 | 65 | 142 | (full review) - It’s not the body horror promised by the catalyst, either. Instead, it’s a muddled if well-performed tale that leans heavily on an idea that needs to die. |
Ouija: Origin of Evil | 2016 | 65 | 142 | (full review) - He lets the appealing performances and family dynamic do most of the heavy lifting. |
Revealer | 2022 | 65 | 142 | (full review) - It could have been a really fun short. |
The Nun II | 2023 | 65 | 142 | (full review) - It’s fine. It’s rated R, so that’s a start, although I’m not certain how it was deemed so problematic as to deserve the “keep the kids away” rating. There are a few creative deaths, almost elegantly macabre. |
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse | 2022 | 65 | 142 | (full review) - The inspired lunacy of Roache-Turner’s original is gone, replaced with entertaining if forgettable fun. |
47 Meters Down | 2017 | 60 | 148 | (full review) - For a mindless, squirmy summer shark fest, though, it’s a fun time-waster. |
Annabelle: Creation | 2017 | 60 | 148 | (full review) - But there are jumps aplenty and a couple of very freaky images in the third act. |
Antlers | 2021 | 60 | 148 | (full review) |
Annabelle | 2014 | 55 | 151 | (full review) - Annabelle never comes close to the near-classic status The Conjuring reached, but it’s a fun seasonal flick. |
Black Christmas | 2019 | 55 | 151 | (full review) - Takal threads some audacious take downs of bro culture throughout a film with a lot of insight. It’s just not a very good movie. |
Horns | 2013 | 55 | 151 | (full review) - It’s a fascinating mess. |
As Above, So Below | 2014 | 50 | 154 | (full review) - Dowdle and crew can’t quite piece together enough quality moments to deliver a memorable chiller. |
Night of the Hunted | 2023 | 50 | 154 | (full review) - just another horror movie made by men in which the female lead has no purpose or value until she finds her maternal instinct |
Oculus | 2014 | 50 | 154 | (full review) - Flanagan has some real skill weaving the rational world with one full of madness |
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones | 2014 | 50 | 154 | (full review) - Slow in spots and hardly groundbreaking, The Marked Ones still manages to entertain and startle. |
The Wrath of Becky | 2023 | 50 | 154 | (full review) - In fact, every character makes a series of choices that defy the very storyline the film itself is trying to establish. Once or twice is forgivable, but eventually this lapse in internal logic becomes a real burden. |
Dark Phoenix | 2019 | 45 | 159 | (full review) - Okay, some of the mutant vs. alien throwdown on a moving train has zip, but it’s too little, too late. |
Dead & Beautiful | 2021 | 45 | 159 | (full review) - Verbeek lenses a gorgeous late-night cityscape — never sinister, never forbidding, just pretty and mainly empty. Like his film. |
Haunted Mansion | 2023 | 45 | 159 | (full review) - If Justin Simien can’t do it and the Muppets can’t do it, it’s probably time to give up. |
Jurassic World | 2015 | 45 | 159 | (full review) - It’s basically The Lost World with more volcano and less Vince Vaughn. |
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension | 2015 | 45 | 159 | (full review) - Let’s hope this really is their final effort. |
A Cure for Wellness | 2017 | 40 | 164 | (full review) - A Cure for Wellness slides images at you, but it never lays out any cohesive narrative to bring them together. |
Escape Room | 2019 | 40 | 164 | (full review) - The film’s predictable climax and disappointing waning moments are bound to leave you feeling that this movie could have been better. |
JeruZalem | 2016 | 40 | 164 | (full review) - It’s just a waste of a great idea. |
Spiral: From the Book of Saw | 2021 | 40 | 164 | (full review) - And it isn’t clever, it isn’t fun, it isn’t gory, it isn’t scary. |
Brahms: The Boy II | 2020 | 35 | 168 | (full review) - Who would have guessed that director William Brent Bell could drive his lackluster 2016 scary doll flick The Boy to a sequel? |
Cabin Fever | 2016 | 35 | 168 | (full review) - Cabin Fever is an adequate remake of a perfectly serviceable horror film, but there’s something to be said about beating a dead horse here. |
Dracula Untold | 2014 | 35 | 168 | (full review) - For anyone interested in a lucid film, first time screenwriters Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless leave you with more questions than answers. |
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey | 2023 | 35 | 168 | (full review) - Whatever the film’s many – almost countless – flaws, Frake-Waterfield deserves tremendous credit for seeing an opportunity and seizing it. |
Devil's Due | 2014 | 25 | 172 | (full review) - https://maddwolf.com/new-in-theaters/werent-we-due-a-little-something/#sthash.8Mlz1tEc.dpbs |
She Will | 2022 | 5 | 173 | (full review) - She seamlessly blends styles and ideas into a singular vision – no minor feat for a first-time director. |
V/H/S/85 | 2023 | 5 | 173 | (full review) - This is the strongest set of shorts in a V/H/S installment in a while. It’s fun, gory, creepy and bite sized – ideal for the season. |