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The Coolest Biker Film You’ve Never Seen – DETONATION! VIOLENT RIDERS (1975) Blu Review. Strap in and fire up your engines—because this one detonates. Today I'm reviewing Detonation! Violent Riders (1975) Starring Sonny Chiba & Koichi Iwaki in a wild, high-octane biker flick from Japanese cult director Teruo Ishii, newly released on Blu-ray by 88 Films.
A Buffet Commercial Becomes Sentient - Buffet Infinity (2025) Review. Seriously one of the weirder films at the fest so FAR! It's about An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet commercial harbours an alien intelligence which is trying to take over the world. Premiered At Fantasia Film Festival 2025!
The Undertone's MASTERFUL Sound Design SHOOK ME! The UNDERTONE (2025) Spoiler Free Review. A podcast host covering spooky content moves in to care for her dying mother. When sent recordings of a pregnant couple's paranormal encounters, she discovers their story parallels hers, each tape pushing her toward madness. SOLD OUT & Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival 2025.
Why Haunted Mountain The Yellow Taboo (2025) Is So Different From Other Horror Films! A legend in Taiwan's mountains says that when lost, hikers encounter a figure in a yellow raincoat who points to a blurry path, leading them to disappear. Premiering at Fantasia 2025!
This INDIE is PACKED with SUSPENSE - Hellcat (2025) Review. Premiering at Fantasia 2025! A woman wakes in the back of a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound. A voice from the truck towing it tells her they must reach a doctor within the hour or she'll suffer a horrific fate.
It Will Devour Us All! - ICK 2025 Review. From the Director of Detention comes a movie that's like The Blob Meets The Faculty Only Sillier! Science teacher Hank's life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects a new student is his daughter, all while facing an alien threat in their town. In Theaters July 27th 28th 29th! Don't Miss it!
40th Year Anniversary of Nothing Underneath (1985) Blu Ray Review from Rustblade! A Thriller Shocker Giallo You Probably have NEVER seen! A Wyoming park ranger arrives in Milan to visit his fashion model twin sister after experiencing a premonition of her death, only to discover that she has gone missing. Releases July 29th on Blu, DVD and Special Editions!
A VERY Cool Scifi THRILLER - REDUX REDUX (2025) Review! Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly ending her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance. She wants Revenge! Premiering at Fantasia 2025!
How is The Nightwatch Blu Collection? Review - Out Now! Law student Martin works as a night watchman at the morgue to help fund his studies, while a spate of grisly murders is shaking Copenhagen. Nightwatch and Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever represent the high watermark of Nordic Noir and are a must-have for any genre film aficionado. The NEW Arrow Collection Is PRETTY NICE!
An Alien Crashlands Into Our Hearts - STINKER (2025) Review. Three strangers with nothing in common—Sadyk, a homeless old man with a death wish, Nadya, a cold-faced shopkeeper, and an alien hiding in the outhouse and desperate to return to its planet—cross paths in a godforsaken corner of Kazakhstan. Premiered at Fantasia 2025!
Fantasia 2025 just dropped a psychological bomb with A Grand Mockery (2024), a grimy, surreal descent into madness that feels like a found Super 8 tape filmed during a nervous breakdown. Co-directed by Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon—who also stars—this Aussie acid-trip follows a man unraveling under the weight of addiction, paranoia, and some truly haunting inner voices.
Psychological SciFi Thriller - TERRESTRIAL Review. From the Director of Hot Tub Time Machine comes something completely different. During a weekend reunion, a rising sci-fi author welcomes three college friends to his home, but strange events begin to blur the lines between reality and imagination. Premiering at FANTASIA 2025.
Can You Guess What’s In This Mystery Package? INCOMING MAIL! I Opened a PACKAGE Full of UPCOMING HORROR MOVIES on 4k, Blu-Ray and DVD! Arrow, Full Moon, MVD and more! I am pretty excited about watching all of these. SEE what I GOT TODAY!
What is that Terrifying Sound..? NOISE? Premiering at Fantasia Film Festival 2025, NOISE is a chilling Korean horror film where sound is the scariest thing of all. Joo-young (Lee Sun-bin), who has a hearing impairment, starts to notice disturbing noises in her new apartment—right before her younger sister vanishes. As the sounds grow more intense, so does the presence of something dark stalking her home. Tense, eerie, and packed with dread, NOISE turns every creak into a nightmare.
Did This Girl Just Meet a Time Traveler? - REWRITE (2025) Review - Fantasia 2025. Yasuhiko (Kei Adachi), a mysterious transfer student from the year 2311, suddenly appears in Miyuki’s (Elaiza Ikeda) life. Drawn together by his secret, they grow close. He tells her he was inspired by a novel from her time—a book she’ll one day write. On the day he leaves, she promises to write it and preserve their summer. A decade later, as the book nears publication, something’s off. The reunion never comes. Did something go wrong in the past—or is there more she doesn’t know?
Fantasia 2025 had BEGUN! Can Suburbia STOP Hell? | HOLD The FORT Review - Fantasia 2025. After moving to the suburbs, a young couple finds themselves trapped in an epic battle between their new HOA and an onslaught of monsters from hell.
5 NEW CRAZY Thriller RELEASES! Weekly Watched List throws you into a dusty wasteland of paranoia, a killer leaping off the page, a teen noir with bloody consequences, a fame-fueled meltdown, and a wedding crashers-from-hell nightmare. All freshly released, all completely off the rails—just the way we like it.
This BODY HORROR movie was something... ELSE. A haunting blend of grief, transformation, and flesh-warping intimacy, this French indie hits hard and lingers long after. ELSE (2024) Is NOW streaming on VOD—dive in if you’re ready to get under the skin. LONG LIVE THE VOID ✊
These 3 Wildly Offensive Movies Will Blow Your Mind! DIY Splatter! Three no-budget, no-shame splatter comedies that go way too hard. Race War: The Remake, Cheeseballs, and Fisted! bring blood, bad taste, and brain-melting DIY chaos— straight from Wild Eye Raw & Extreme and MVD Entertainment.
Is Hell House LLC Lineage the Scariest Yet? The EVIL is BACK! After a near-death experience, Vanessa Shepherd is haunted by nightmares—and something darker tied to the Abaddon Hotel, Carmichael Manor, and a legacy of death. I break it all down in my review of Hell House LLC: Lineage… An early look at The Evil 5th film hitting theaters August 20th! LONG LIVE THE VOID 👊
