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Mike Flanagan’s Carrie gives its first four episodes room to build dread around abuse, isolation and public humiliation, with strong performances from Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan.
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Sarah Appleton and Phillip Escott trace the cultural anxieties that reshaped horror around the turn of the millennium, offering context beyond nostalgia.
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Dave Boyle’s patient, beautifully photographed ghost story pairs striking mirror work and disciplined sound with a nasty final turn that earns its violence.
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Na Hong-jin builds a beautifully photographed, character-driven monster movie around Hope Harbor, before a late expansion into alien mythology pulls attention away from the people who make it work.
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An isolated home birth becomes a nightmare in Raymond Creamer’s limited-location horror film, with striking cinematography, committed performances and an unsettling final act despite uneven dialogue and incomplete mythology.
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Woody Bess turns a portal in a laundromat into a genuinely funny, deadpan horror comedy with sharp character work and surprising emotional weight.
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A low-budget slasher offers a memorable mask and a few effective kills, but familiar characters and overly explanatory dialogue keep it trapped in the movies it imitates.
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Casper Kelly twists the machinery of late-’90s children’s television into an inventive, funny, and unexpectedly affecting horror film.
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Natalie Erika James turns diet obsession, body dysmorphia, and hunger into supernatural body horror, with a final act that earns its nastiest ideas.
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A lovingly artificial 1947 creature feature earns its gore, practical monster, and B-movie charm, even when the middle starts dragging through the snow.
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