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Promotional artwork for Hope, featured in Devin Smock’s More Horror review
01Review / More Horror7.7/10

Hope Review: Nearly Great Until It Leaves Hope Harbor Behind

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.

By Devin Smock
Read at More Horror
Promotional artwork for Goody Goody, featured in Devin Smock’s More Horror review
02Review / More Horror6.3/10

Goody Goody Review: The Demon Is Almost Beside the Point

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.

By Devin Smock
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Promotional artwork for the horror comedy Portal to Hell
03Review / More Horror6.66/10

Review: Portal to Hell is Genuinely Funny. That’s Harder Than It Looks.

Woody Bess turns a portal in a laundromat into a genuinely funny, deadpan horror comedy with sharp character work and surprising emotional weight.

By Devin Smock
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Promotional artwork for the slasher film Deathwoods
04Review / More Horror4.4/10

Deathwoods Review: It Knows the Slasher Playbook Too Well

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.

By Devin Smock
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Promotional artwork for Casper Kelly’s horror film Buddy
05Review / More Horror7.9/10

Buddy Review: It’s Buddy! And Casper Kelly Knows Exactly What He’s Doing

Casper Kelly twists the machinery of late-’90s children’s television into an inventive, funny, and unexpectedly affecting horror film.

By Devin Smock
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Promotional artwork for the horror film Saccharine
06Review / More Horror6.1/10

Review: Saccharine Makes Food Feel Like the Monster

Natalie Erika James turns diet obsession, body dysmorphia, and hunger into supernatural body horror, with a final act that earns its nastiest ideas.

By Devin Smock
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Promotional artwork for the 2026 creature feature The Yeti
07Review / More Horror5.8/10

Review: The Yeti Is Better Than a Movie Called The Yeti Has Any Right to Be

A lovingly artificial 1947 creature feature earns its gore, practical monster, and B-movie charm, even when the middle starts dragging through the snow.

By Devin Smock
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