Horror movie history is a topographical map of cultural fears and anxieties, charting the things that scare us and revealing core truths about humanity. The word “cultural” is doing a lot of heavy …

by Jessica Scott, Staff Writer The Annihilation of Fish is a gem of a movie that shows us who we are as humans: strange, funny, sad, and capable of unconditional love if we open ourselves up to it.

by Jessica Scott, Staff Writer There’s something wrong with Longlegs .

Inverse Recommends Paranoia and Practical Effects Make This One of History’s Greatest Horror Remakes (And It’s Not The Thing.) In his first starring role, Steve McQueen closes out the monster movie drive-in classic with words that have become even…

Good satire is evergreen. Nearly 40 years after its release, director Jim Wynorski and co-writer Steve Mitchell’s thoroughly ’80s killer robot movie Chopping Mall takes on a newly urgent and poignant meaning about the dangers of AI and the importance…

Slasher films have historically faced paradoxical criticism. They’re labeled immoral for supposedly reveling in gratuitous sex and violence, and they’re labeled moralistic for allegedly punishing female characters who drink, do drugs, and have sex.…

80 years later, “gaslighting” has become a surprisingly common (and incorrectly used) phrase. May 4, 2024 MGM Inverse Recommends “You know, you are inclined to lose things, Paula.” “Gaslighting” is a popularly used — and popularly misunderstood —…

Everybody loves an underdog. Whether it’s a scrappy independent horror movie, a talented but undersung character actor, or a new late-night talk show host going up against a pop culture juggernaut, we love to root for people who have the odds stacked…

The real horror lies in memory. But also in the spooky mirror. Relativity Media Inverse Recommends Mike Flanagan is a reigning master of familial horror. Between movies like Doctor Sleep and series like The Haunting of Hill House, his work…

“Choices, choices, choices.” Free will is the illusory mechanism driving the choose-your-own-adventure plot of Freddy Macdonald’s neo-noir gem Sew Torn. The confident, idiosyncratic tone of Macdonald’s debut feature — which he directed and edited, as…

“Use your words. I can’t read your mind.” Those condescending words come from the most manipulative character in Icelandic horror film Natatorium, but it’s still good advice. The film focuses on the frustrated, conflicted silence in which family…

Hyperbole can be difficult to avoid when writing movie reviews, especially during the rush and excitement of a film festival, so it’s important to stay grounded and keep a sense of perspective. Not everything is a masterpiece. Unless you only watched…

Lisa Frankenstein is the movie my inner teenager desperately needed. It’s a dreamy, campy, neon ode to the goth misfits of the world; the kids who grew up feeling out of step with their contemporaries and found refuge in sad songs and silent films.…

Annual pop culture juggernaut SXSW kicks off this Friday, running from March 8 through 16 in Austin, Texas. Daily Grindhouse will be running reviews and interviews out of the Film & TV Festival, bringing you coverage of highly anticipated genre…

This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, FEAR THE NIGHT being covered here wouldn’t exist. At their most striking, Neil LaBute’s films are like obsidian: sharp,…

The word “cheap” is frequently used as an insult when referring to filmmaking. Horror films especially are often derided for their low budgets. One of the great things about horror, though, is that creators can do a lot with a little. Budget…

If you told me that Enys Men was a lost BBC movie from the early ‘70s, I would believe you. A throwback not only in look, but in tone and pacing as well, this Cornish folk horror gem is a spellbinding study of an isolated woman facing the weight of…

I’m writing this review as a masked man performs “I’m Your Boogie Man” a few feet away from me. That’s not my typical writing M.O., but it seems appropriate for a film as absurdist as Quentin Dupieux’s Smoking Causes Coughing. John Waters called it…

Privilege is a dangerous thing. People with privilege often conflate having the power to do something with having the right to do it. In MONOLITH, a new sci-fi thriller from director Matt Vesely and writer Lucy Campbell, a wealthy journalist makes…

One of the best things about watching shorts at film festivals is being able to catch gems like DEAD ENDERS. This hilarious, gooey story about night shift convenience store clerks facing off against giant parasitic bugs is a pitch-perfect horror…