6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (360+ words) Forget the rankings. The best folk horror movies all run the same buried machinery, and once you see it, The Wicker Man and Midsommar start to look like the same beautiful trap. Folk horror never really leaves. It goes back…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (463+ words) 25yearslatersite.com Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn is heading home. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced on July 28, 2026 that the sixth Evil Dead film would arrive on premium digital in the U.S. and Canada on August 4, just 25 days after its July…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (259+ words) A note before we begin: what follows discusses knives, masks, and the mechanics of on-screen murder in some detail. These proto-slashers shared a conviction that fear is architectural. It lives in the spaces between cuts, in the hallways that seem…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (488+ words) 25yearslatersite.com Twenty-five years after its modest theatrical run, Ghost World remains one of the sharpest, most melancholic coming-of-age films ever made. Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 adaptation of Daniel Clowes’s comic holds a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes for good reason: it’s a film that…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (565+ words) 25yearslatersite.com The Conjuring: Last Rites opened to the biggest global opening ever for a horror film, $194 million worldwide, surpassing 2017’s It. Numbers like that suggest a genre event. What I got instead was a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute tone poem about a couple…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (255+ words) Can a $1.5 million movie shot in a condemned asylum still get under your skin a quarter century later? A heads-up: This review touches on the film’s ending and central twist, so skip ahead to the verdict if you want to…...