The Horrorweb Inquirer #3Horror TV shows for kids, A review on the Backrooms, and Halloween in the summertime?Gavan Prior·12h ago·7 min readFollowhorrorbackroomsgoosebumpshorror anthology
CobwebCobweb is a middling autumnal horror movie rooted in family secrets and childhood trauma. Lizzy Caplan excels at the crazy-lady role and is perennially trapped in it. Antony Starr is hard to mentally …Cory Dransfeldt·2d ago·2 min readFollowmysteryhorrordrama
The Autopsy of Jane DoeThe Autopsy of Jane Doe is standard horror fare. The leads are both extremely capable and it's all bottled up in a single location. The slow unwinding of events is effective at building tension, from …Cory Dransfeldt·3d ago·2 min readFollowmysteryhorror
HokumHokum is a bleak film. It's slow, it's atmospheric and it is dark and, in that way, is not at all unlike Damian McCarthy's Oddity . Ohm Bauman is a writer haunted by a tragic childhood. It's in his wr…Cory Dransfeldt·4d ago·3 min readFollowhorrordrama
Natalie Erika James on ‘My Summer of Love’Maximum Fun | A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supp…·May 28·1 min readbody-shamingsaccharineRelicTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Sick PuppyYour husband is a serial killer. You've accepted that and you lend him a hand disposing of his victims. But you also want him to take a beat and watch a 90 Day Fiancé . Maybe he'll change. You get him…Cory Dransfeldt·May 26·2 min readFollowhorrordrama
The HistorianI received Elizabeth Kostova's vampire novel The Historian for my birthday earlier this spring, and finished it last night. It has been great fun to read. I read Dracula back in 2023, but it seems lik…John Beales·May 23·1 min readFollowdraculafictionhorrorliterary fiction
The Horrorweb Inquirer #1The start of a new newsletter, complete with movie reviews, trivia, and more. This is Issue number 1.Gavan Prior·May 23·6 min readFollowTalesfromthehorrorwebhorror
Aimee Kuge on ‘Dinner in America’Maximum Fun | A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supp…·May 21·1 min readfemale leadsCarolina CarolineTubidirectors
HushHush is a pretty ok horror movie about Maddie. Maddie is deaf, she's an author and she lives alone in a small home in the woods. Sarah and John live nearby and seem like pretty great neighbors. They s…Cory Dransfeldt·May 19·1 min readFollowthrillerhorrordrama
The StrangersDo you think they ever found Tamara? What if they'd had a no soliciting sign? Remember those old phone chargers that inevitably turned into a knot? Or how you used to be able to swap out batteries in …Cory Dransfeldt·May 18·1 min readFollowthrillerhorrordrama
Let Me InLet Me In is a surprisingly tender and sweet film that happens to feature blood, immolation and dismemberment. It's incredibly easy to screw up remakes, vampire movies and remakes of vampire movies (I…Cory Dransfeldt·May 15·1 min readFollowmysteryhorrordrama
Ready or Not 2: Here I ComeCan I have a cigarette? Ready or Not 2 such a wonderful, over the top, gleeful exercise in horror, satanism and camp. The Faculty is perhaps my all time favorite movie, so seeing Elijah Wood and Shawn…Cory Dransfeldt·May 7·2 min readFollowthrillerhorroractioncomedy
Urban LegendDo you smell something? Urban Legend occupies the same milieu as Cherry Falls and I Know What You Did Last Summer but is far closer in quality to the latter. I vaguely remember having seen this before…Cory Dransfeldt·May 5·2 min readFollowmysterythrillerhorror
Cosmic Horror Spellcasting for Violence.Stella, Sandwich Enjoyer·May 5·2 min readFollowhorrorspellsviolence
Cherry FallsClass dismissed! Cherry Falls is a ludicrous slasher that manages to be campy while landing oh so shy of self-parody. A serial killer is on the loose murdering high school virgins so all the high scho…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 30·1 min readFollowmysterythrillerhorror
TriangleTriangle is a late aughts horror gem that takes the aesthetics of a slasher film and wraps them around a time loop ala Timecrimes . Visually it feels very much like Dexter — there's an overlap in timi…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 28·2 min readFollowhorror
Crimes of the FutureThe Cronenberg family has made some of the most grotesque movies I've ever watched. To their credit, they're never needlessly grotesque. Crimes of the Future exists solidly within body horror, which i…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 21·1 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
undertoneUse promo code ABYZOU for 50% off your first meal kit! Movies like this are always fascinating because they hinge entirely on the ability of a single actor or actress to keep the audience engaged. Nin…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 16·1 min readFollowmysteryhorror
Scream 7AI? I refuse. That is the death of civilization. There were plenty of missed opportunities here to have even a vaguely meaningful discussion about AI and deepfakes and, while I appreciate the cheap sh…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 2·1 min readFollowmysteryhorrorcrime
Send HelpHEPL A dash of Lord of the Flies , a splash of Castaway , a douchebag nepobaby boss and the eccentric lady from planning and accounting that said boss abuses relentlessly. Oh and she's a fan of Surviv…Cory Dransfeldt·Mar 25·1 min readFollowthrillerhorrorcomedy
28 Years Later: The Bone TempleSurreal, touching, horrifying and somehow all three at once. Yet another entry into the 28 Days/Months/Years saga that never falters, never slows down and refuses to disappoint. Ralph Fiennes is magni…Cory Dransfeldt·Feb 17·1 min readFollowthrillerhorror
The HomeLook, normally I'd say it's safe to assume that a movie like The Home is bad purely because it's a horror movie featuring Pete Davidson. But the fact that Bodies Bodies Bodies proves that this can wor…Cory Dransfeldt·Feb 9·1 min readFollowmysterythrillerhorror
We Bury the DeadIt's incredibly rare for a truly compelling movie like We Bury the Dead to emerge from such a well-trodden genre. It's not the apocalypse, but in Tasmania, it feels like it is. We've seen this though,…Cory Dransfeldt·Feb 4·2 min readFollowthrillerhorrordrama
The HuntI vaguely remember some controversy around this movie when it was first on its way to a release. Having watched it, it feels to farcical and stupid to have been controversial. It picks the worst caric…Cory Dransfeldt·Nov 20·1 min readFollowthrillerhorroraction
Black Phone 2I am a bottomless pit of sin. Nostalgia and memory are such a funny thing. The further you get from events, the more they fade, become blurry and linger as feelings. Certain moments stand out, sure, b…Cory Dransfeldt·Nov 5·2 min readFollowthrillerhorror
The Long Walk💰🩸🧦👟🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️ The only guarantee you have as a human being is that you are going to die. And, if you're lucky, you get to choose how to spend those last moments. ... Every moment matter…Cory Dransfeldt·Oct 21·3 min readFollowthrillerhorror
Midsommar🇸🇪🌅💐🐻🔥 I've watched a lot of weird movies and quite a few weird horror movies. This is terrifying, but not in the grotesque Cronenberg-ian sense. It's also not as immediate or as overwhelmingly …Cory Dransfeldt·Oct 16·1 min readFollowmysteryhorrordrama
HIMWHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?! EVERYTHING! Then show me. Are you HIM? Is Austin Reaves screaming "I'm HIM" HIM? Is HIM HIM? I mean, not really. It's an interesting, ruminative fever dream about r…Cory Dransfeldt·Oct 8·3 min readFollowmysteryhorror
Primitive War🇺🇸🇻🇳🇷🇺🦖🦕🪖🔪👨🏻🔬🧨🚁 Oh, good. We're following a junkie into hell. The best war movies are often the ones made by folks who don't have historical ties to it and thus benefit from some dista…Cory Dransfeldt·Oct 2·1 min readFollowhorroractionwar
WeaponsThis wasn't what I expected going into this. Not that I had much in the way of expectations. I liked the cast, I liked the previewed tone and I went with it. What I got was a well-assembled horror mov…Cory Dransfeldt·Sep 15·2 min readFollowmysteryhorror
TogetherIt’s called diazepam now! A couple in a relationship that’s teetering on the edge of failure moves to the country for a job. For one of their jobs. While the other one pines for a return to the city. …Cory Dransfeldt·Sep 8·1 min readFollowhorrorromance
Hallow RoadWhen I see a run time so short I expect to either be seriously disappointed or very impressed. Hallow Road left me very impressed. Nearly the entirety of the film consists of Rosamund Pike and Matthew…Cory Dransfeldt·Sep 3·1 min readFollowthrillerhorrordrama
HereditaryHoly shit. Clicks tongue. ✂️🐧🍰🚙💈⚰️🔥🧙🏻♀️ You can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends and this family is fucked. So are your family's friends. But, don't lose your head. Your s…Cory Dransfeldt·Aug 30·1 min readFollowmysterythrillerhorror
OpusOpus is one more entry into a class of dark, horrifying and weird movies that have been en vogue recently. There's Blink Twice , Get Out and — perhaps — The Menu . An otherwise "normal" jaunt turns, s…Cory Dransfeldt·Aug 23·1 min readFollowmysterythrillerhorror
AbigailI fucking hate ballet. 🩰🎱🥃🩸 If you don't have anything nice to say. One of those fun locked in a house oh god what's going to happen horror movies that — as none of them should — doesn't take itse…Cory Dransfeldt·Aug 19·1 min readFollowthrillerhorror
40 AcresThis was a wonderful, harrowing surprise. I love post-apocalyptic explorations whether they're movies, shows or books and went into this knowing enjoy it based purely on that. Danielle Deadwyler shine…Cory Dransfeldt·Aug 17·2 min readFollowthrillerhorroractiondrama
28 Years LaterBoots, boots, boots, boots Moving up and down again This was everything I never knew I wanted out of the 28 N Later franchise. A film in two parts — Spike growing up on a first trip to the mainland wi…Cory Dransfeldt·Jul 30·2 min readFollowthrillerhorror
Dangerous Animals🦈🩸🚤📹📼 Hey baby, jump over here When you do the ooby dooby I got to be there I always shudder before I watch something from Shudder. But this was entertaining. Beautiful scenery, a nicely placed P…Cory Dransfeldt·Jul 28·1 min readFollowthrillerhorror
