Category Archives: New Release

Episode 191 – Stopmotion

December 15, 2024Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, New Release, VOD ReleaseAdaptation (2002), Aisling Franciosi, Black Swan, Blood Tea and Red String, Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, Mad God, May (2002), Repulsion, Robert Morgan, Vincent (1982), Wendell & Wildshockdoctors

Robert Morgan is a gifted animator, but the stopmotion vignettes that give this film its narrative spine don’t tell enough of a story to keep us fully invested. That said, Aisling Franciosi is terrific.

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Episode 190 – Apartment 7A

December 1, 2024Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, New Release, Period Piece, Prequel, VOD ReleaseDianne Wiest, Inferno (1980), Inside (2007), Julia Garner, Kevin McNally, Natalie Erika James, Relic (2020), Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria (1977), Suspiria (2018), The Company (2003), The First Omen, The Sentinelshockdoctors

This Rosemary’s Baby prequel has visual style and strong performances, but fails to engender the same paranoid dread as the original.

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Episode 189 – Heretic (2024)

November 24, 2024New Release, Serial Killer, Theatrical ReleaseBarbarian, Bryan Woods, Chloe East, Creep, Haunt (2019), Hugh Grant, Monopoly, Scott Beck, Sophie Thatcher, The Air That I Breathe, The Caller (1987), The Prestige, The Sacrament (2013), Topher Graceshockdoctors

Heretic has some intelligent, though not groundbreaking, things to say about religion and society, and is built around three strong performances, Hugh Grant in particular. Unfortunately, the script’s minimal modulation of his character’s villainy leaves the movie nowhere to go.

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Episode 188 – Salem’s Lot (2024)

November 10, 2024New Release, Period Piece, Vampires30 Days of Night, Alfre Woodard, Annabelle: Creation, Bill Camp, Fright Night (1985), Fright Night (2011), Gary Dauberman, Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Nosferatu, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Pilou Asbaek, Salem’s Lot (1979), Salem’s Lot (2004), Stephen Kingshockdoctors

Gary Dauberman’s long-delayed Stephen King adaptation is pleasantly old-fashioned and shows flashes of panache, but is ultimately light on scares and pretty disposable.

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Episode 187 – Smile 2

October 27, 2024Body Horror, New Release, Possession, Sequel, Theatrical ReleaseAll That Jazz, Apocalypse Trilogy, Black Swan, Cat’s Eye, Firestarter (1984), In the Mouth of Madness, Naomi Scott, Parker Finn, Peter Jacobson, Prince of Darkness, Ray Nicholson, The Thing (1982), Vox Luxshockdoctors

Bigger and dumber than its predecessor, Smile 2 trudges through an interminable series of foregone conclusions while screaming its themes at the audience as loudly as possible.

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Episode 186 – Never Let Go (2024)

October 20, 2024New Release, Theatrical Release10 Cloverfield Lane, Alexandre Aja, Arcadian, Bird Box, Crawl (2019), Frailty, Halle Berry, Run, The Hills Have Eyes (2006), The Villageshockdoctors

Alexandre Aja’s latest film fails to maintain enough ambiguity to sustain its middle hour, and the ending raises more questions than the audience, after 101 minutes, will really feel motivated to answer.

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Episode 185 – The Substance

October 6, 2024Body Horror, New Release, Theatrical ReleaseAltered States, Angst (1983), Antiviral, Black Swan, Braindead, Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Giallo Murder Gnome, Margaret Qualley, Requiem for a Dream, Seconds (1966), Society (1989), The Double (2013)shockdoctors

The Substance is a movie with three standout performances and a lot of panache that is weighted down by its own excesses, and a habit of repeating itself.

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Episode 184 – Speak No Evil (2024)

September 30, 2024New Release, Remake, Serial Killer, Theatrical ReleaseAisling Franciosi, Eden Lake, James McAvoy, James Watkins, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, The Ring (2002), The Vanishing (1988), The Vanishing (1993), The Woman in Black (2012)shockdoctors

This remake of the 2022 Danish film suffers from a stultifying fidelity to the original – except in two major respects, where there has been a decided downgrade. A waste of a very strong cast.

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Episode 183 – The Front Room

September 22, 2024Body Horror, Horror Comedy, New Release, Theatrical Release“Gramma”, A24 Horror, Beau is Afraid, Brandy Norwood, Dogma, Kathryn Hunter, Max Eggers, Robert Eggers, Salo, Sam Eggers, The House of the Devil, The Woman in Black (1989)shockdoctors

The directorial debut of Robert Eggers’ younger brothers Max and Sam is an uneasy mishmash of influences, on top of being a tedious scatological assault on the senses.

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Episode 182 – AfrAId

September 15, 2024New Release, Theatrical Release2001: A Space Odyssey, Chris Weitz, Colossus: The Forbin Project, David Dastmalchian, I Robot, John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Keith Carradine, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Terminatorshockdoctors

While the Shock Doctors share most of Chris Weitz’s feelings about AI and other facets of modernity, the actual film he’s assembled is a muddled hodgepodge of grievances that never coheres.

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