the night house movie
Drama, Horror
The Night House

This tale starts off as a wounded woman’s search for resolution and slowly inches its way into palpable darkness.

A group of five young adults looks for clues to a mystery.
Action/Adventure, Horror
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

Tournament of Champions is little more than 90 minutes of evil torment, frantic searches, overacted screeches and foul language.

nightbooks movie
Horror, Kids
Nightbooks

Nightbooks is intended as a kid-friendly horror flick. It certainly succeeds at the “horror” part. The “kid-friendly” part? not so …

masked villain in Forever Purge
Action/Adventure, Horror
The Forever Purge

Apart from the political ideas this franchise tries to unpack, there’s still all that gruesome violence to deal with.

Action/Adventure, Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

Even if witchers were the “better men” that Deglan hoped for, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf would probably still …

A group of people huddle together in a hallway.
Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Werewolves Within

Werewolves Within is a strange beast. So to speak.

Family hiding in A Quiet Place
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
A Quiet Place Part II

There’s a lot here to appreciate if you’re in the mood for a good scare at the movies.

Chris Rock and Marisol Nichols in Spiral
Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Spiral

Between the foul language, terrifying images and bodies being torn apart, it feels like Spiral deserves an NC-17 rating.

A person in a dark space holds a torch aloft and looks quite concerned.
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Fear Street Part Three: 1666

The most disturbing element here is the demonic activity that seeps into nearly every minute of this unnecessarily long movie.

Three kids solving a mystery at camp
Horror
Fear Street Part Two: 1978

A dribbling smorgasbord of gore, exposed teen flesh and enough nasty profanity to make a curse-casting witch feel outclassed.

two scared girls in fear street
Horror
Fear Street Part One: 1994

Tailor-made to be what Hollywood believes a teen audience should be consuming nowadays.

Drama, Horror
False Positive

This pic ends up feeling unnecessarily slimy.

Arne in The Conjuring
Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

This sequel confronts viewers with many gory depictions of murders and exorcisms.

A woman in a white dress stands in front of a tree with many pictures wedged into it.
Drama, Horror
The Unholy

The Unholy, released on Good Friday of 2021, might be one of the year’s most spiritual movies.

Matthias Schweighöfer and Dave Bautista in Army of the Dead
Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Army of the Dead

Is this movie terrifying? Not really. Obscenely grotesque? Oh, yeah.