M Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews September 5, 2023 Meg 2: The Trench is a soggy sequel that remembers to be fun too late Wheatley’s latest ends on a gratifyingly silly monster movie third act, but viewers need to suffer through the rest of the film to get there.
P Categories Movies Reviews December 14, 2021 Prepare to recognize all the sights in Death Valley New to Shudder, the genre mashup follows in the footsteps of many better films.
S Categories Movies Reviews June 15, 2020 Sorry folks, it won’t happen again: “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” at 30 Three decades later, Joe Dante's gleefully anarchic monster-movie sequel remains an underappreciated cult classic.
H Categories Movies May 15, 2020 Historical action meets creature feature in the delightfully silly “Monstrum” Shudder brings us a gory, goofy mix of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Tremors.
S Categories Features Movies March 19, 2020 Savouring the Lean Thrills of “Tremors” Thirty years on, the Kevin Bacon monster-Western remains a giddily effective creature feature.
B Categories Box Office Report Columns Movies March 2, 2020 Box Office: Paradoxically, “The Invisible Man” Is Widely Seen A $29 million take spells success for the low-budget Universal horror film, proof that the Blumhouse model works.
& Categories Movies February 26, 2020 “The Invisible Man” Turns Gaslighting Into Chilling Horror Leigh Whannell's follow-up to Upgrade is a chilling, Hitchcockian thriller about the ways trauma follows us around.
& Categories Movies January 9, 2020 “Underwater” Is a Deep-Sea Dive Into Mediocrity Kristen Stewart battles a sinking sealab and aquatic beasties in this drab, but workable deep-sea thriller.
G Categories Movies May 29, 2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters Review: Young, Dumb, and Full of Kaiju Michael Dougherty's entry in the Americanized kaiju franchise is frightfully brain-dead, even for a summer blockbuster.