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Totally Killer is far from a cut above

Prime Video's new comedy-horror movie is short on laughs and gasps.

Bad Girl Boogey puts a fresh & relevant shine on the slasher genre

18 year-old filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay directs an indie horror whodunit with style & confidence.

The Blackening can’t survive expansion

The feature-length adaptation of the satirical horror short falls short on scares and laughs.

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Scream VI takes a gruesome bite out of the Big Apple

The requel sequel efficiently checks off all the slasher boxes without saying anything new.

Halloween Ends not a moment too soon

David Gordon Green wraps his take on the franchise with a bizarre & depressing twist.

They/Them has a clever title, and not much else to offer

An engaging young cast & a timely premise is wasted on a plodding script that stretches the definition of a “slasher film.”

“You Don’t Know What Death Is!”: Halloween II at 40

Halloween II, the 1981 sequel, may be better than many of its successors, but that doesn't make it good.

“Hunted” speaks out of both sides of its mouth

Vincent Paronnaud's over the top slasher film wants to say something about misogyny while treating its female lead as an object to be abused.

Filmmaker of the Month

2009’s “Friday the 13th” reboot turns Jason into a murderous pot farmer

Marcus Nispel's confused, uninspired revamp of the franchise stresses the importance of not touching Jason's stash of sticky-icky.

Filmmaker of the Month

How I learned to stop worrying and love “Freddy vs. Jason”

Freddy vs. Jason is not a good movie - and that's not just okay, it may well be transgressive.

Filmmaker of the Month

“Jason X” goes to space and sucks on so many levels

New Line sends Jason to the final frontier, and sends all the thinly-drawn characters and low-budget kills of the franchise with him.

Filmmaker of the Month

“Jason Goes to Hell” reinvents the Friday the 13th franchise, and not for the better

Jason Voorhees tears his way over to New Line Cinema, who promptly cranks out an entry that warps his mythos for the worse.

Filmmaker of the Month

In “Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan”, Jason (sort of) takes a bloody bite of the Big Apple

Paramount tried to jazz up the Friday the 13th franchise by plopping Jason in the City That Never Sleeps, but the results nearly killed the series.

How “Friday the 13th Part 2” introduced Jason in the flesh

The first film to feature the horror icon in person, 1981's sequel marks the franchise's sway from Giallo-inspired mystery to Jason-centric mayhem.

May’s Filmmaker of the Month: The Friday the 13th Series

For the first film's 40th anniversary, we hack and slash our way through the long, bloody saga of Jason Voorhees and his journeys from hell to Manhattan to space.

Ready Or Not Review: Till Death Do Us Part

A young bride fights off her murderous in-laws in a delightfully droll slasher thriller.

Happy Death Day 2U Review: This Time, With Feeling

Switching from slasher to sci-fi comedy, the sequel to the first Happy Death Day is a light, breezy delight.

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