Reviews
The Undertaker’s Home is Chillingly Effective [Fantasia Review]
Argentinian horror is enjoying a bit of a moment, with Terrified scaring the pants off Shudder audiences and The Bar making them laugh and scream in equal measure while, just a few years ago, the live...
Intensity: More Reasons High Tension Ripped Off Dean Koontz [The Rabid Dog’s House]
The Rabid Dog’s House is a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where contributor Justin Steele uncovers hidden gems, lost classics, and overlooked indie offerings. Flying solo or with his c...
The Mortuary Collection Is A Frightfully Fun And Stylish Anthology [Fantasia Review]
Ryan Spindell’s The Mortuary Collection has had a long, strange journey to Fantasia Fest. His short The Babysitter Murders was well received on the festival circuit back in 2015, but due to spor...
Fried Barry Is An Alien Abduction Acid Test [Fantasia Review]
Fried Barry is based on the 2017 short film of the same name. South African director Ryan Kruger expanded the original short into his first full-length feature film effort, currently showing at Fantas...
Unearth Should Have Stayed Buried [Fantasia Review]
Unearth is a horror movie about fracking but it’s actually much drier than that description would suggest. The film, co-directed by John C. Lyons and Dorota Swies from a script credited to Lyon...
Sleep (AKA Schlaf) Will Definitely Keep You Up At Night [Fantasia Review]
As scary as sleep paralysis, intense nightmares, etc. are there are very few horror movies that actually deal with these conditions effectively; Sleep (or Schlaf, auf Deutsch) looks set to cha...
Woman of the Photographs Takes Time Developing its Dark Romance [Fantasia Review]
Woman Of The Photographs opens with a reflection in a shop window, a small photo studio in an unspecified Japanese city. Sai (Hideki Nagai), the owner and only photographer, steps out to clean the gla...
Zombie Comedy, Yummy Is Far From Delicious [Fantasia Review]
As many undead hordes as have shuffled across screens in the past two decades, Lars Damoiseaux’s Yummy is likely the only one created with the assistance of the VAF, a Flemish arts grant usually...
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula is Fun as Hell [Review]
What if John Wick fought zombies? That’s the question Yeon Sang-ho seems to be answering in Peninsula, the follow-up to his instant classic zombie flick Train to Busan. That film succeeded for ...