Reviews
The Good Son Review [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 the o...
The Siren Dives Deep [DVD Review]
The creative team from They Look Like People returns for The Siren, providing yet another sideways glance at the darkened internal conflicts of the human animal. Originally The Rusalka – a bett...
Zombi Child Sees Voodoo Through a Contemporary Lens [Review]
It would not be particularly surprising to see Bertrand Bonello’s Zombi Child and Mati Diop’s recent Atlantics come to be known critically as something of sibling films. Both interpolate...
Tammy and the T-Rex is the Lost ’90s Classic You Didn’t Know You Needed [Review]
What happens when you try to make an R-rated movie about a girl who falls in love with a mechanical dinosaur but have to cut the gore for a more family friendly PG-13 rating? Chances are, you end up w...
Second Opinion: The Grudge (2020) is Garbage
The Grudge (2020) opens with some of the worst exposition in recent memory. A woman stands in front of a house resembling the iconic property from the original Japanese-turned-American series and tell...
Murder is Self Help in A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life [Review]
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life is a devilishly clever title for a horror-comedy, immediately invoking the kinds of dark, twisted thoughts many of us harbor about those irritating strangers who ...
Zombieland 2: Double Tap [Blu-ray Review]
After a decade of waiting, the sequel to the now-classic and hilarious Zombieland (2009) has been released both theatrically and on home video. In watching the follow up, this writer realized that he ...
The Siren is an Arthouse Exploration of Grief [Review]
The Siren follows Tom (Evan Dumouchel of Doctor Sleep), a man who has lost his ability to speak by way of an unfortunate accident. While visiting a lake house, Tom encounters Al (MacLeod Andrews ...
The Turning is a Chilling but Confusing Take on an Iconic Story [Spoiler Free Review]
When Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw was published in 1898, it quickly became a staple in gothic horror that would go on to stand the test of time for its terrific prose and it’...