Rue Morgue Magazine
Rue Morgue Magazine is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this
publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following
Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Anton Bitel, Barrett Hooper, Carolyn Mauricette, Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Deirdre Crimmins, Isaac Feldberg, Jovanka Vuckovic, Laura Di Girolamo, Michael Gingold, Rod Gudino, Shannon McGrew
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Alone (2020)
The filmmakers make simplicity a virtue in telling their elemental story, keeping everything on the right side of realistic.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
2
Slaxx (2020)
It is possible to have a ton of fun watching a pair of haunted, autonomous pants on an overnight killing rampage, and Slaxx shows us how it is done right.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
3
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
It clearly strains to come up with a reasonable follow-up...and when all else fails, which is often, they throw in another vintage film reference or past top 10 hit.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
4
Come True (2020)
Burns consistently does a lot with a little, as he delves into big ideas and increasingly unsettling territory.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
5
Bleed with Me (2020)
Bleed With Me is not flashy or gory and monstrous. However, it does stand as an example of what can happen in a cabin in the woods that would shake you to your core.
Posted Sep 4, 2020
6
The Columnist (De Kuthoer) (2020)
The Columnist is a sharp condemnation of those hiding behind their keyboards, hidden inside a hilarious look at a woman pushed to her breaking point.
Posted Sep 4, 2020
7
The Mortuary Collection (2019)
8
The Block Island Sound (2020)
A well-constructed psychological horror vessel, chilly and personal in the right places, keyed into a frequency that's hard to shake.
Posted Sep 2, 2020
9
The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
The true horror lies the way Bertino inexorably undercuts the safety nets we all traditionally rely upon, from family bonds to religion.
Posted Sep 1, 2020
10
Lucky (2020)
11
Hunted (2020)
The interplay of nature and civilization, lore and reality sculpt Hunted into a beautifully rich world of wolf versus woman. The tension is palatable, and the fear is real.
Posted Aug 27, 2020
12
Open 24 Hours (2018)
Reynolds prioritizes shock moments over psychological acuity, and occasional implausibilities--like the roomiest gas-station bathroom you'll ever see--don't help.
Posted Aug 19, 2020
13
She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
The film has emerged at a time when its themes are especially relevant, but it taps into timeless anxieties about fate and the future.
Posted Aug 7, 2020
14
Black Water: Abyss (2020)
Traucki builds a mounting sense of claustrophobia and menace, and giving us only fleeting glimpses of the croc adds to the horror.
Posted Aug 7, 2020
15
Random Acts of Violence (2020)
Along with a potent meta look at the genre, Jay Baruchel has also crafted a full-blooded horror film.
Posted Jul 30, 2020
16
Amulet (2020)
It carries us into eventually surreal territory that nonetheless remains rooted in workaday reality--Ken Loach meets Ken Russell.
Posted Jul 24, 2020
17
The Oak Room (2020)
The stories themselves, though well executed, are not nearly engaging enough to carry the entire film.
Posted Jul 17, 2020
18
The Beach House (2020)
With a modest budget and scope, Brown nonetheless elicits a sense of engulfing biological apocalypse.
Posted Jul 9, 2020
19
Homewrecker (2019)
Demonstrates what can be achieved with one principal setting, two skilled performers, a tight, sharp script and a director who brings pace and color to the material.
Posted Jul 6, 2020
20
Relic (2020)
Quiet and measured in the way it generates fear, the movie is built on a base of acutely observed character.
Posted Jul 3, 2020
21
Followed (2020)
It's shot and assembled well, and there's still, even after so many other movies like this, a built-in tension to the first-person immediacy of the presentation.
Posted Jul 1, 2020
22
Scare Package (2019)
When a movie's primary goal is to demonstrate that it's smarter than the genre's run-of-the-mill, comparison with others of its type is unavoidable.
Posted Jun 26, 2020
23
You Should Have Left (2020)
Writer/director David Koepp has taken on familiar genre themes and personalized them in compelling ways.
Posted Jun 18, 2020
24
Dreamland (2020)
It doesn't add up to much more than the sum of its eccentric parts, and it doesn't go whole hog enough into its craziness.
Posted Jun 9, 2020
25
Becky (2020)
Wilson provides a spark that the plotting, and some of the other performances, could have used more of.
Posted Jun 3, 2020
26
The Jack in the Box (2020)
Everything that happens in the movie is as inevitable as the jack popping out of the box at the end of "Pop Goes the Weasel."
Posted May 6, 2020
27
28
Behind You (2020)
The kind of horror film whose plot depends on its central characters being remarkably uninformed.
Posted Apr 17, 2020
29
Butt Boy (2020)
Its matter-of-factness about its bizarre premise is part of what makes Butt Boy oddly engaging.
Posted Apr 14, 2020
30
Sea Fever (2020)
It proves startlingly well-timed given what's going on in the world today. But it has more than timeliness on its side.
Posted Apr 10, 2020
31
The Room (2019)
32
The Toll (2020)
Eschewing CGI excess and editing trickery, Nader keeps things simple, knowing that you can deliver a shiver with the right lighting on some unnerving makeup and costumes.
Posted Mar 16, 2020
33
The Hunt (2020)
The film drops bombs on either side of the political fence, skewering both opposing points of view with equal vigor and bloody glee.
Posted Mar 11, 2020
34
The Invisible Man (2020)
Following up his knockout Upgrade, Whannell delivers another tech-infused yet human-scaled, consistently tense genre piece anchored by a terrific lead performance.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
35
Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
It's all too tame (this is barely PG-13 stuff) and generic for hardcore horror fans, and-well, too tame and generic for anyone else, either.
Posted Feb 20, 2020
36
Fantasy Island (2020)
It's underheated for the first hour or so and absurdly overplotted in its final act.
Posted Feb 14, 2020
37
Leap of Faith (2019)
Friedkin alternates theory with production specifics to give a fully rounded and fleshed-out account of the singular achievement The Exorcist is.
Posted Feb 6, 2020
38
Gretel & Hansel (2020)
The anti-Maleficent...[the filmmakers have] aimed straight for the dark heart of the legend, and it's been brought off with impeccable, intoxicating craft.
Posted Jan 30, 2020
39
Color Out of Space (2020)
Stanley successfully takes on the challenge of translating Lovecraft's prose, with its unknowable, indescribable terrors, to the more concrete medium of film.
Posted Jan 24, 2020
40
The Turning (2020)
It gets some decent Gothic creep on before completely falling apart in an ending that tries to be way too tricky for its own good.
Posted Jan 24, 2020
41
The Sonata (2020)
A film that hits some of the right notes without coming together as a fully realized piece.
Posted Jan 10, 2020
42
Underwater (2020)
While it's true that Underwater doesn't do much that's new, it must be said that it does it quite well.
Posted Jan 8, 2020
43
The Dead Ones (2019)
a juddery, disorienting trip into the psyche of the school shooter, as well as a catabasis into the mor(t)ality of crime, punishment, and maybe even redemption.
Posted Dec 13, 2019
44
Black Christmas (2019)
It wears its messaging on its sleeve to the point where it sometimes overwhelms the horror-and then loses the message when it goes full-bore genre at the end.
Posted Dec 12, 2019
45
Dead End (Punto muerto) (2018)
46
In Search of Darkness (2019)
You might find the volume of information overwhelming at first because they come at you with a rapid-fire pace, but once you settle in, this documentary is a great ride.
Posted Nov 5, 2019
47
What seems like a fun horror film becomes a slog when it takes itself too seriously.
Posted Nov 5, 2019
48
Doctor Sleep (2019)
A worthy screen follow-up to Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING that also stands on its own as one of the very best King movies ever made.
Posted Oct 30, 2019
49
The Lighthouse (2019)
It sees its creator ably beating the sophomore jinx, sustaining a mood that's every bit as entrancingly eerie as The Witch's.
Posted Oct 18, 2019
50