Rue Morgue Magazine
Rue Morgue Magazine is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this
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Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Anton Bitel, Barrett Hooper, Carolyn Mauricette, Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander, Deirdre Crimmins, Isaac Feldberg, Jovanka Vuckovic, Julieann Stipidis, Laura Di Girolamo, Michael Gingold, Rod Gudino, Shannon McGrew
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Piggy (2022)
An engrossing study of a perpetually put-upon young woman shedding her victimhood under the most dire circumstances.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
2
Crabs! (2021)
I always enjoy a good nature-amok flick, or even a not-so-great one that's been done with enthusiasm, so I had a pretty decent time with this one.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
3
Something In The Dirt (2022)
[Benson and Moorhead] prove to be as convincing as actors as they are shrewd as filmmakers, creating the ultimate pandemic genre production.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
4
Hatching (2021)
Bergholm keeps [the themes of adolescence] balanced while also allowing the horrific content to achieve full flower.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
5
Scream (2022)
The best in the series since Scream 2, with directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett bringing the same vigor they did to Ready or Not.
Posted Jan 12, 2022
6
See For Me (2022)
So many isolation thrillers depend on "There's no service up here!" that having cell-phone communication as a key plot device already makes See For Me subversive.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
7
Achoura (2018)
Using a flash-forward, flash-back structure, Selhami effectively builds tension and a sense of confusion.
Posted Jan 5, 2022
8
The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)
While your response may vary, there's no denying the force of Nekrasova's filmmaking or the legitimacy of the messages she seeks to convey.
Posted Dec 24, 2021
9
Nightmare Alley (2021)
I don't think I've fallen in love with the world of a film faster than I did during the opening minutes of Nightmare Alley.
Posted Dec 16, 2021
10
If you want to see something that plays just like the video game, play the video game.
Posted Nov 23, 2021
11
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
[Phoebe is] imbued by Grace with vulnerability, smarts and determination...but it would have been cool to see more originality in the spirit brigade.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
12
Roh (Soul) (2021)
It will appeal to those curious about the international horror scene and fans of slow-burn, atmospheric terror, even if it doesn't add up to much storywise.
Posted Nov 18, 2021
13
While the Amish environment provides a change of scene... [it] mitigates the fear factor of its predecessors: the sense of evil invading one's own home and family.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
14
Antlers (2021)
Rife with subtext, ,Antlers is also rich with mood.
Posted Oct 25, 2021
15
The Changed (2022)
16
Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
It's less a shocking, scary horror film (though there is plenty of gore) than a winking homage to/deconstruction of the genre's tropes.
Posted Oct 15, 2021
17
Halloween Kills (2021)
The study of the impact of trauma and horror on individual and collective psyches would land stronger if the film itself wasn't so bloodthirsty and sadistic.
Posted Oct 12, 2021
18
Malignant (2021)
Too often, it's hard to know whether Wan and co. are kidding or not.
Posted Sep 9, 2021
19
Slapface (2021)
Kipp successfully weaves an observant study of the cruel realities of growing up with supernatural themes, in which each complements the other.
Posted Sep 2, 2021
20
Martyrs Lane (2021)
21
Hellbender (2021)
What gives its frights weight and meaning is the finely tuned relationship between its central parent and maturing child.
Posted Aug 27, 2021
22
Candyman (2021)
Never less than intriguing and often attention-grabbing, it's also uneven and a little messy in its development.
Posted Aug 27, 2021
23
What Josiah Saw (2021)
It's consistently absorbing as it plunges deep into a Southern Gothic milieu where you can't escape the sins of your parents no matter how far you run.
Posted Aug 23, 2021
24
Don't Breathe 2 (2021)
Sufficiently recaptures the gritty, nasty style of its predecessor while adding some fresh wrinkles of its own, even as a few of them strain credibility in the home stretch.
Posted Aug 12, 2021
25
The Green Knight (2021)
Lowery laces his movie with imagery both beautiful and horrific, all of it rapturously filmed, while bringing his own sensibilities to the familiar milieu.
Posted Jul 30, 2021
26
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021)
The revelations are smartly ticked off amidst a scenario that also has plenty of room for scary stuff of its own.
Posted Jul 16, 2021
27
It's largely a rehash of the previous sleeper hit, ignoring the potential suggested by its subtitle.
Posted Jul 15, 2021
28
The Forever Purge (2021)
If only The Forever Purge really dug into its subject to come up with something beyond the usual talking points and by-now familiar action beats.
Posted Jul 2, 2021
29
Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)
[The filmmakers have] effectively married slasher tropes with the supernatural, allowing for a wide variety of scary setpieces.
Posted Jul 2, 2021
30
There's the sense of too many trips to the well--or in this case, subterranean chambers, a morgue, a spooky prison, etc.
Posted Jun 1, 2021
31
Dementia Part II (2018)
Voss really goes for broke, fully coloring in all the sides of her antagonist's madness and turning on a dime from funny to frightening.
Posted Jun 1, 2021
32
Funhouse (2021)
There's some severe mixed messaging going on here.
Posted May 28, 2021
33
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
While it can't be the revelation its predecessor was, Part II very successfully expands on the 2018 hit, enriches its central characters and fully delivers the scares.
Posted May 24, 2021
34
Army Of The Dead (2021)
Army of the Dead takes two and a half hours to tell about 60 or 70 minutes of story, which wouldn't be as great an issue if so much of it wasn't familiar.
Posted May 14, 2021
35
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Not the reinvention fans might have hoped for but a jumpstart, one that recaptures some of the dreadful pleasures of the early Saws without finding genuinely fresh directions.
Posted May 14, 2021
36
Separation (2021)
The basic nature of Separation's supernatural evil isn't even clear in one seriously confused movie.
Posted May 3, 2021
37
Bloodthirsty (2021)
An overwhelmingly poetic and disturbing film about an artist's struggle with identity amidst creation. The music is incredible and Beatty's performance is deserving of laurels.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
38
The Djinn (2021)
It is the very definition of both "scrappy" and "successful" and still manages to pile scares on scares.
Posted Apr 23, 2021
39
The Old Ways (2021)
The Old Ways is part possession, part bruja, and part confession, and an all-around good and scary movie.
Posted Apr 23, 2021
40
Here Alone (2017)
The film makes a virtue out of focusing on the people trying to survive a viral apocalypse rather than on those who have been transformed by it.
Posted Apr 22, 2021
41
The Feast (2021)
42
The Power (2021)
Writer/director Corinna Faith has found just the right historical setting to tell a horror story that merges classical haunting tropes with very up-to-date ideas.
Posted Apr 9, 2021
43
The Unholy (2021)
It's the kind of movie where the camera does a slow zoom in to a statue of the Virgin Mary, and you just know it's going to start weeping blood.
Posted Apr 2, 2021
44
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Not all of the details of Godzilla vs. Kong hold together, but the big picture is mightily entertaining.
Posted Apr 2, 2021
45
The Spine of Night (2021)
46
The Arbors (2020)
It's a carefully controlled, well-thought-out and finely crafted film that's being sold as a monster movie but is really a disquieting mood piece.
Posted Mar 25, 2021
47
Gaia (2021)
Part Island Of The Mushroom People, part The Ruins, and part The Happening, Gaia plants its own flag on nature-based environmental horror. Now, stay out of the woods!
Posted Mar 22, 2021
48
The filmmakers like Paul too much to take him to the place the story seems to want him to go, and the black-comic impact is blunted as a result.
Posted Mar 19, 2021
49
Offseason (2021)
Further proof of Keating's ability to conjure up rich atmosphere and genuine creeps with quiet, understated skill. And a lot of fog.
Posted Mar 17, 2021
50
Son (2021)