Backrooms
Here's what Backrooms is: a door opens in the basement of a furniture showroom. That door should not be there.…...
WOKE: 4.9
TRAD: 19.34
AUTH: 70%
Hunting Matthew Nichols
Twenty-three years after her brother Matthew vanished without explanation on Vancouver Island, documentary filmmaker Tara Nichols (Miranda MacDougall) assembles a team to investigate the cold case using rediscovered 2001 VHS footage and modern found …...
WOKE: 1.9
TRAD: 21.28
AUTH: 91%
Sinners
Ryan Coogler made a vampire movie set in Jim Crow Mississippi and turned it into one of the best films of 2025. That sentence should not work. It does.…...
WOKE: 15.04
TRAD: 29.96
AUTH: 78%
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Sequels to successful horror films face a specific structural problem: the first film worked because you did not know what was coming. The second film's audience does.…...
WOKE: 4.83
TRAD: 22.12
AUTH: 76%
Exit 8
Let's start with the premise, because the premise is everything....
WOKE: 0.7
TRAD: 31.64
AUTH: 96%
undertone
Here is what horror films used to understand and largely forgot: the scariest thing in the world is not what you can see. It is what you almost see. What you hear from the next room.…...
WOKE: 3.7
TRAD: 21.98
AUTH: 82%
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Movie Review: Is It Woke? | VirtueVigil
There's a store at the Highland Place mall called Free Eden. It sells cupcake-scented candles, charm bracelets, and the kind of overpriced cotton sundress that costs more than your rent. The employees are gorgeous. They have their own slang.…...
WOKE: 27.8
TRAD: 21.2
AUTH: 65%
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
The original Ready or Not (2019) was a tight, clever horror-comedy with a clear thesis: old money is a death cult, and the institution of marriage into elite families is a form of entrapment.…...
WOKE: 21.42
TRAD: 8.82
AUTH: 75%
Faces of Death
Here's something you don't expect to say about a Faces of Death remake: it has something on its mind....
WOKE: 10.3
TRAD: 10.36
AUTH: 82%
The Watchers
Ishana Night Shyamalan's directorial debut is a better film than its 27% Rotten Tomatoes score suggests and a less complete film than its atmospheric first act promises. The gap between critical reception and audience response (27% critics vs.…...
WOKE: 3.8
TRAD: 13.65
AUTH: N/A
The Woman in the Yard
Here is what you need to know about The Woman in the Yard before you buy a ticket: this is not a haunted house film. There is no monster. The Woman standing in Ramona's yard is Ramona.…...
WOKE: 6.44
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 55%
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Horror has always been one of cinema's most reliable delivery systems for traditional values. At its best, the genre insists that evil is real, that families are worth fighting for, and that some things are worse than death.…...
WOKE: 1.7
TRAD: 16.24
AUTH: 80%
Smile
Smile opened to $22 million on a $17 million budget and eventually grossed $217 million worldwide.…...
WOKE: 5.04
TRAD: 14.82
AUTH: 75%
Hereditary
Hereditary opened to $13.5 million and eventually grossed $80 million worldwide on a $10 million budget. It holds a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score and an 87 Metacritic, making it one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of the decade.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 18.36
AUTH: 80%
Cast Away
Cast Away is one of the most stripped-down films Hollywood has ever produced. A FedEx systems analyst named Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) survives a plane crash in the South Pacific and spends four years alone on an uninhabited island.…...
WOKE: 1.75
TRAD: 18.97
AUTH: 88%
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is exactly what it needs to be. That's not as easy as it sounds....
WOKE: 9.18
TRAD: 8.68
AUTH: 55%
Us
Jordan Peele's Us has a problem that Get Out didn't have: it's trying to do too many things. Get Out was a scalpel. Us is a Swiss Army knife that doesn't quite close back up properly....
WOKE: 13.14
TRAD: 8.89
AUTH: 88%
Return to Silent Hill
Return to Silent Hill is an adaptation of Silent Hill 2, which has been called the greatest psychological horror narrative ever made.…...
WOKE: 15
TRAD: 16
AUTH: 52%
Together
Together is a body horror film about codependency that takes its central metaphor more literally than any relationship drama has any right to.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 16
AUTH: 70%
Clown in a Cornfield
Clown in a Cornfield is a competently made slasher with a clear political agenda that it conceals until past the midpoint and then delivers with zero ambiguity. If you enjoy slasher genre mechanics, the first half delivers them.…...
WOKE: 23
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 25%
Bring Her Back
Sally Hawkins ruins you in Bring Her Back. There is no other honest way to start this review.…...
WOKE: 8.54
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 79%
Nope
Jordan Peele's third film is his most formally ambitious and his most politically restrained, which may be why it polarized audiences in ways his earlier work didn't.…...
WOKE: 20
TRAD: 30
AUTH: 70%
The Menu
The Menu is a slick, well-crafted class satire that will make you laugh and make you uneasy, sometimes at the same time. It is also a film whose ideological message is more muddled than its admirers want to admit....
WOKE: 9.3
TRAD: 9.66
AUTH: 74%
Terrifier 3
Art the Clown is back. He is dressed as Santa Claus. And he is going to ruin your Christmas in the most graphically violent way imaginable....
WOKE: 8.22
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 72%
Scream VI
Scream VI moves the franchise from Woodsboro to New York City, trades Sidney Prescott for the Carpenter sisters, and delivers exactly what a Scream sequel is supposed to deliver: a satisfying whodunit structure, escalating kill sequences, meta-commen…...
WOKE: 7.4
TRAD: 6.78
AUTH: 70%
The Black Phone 2
Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone 2 is a sequel that earns its existence by asking a genuinely good question: what happens to the kids who survive?...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 79%
Heart Eyes
It's Valentine's Day in Seattle. A serial killer called the Heart Eyes Killer is hunting couples. Jay and Ally are coworkers pulling overtime who have made it professionally painful that they cannot stand each other.…...
WOKE: 5.45
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 69%
Smile 2
Parker Finn's Smile 2 is a bigger, louder, more technically ambitious horror film than its predecessor. It is also, paradoxically, a more traditionally structured morality tale.…...
WOKE: 8.1
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 80%
M3GAN
M3GAN became a cultural phenomenon in January 2023. The viral dance clip. The meme economy. The gay icon discourse. The TikTok explosion. None of that tells you anything about what the film actually argues....
WOKE: 7.8
TRAD: 14.98
AUTH: 82%
The Nun II
The Nun II is the best entry in the Conjuring Universe since the original Conjuring.…...
WOKE: 3.64
TRAD: 15.09
AUTH: 72%
Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear is the rare case of a movie that fully delivers on its premise without apology or pretension. You came to see a bear on cocaine commit grievous violence against an ensemble of unlucky bystanders.…...
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 9.87
AUTH: 60%
The Gorge
The Gorge is a high-concept premise executed with genuine craft. Two elite soldiers, one American and one Lithuanian, are posted to guard towers on opposite sides of a remote classified gorge for one year. No contact with each other.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 12.25
AUTH: 72%
Until Dawn
Until Dawn is the rarest thing in video game adaptations: it is honest about what the source material is and makes smart choices about what to translate.…...
WOKE: 2.2
TRAD: 12.2
AUTH: 60%
The Ugly Stepsister
Emilie Blichfeldt looked at Cinderella and asked the question nobody wanted answered: what would the ugly stepsister's story actually feel like if you told it honestly? The answer, it turns out, involves tapeworms, butcher knives, and more blood than…...
WOKE: 18.12
TRAD: 11.24
AUTH: N/A
The Bride!
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is a film that tells you exactly what it is from the very first frame, and it does not care if you approve. That was true before release, and it is doubly true now that audiences and critics have had their say....
WOKE: 22.1
TRAD: 8.4
AUTH: 10%
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's is not a great horror film. But it is something rarer and more interesting: a mainstream Hollywood production built on a conservative Christian creator's values, made with his direct creative control, and released at a moment …...
WOKE: 2.5
TRAD: 14.35
AUTH: 34%
Weapons
Weapons is the rare horror film that conservatives do not need to apologize for enjoying. In fact, they may find themselves grinning through it....
WOKE: 6.2
TRAD: 22.04
AUTH: 82%
Primate
Take Cujo, replace the dog with a chimpanzee, move it to a gorgeous Hawaiian cliff house, and crank the gore to eleven. That is Primate in a sentence, and honestly, that sentence sells it better than any marketing campaign could....
WOKE: 10
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 30%
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come takes the original's eat-the-rich horror-comedy formula and dials it up to a global conspiracy. Whether that's a feature or a bug depends entirely on how you felt about the first film.…...
WOKE: 16.85
TRAD: 11.2
AUTH: 48%
MaXXXine
Ti West's X trilogy ends the way it began - with a woman who refuses to apologize for wanting more.…...
WOKE: 32
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 55%
The Monkey
This review contains detailed plot analysis and reveals key story elements including the film's ending....
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 22
AUTH: 65%
Scary Movie 6
Twenty-six years after the original and thirteen years after the widely reviled Scary Movie 5, the Wayans brothers are back. And they're bringing a flamethrower to the culture war....
WOKE: 8.4
TRAD: 14.7
AUTH: 64%
Drop
Drop is the best contained thriller since Searching (2018) and one of the most effectively constructed genre films in recent memory.…...
WOKE: 5.6
TRAD: 10.5
AUTH: 71%
Wolf Man
Wolf Man is a small, grim, effective horror film that works best when it stops trying to say something and just lets you watch a man fall apart....
WOKE: 9.8
TRAD: 18.9
AUTH: 58%
Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil is one of the most uncomfortable films of 2024. It's a clinical, precise horror film about a man who cannot protect his family because he has spent his adult life outsourcing confrontation to social norms. Deeply effective.…...
WOKE: 9.18
TRAD: 6.78
AUTH: 44%
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Twenty-five years after the original Final Destination, the franchise delivers its best installment. That's not faint praise -- Final Destination (2000) was a genuinely clever horror film, and Bloodlines earns comparison to it.…...
WOKE: 2.52
TRAD: 4.48
AUTH: 55%
Presence
Presence is the most technically inventive horror film of early 2025. It is also a quietly progressive film wearing an arthouse horror mask....
WOKE: 18.1
TRAD: 8.5
AUTH: 32%
28 Years Later
28 Years Later is two movies welded together, and the seam shows....
WOKE: 11.94
TRAD: 12.46
AUTH: 48%
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The Bone Temple is better than it has any right to be. After the messy second half of 28 Years Later, expectations for this direct sequel were low.…...
WOKE: 10.04
TRAD: 14.26
AUTH: 52%
Scream 7
Kevin Williamson returns to direct the franchise he created 30 years ago, and the result is a film that corrects course from the progressive meta-heavy recent entries without abandoning what makes the franchise tick.…...
WOKE: 9.5
TRAD: 18.34
AUTH: 78%
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is a frustrating film to score because it's genuinely well-made and carries real emotional weight, right up until you look at what it's actually saying....
WOKE: 12.6
TRAD: 11.62
AUTH: 41%
The Conjuring: Last Rites
The Conjuring: Last Rites is not the best film in the franchise. That distinction still belongs to James Wan's 2013 original.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 80%
Iron Lung
This review contains spoilers. Iron Lung earns its ending and the ending requires discussion....
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 71%
Dracula: A Love Tale
Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale is a strange, kitschy, deeply sincere movie. And that sincerity is precisely what saves it....
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 78%
Send Help (2026)
Sam Raimi has been making gloriously unhinged movies for over 40 years. From the cabin in the Tennessee woods to the streets of Manhattan to the multiverse itself, the guy runs on one fuel: controlled chaos delivered with a grin.…...
WOKE: 15
TRAD: 22
AUTH: 72%
Nosferatu
Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is one of the most uncompromisingly traditional horror films made by a major director in the past decade.…...
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 72%
Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus is the best Alien film since James Cameron's Aliens (1986). That is not faint praise.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 65%
Longlegs
Longlegs is the most unnerving American horror film of 2024 and one of the few in recent memory that takes Satanism seriously as a moral force rather than as ironic aesthetic.…...
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 11
AUTH: 71%
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney spent years developing Immaculate as a vehicle that would let her operate in the horror genre while carrying a message she clearly believed in.…...
WOKE: 29
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 72%
Abigail
Abigail does exactly what it promises and does it with more craft than the premise deserves. That is meant as a compliment....
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 72%
Lisa Frankenstein
Lisa Frankenstein is Diablo Cody's Jennifer's Body with worse reviews and a better aesthetic. That sentence is both a description and a verdict....
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 2
AUTH: 68%
Ready or Not 2
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 48%
The Strangers: Chapter 3
The original The Strangers (2008) earned its place in horror history with a deceptively simple premise: three masked killers, a couple, an isolated house, no explanation offered and none needed.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 11
AUTH: 48%
Heretic
Let's not dance around it. Heretic is not a horror film that happens to touch on religion.…...
WOKE: 41
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 15%
The Substance
Hollywood has always fed on its own. Stars rise, burn bright, and are discarded - usually on a schedule dictated by age, gender, and the appetite of an industry that treats women as decorative objects with expiration dates.…...
WOKE: 37
TRAD: 13
AUTH: 70%
Opus
For audiences who agree with progressive critique of celebrity, capitalism, complicity: film works. For conservative audiences or those seeking entertainment: film is betrayal dressed in transgression. Woke trap real.…...
WOKE: 8.4
TRAD: 5.1
AUTH: N/A