Joey Keogh

Dublin

Writer and Journalist at The List

🍅RT-approved film critic. News editor @thelistdaily. Other bylines @bmoviesd @WickedHorrorTV @vaguevisages @screenqueenz etc. Straight edge. Proud bi. She/her.

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Articles

Review: Maurice O’Carroll’s ‘Swing Bout’

2 days ago | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

2020s Vague Visages’ Swing Bout review contains minor spoilers. Maurice O’Carroll’s 2024 movie features Ciara Berkeley, Chrissie Cronin and Sinead O’Riordan. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. There’s a surprisingly long tradition of great female boxing in Ireland, with Olympic champion Katie Taylor immediately springing to mind.
Review: Alexis Langlois' 'Queens of Drama'

2 weeks ago | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

Vague Visages’ Queens of Drama review contains minor spoilers. Alexis Langlois’ 2024 movie features Louiza Aura, Gio Ventura and Alma Jodorowsky. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Queer joy remains in depressingly short supply in mainstream media, with the deplorable “kill your gays” trope still regularly popping up.
Too Terrified to Log Off: 10 Years Later, 'Unfriended' Is Still Ruthlessly Effective

3 weeks ago | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

2010s Vague Visages’ Unfriendedessay contains spoilers. Levan Gabriadze’s 2014 movie on Shudder features Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm and Renee Olstead. Check out more VV film essays at the home page. Internet horror is a remarkably tough subgenre to pull off. More often than not, filmmakers overcomplicate their premise to the extent that there’s no longer any justification for confining the action to a single computer screen or letting it unfold in real time.
Review: Drew Hancock's 'Companion'

Feb 7, 2025 | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

Vague Visages’ Companion review contains minor spoilers. Drew Hancock’s 2025 movie features Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid and Lukas Gage. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Companion gives the distinct impression that writer/director Drew Hancock has been paying close attention to the women around him.
'Into the Deep' Is a Fantastic Showcase for Scout Taylor Compton, Even If She’s Above the Material [Review]

Jan 27, 2025 | wickedhorror.com | Joey Keogh

Scout Taylor Compton is too good for Into the Deep. The veteran horror actor commits so hard to playing one-note lead Cassidy – who’s still reeling from watching her father get eaten by a shark when she was a kid (really) – that this tonally inconsistent mess of a movie almost works as a result. Almost.
'The Damned' Is a Ruthlessly Effective Chiller [Review]

Jan 21, 2025 | wickedhorror.com | Joey Keogh

The Damned takes place entirely in a remote fishing colony in Iceland but naturally, since this is a horror movie, the cold is the least of the characters’ problems. Thordur Palsson’s impressively pared-back movie, which he co-wrote with Jamie Hannigan, takes “slow burn” to a whole new level.
Joey Keogh on the 2025 Shudder Film

Jan 9, 2025 | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

Vague Visages’ Get Away review contains minor spoilers. Steffen Haars’ 2025 Shudder movie features Nick Frost, Aisling Bea and Sebastian Croft. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. The name Nick Frost isn’t exactly synonymous with horror.
'The Invisible Raptor' Takes Itself a Little Too Seriously [Review]

Dec 4, 2024 | wickedhorror.com | Joey Keogh

With a title like The Invisible Raptor, you know what you’re getting yourself into. So why does it feel like director Mike Hermosa is holding back from going full-on, balls-to-the-wall crazy?
'He Never Left' Should Have Kept Things Simple [Review]

Dec 4, 2024 | wickedhorror.com | Joey Keogh

Horror movies are becoming too complicated, or so certain fans would have us believe. However, in the same year that gave us both the lowest-common-denominator Terrifier 3 and the life-changing Longlegs, what to make of He Never Left, a slasher that if anything is a failure of ambition more than anything else?
Review: Mary Dauterman's 'Booger'

Nov 21, 2024 | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

2020s Vague Visages’ Boogerreview contains minor spoilers. Mary Dauterman’s 2023 movie features Grace Glowicki, Garrick Bernard and Heather Matarazzo. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews. *Booger is ostensibly a body horror movie, but despite the wacky premise, it’s actually a nuanced meditation on grief in all its ugliest, messiest and most nonsensical forms.