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

Too Terrified to Log Off: 10 Years Later, 'Unfriended' Is Still Ruthlessly Effective

6 days 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'

2 months ago | 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]

2 months ago | 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.
Review: Zach Clark's 'The Becomers'

Nov 19, 2024 | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

2020s Vague Visages’ The Becomersreview contains minor spoilers. Zach Clark’s 2024 movie features Russell Mael, Molly Plunk and Mike Lopez. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews. *Aliens looking to colonize Earth find themselves in the middle of a terrifying conspiracy in The Becomers, the latest charmingly low-budget offering from writer-director Zach Clark (Little Sister). As the film posits, maybe modern America is scarier than whatever exists out there in the cosmos?
Review: Steven Kostanski’s 'Frankie Freako'

Oct 3, 2024 | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

Vague Visages’ Frankie Freakoreview contains minor spoilers. Steven Kostanski’s 2024 movie features Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy and Conor Sweeney. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews. *For a certain subset of horror fans, Steven Kostanski’s Psycho Goreman (2020) was a major moment inspiring merch, memes and endless discussions about hunky boys.