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Oct 16, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Tyler Doupé |Paul T. Le |Red Broadwell |Mary Beth McAndrews
Director Mike Flanagan has taken on the Gothic tales of our nightmares with his series The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting Of Bly Manor. His adaptations of Shirley Jackson and Henry James, respectively, are heart-wrenching yet utterly terrifying tales of betrayal, love, and what lurks after death. However, Flanagan breaks this pattern with his latest for Netflix, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, his take on not just one work of Edgar Allan Poe, but the writer’s entire body of work.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Paul T. Le |Red Broadwell |Mary Beth McAndrews |Tyler Doupé
I find that the most difficult films to critique are those that don’t make a profound impact as really good or really bad. The Puppetman gets more right than wrong but it still exists in that grey area. It’s rough around the edges, featuring pieces of an interesting story at its core. But Brandon Christensen’s latest feature is bogged down by pacing issues, performances that don’t always connect, and a lack of insight regarding the central evil at play.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Red Broadwell |Mary Beth McAndrews |Tyler Doupé |Paul T. Le
In its fourth season, Creepshow evidently isn’t ready to do away with routine. The majority of these new stories include the same old act as before: hapless characters get caught up in uncanny situations, and then are forced to suffer the cruelty of fate and/or the consequences of their own misbegotten actions. The series has this recipe down pat, but as a reminder, horror anthology shows don’t always get more than one season, much less four.
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May 26, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Paul T. Le |Josh Korngut |Giallo Julian |Mary Beth McAndrews
If Mick Jackson’s Threads, the 1984 BBC nuclear war drama, was an augur of a world on the brink, then Bob Mielke’s Threads, a book-length essay on the titular film, is an augur of DieDieBooks’ imminent success. The small press’ first release in a series of essays on horror films (texts on Poltergeist and The Wolf Man are pending release among others) is a marvel.
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May 25, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Josh Korngut |Giallo Julian |Mary Beth McAndrews |Paul T. Le
“Do you want to grow up, Amy?” asks Miranda Otto’s character at one point in The Clearing. To someone unaware, that question might sound like a loving mother nurturing her daughter, but viewers of this new Hulu series know otherwise. In fact, they fear for young Amy’s safety.
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May 8, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | R.C. Jara |Mary Beth McAndrews |Sharai Bohannon |Paul T. Le
The Third Saturday in October parts I and V are presented as relics lost to time that have only just been unearthed and released. Part V is meant to be watched first and Part I is meant to be watched second.With that in mind, I watched (and critiqued) the films in that order. I’ll break the reviews down by film in a bit but I’ll begin with some commentary on the franchise as a whole. Both of The Third Saturday in October films are rather generic.
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May 8, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | R.C. Jara |Mary Beth McAndrews |Sharai Bohannon |Paul T. Le
Period pieces generally aren’t a big draw for me. But Michael Patrick Jann’s Organ Trail isn’t most period pieces. Organ Trail is a gruesome horror-western that serves up a dynamic cast of characters and a killer denouement. Accordingly, I had a great time with this over-the-top effort. Organ Trail follows Abigale Archer (Zoé De Grand Maison), who is trekking the Oregon Trail with her family.
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May 5, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Mary Beth McAndrews |Sharai Bohannon |Paul T. Le |Chad Collins
Perhaps the biggest draw of folk horror is the overwhelming sense of doom that permeates each frame. Many films in the subgenre narrow the scope of their cosmic antagonism so that it leeches from personal tragedies. The monster can take the form of social and spiritual illnesses to the point where our protagonists feel like deluded shells by the end.
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May 1, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Mary Beth McAndrews |Drew Tinnin |Sharai Bohannon |Paul T. Le
Welcome to The Overlooked Motel, a place where under-seen and unappreciated films are given their moment in the spotlight. I hope you enjoy your stay here and find the accommodations to be suitable. Now, please take a seat and make yourself comfortable, I have some misbehaving guests to ‘correct’. Watch the latest episode:I’ve held off on featuring this week’s selection until now because I had previously convinced myself that today’s recommendation was reasonably well-known to horror fans.
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May 1, 2023 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin |Sharai Bohannon |Paul T. Le |Mary Beth McAndrews
Tenebrous Press is proud to present the most thoroughly capital-H Horrorwork yet from Bizarro aficionado Danger Slater (Moonfellows, I Will Rot Without You, Little Miss Apocalypse). On June 14, get ready to step into the House of Rot! Dread Central is excited to exclusively reveal the cover art by Kate Blairstone, as well as a sample of the interior illustrations by Echo Echo.
