Killer Horror Critic

2 weeks ago | killerhorrorcritic.com | Matt Konopka

First dates can be hell. I’ve been with my wife for over a decade now—how she isn’t sick of me yet, I’ll never know—but I haven’t forgotten the nerves that come with putting yourself out there. The awkward conversation. The sweaty palms. The stress in your gut when you know it isn’t going well. With Drop, director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) packs all that tension into a tightly wound thriller that takes audiences out for a nerve-wracking night on the town pushed to the extreme.

2 weeks ago | killerhorrorcritic.com | Matt Konopka

When it comes to horror films produced in Ireland right now, filmmaker Damian Mc Carthy (Oddity, Caveat)—justifiably so—gets a lot of the glory. But another who more than deserves to be on everyone’s radar is Aislinn Clarke, whose sophomore feature, Frewaka, should cement her as a rising talent in Ireland and abroad.

1 month ago | killerhorrorcritic.com | Matt Konopka

Ever since that killer unicorn appeared in Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods, I have been begging the universe for a horror film centered around the mythical creature. Over a decade later, writer/director Alex Scharfman has finally delivered that with his feature debut, Death of a Unicorn.

1 month ago | killerhorrorcritic.com | Matt Konopka

​Cults. Religious fanatics. The demagogue’s that lead them. These have all been popular topics in the horror-sphere as of late (can’t imagine why!). Yet where films like The Menu or Midsommar presented tales that felt shocking and fresh, A24’s latest, Opus, is neither. Writer/director Mark Anthony Green’s feature debut takes a bit from them all while blending in its own half-baked ideas, resulting in a hodgepodge of concepts that not even a stellar cast can make music with.

2 months ago | killerhorrorcritic.com | Matt Konopka

​Everybody dies. That’s life.  That’s also the prevalent theme of writer/director Osgood Perkins’ (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Longlegs) new film, The Monkey. Based on the Stephen King short story of the same name featured in his collection, Night Shift, Perkins’ latest is unlike anything we’ve seen from the director before.