RED ROSE HORROR

For this Thanksgiving holiday I decided to rewatch a movie that takes place over Thanksgiving break at a college, Kristy (2014), rather than a Thanksgiving themed movie. Directed by Oliver Blackburn and starring Haley Bennet as the main character and Ashely Greene as the main antagonist, this movie is definitely worth the watch. Kristy focuses on a college girl who stays on campus over Thanksgiving break and then is hunted down by a group of cult members targeting what they c

If there is one thing that drives my opinion on applications, it is user experience. It always feels like a lot of the problems like minor annoyances to the consumer can be easily fixed with a little tweaking. Yet, a lot of streaming platforms don’t seem to notice or care to fix those little annoyances. That is one thing I will always say positively about Netflix, their user experience and how it is ever evolving in the right direction. Most of my Shudder opinion is going to

In all honesty I have never been a big Thanksgiving fan. I absolutely love Halloween and Christmas, but Thanksgiving is just a food-filled pit stop in between those two. To my surprise there are Thanksgiving themed horror movies and the one I recently watched, Pilgrim (2019) is not nearly as bad as I had anticipated. Directed by Marcus Dunstan this Into the Dark installment met and at time exceeded my expectations. Considering my indifference to Thanksgiving I didn’t have muc

Found footage made its debut in the 1980 movie, Cannibal Holocaust. Though used in this film it later would become popularized in 1999 by The Blair Witch Project. Since then found footage has had its own place in the horror sphere. This medium of storytelling challenges creators to find realistic reasons for people to be filming and for filming to continue when the on screen characters are facing imminent danger and possible death. Known in part for their cliffhanger endings

The next installment in the Paranormal Activity series released October 29, 2021, Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin. Directed by William Eubank, who also directed Underwater (2020) and written by Christopher Landon who also wrote several other of the Paranormal Activity movies is something of a ride. Coming in at one hour and thirty-eight minutes there is quite a lot to break down regarding horror elements, the departure from found footage, and the plot of the movie itself. Be