2025 - Death Creeps

Black Phone 2 still of Mason Thames (Finney) and Ethan Hawk (The Grabber) in a phone booth.

‘Black Phone 2’ Teases Teenaged Finney’s Return in Featurette [Watch]

E.L. KingOctober 8, 2025October 8, 202504 mins

The Black Phone 2 dives deep into the aftermath of Finney’s captivity. Discover how Finn and Gwen tackle new nightmares in a new featurette.

Paranormal Thriller Good Boy finds beloved dog, Indy, the only witness to a haunting. Indy, a Golden Retriever stares out into the woods looking at something we cannot see.

IFC Films and Shudder’s ‘Good Boy’ Early Access Screenings [Trailer]

E.L. KingSeptember 25, 2025September 26, 202504 mins

Paranormal Thriller ‘Good Boy’ Early Access screenings before IFC and Shudder Release in Theaters on October 3, 2025.

Hassie Harrison as Zephyr in Dangerous Animals (2025), held captive in the hold of Tucker's (Jai Courtey) boat.

Review: ‘Dangerous Animals’

E.L. KingSeptember 23, 2025September 26, 202507 mins

Dangerous Animals (2025) is an engaging thriller redeemed by Zephyr’s arc and the film’s commentary on patriarchal violence. The film’s unnerving themes and Zephyr’s unforgettable fight for survival cement it as a standout entry in feminist survival horror.

Mila Harris as Chloe in Coyotes (2025) hiding under the stairs with her dog as ravenous coyotes descend on her home.

Fantastic Fest Review: ‘Coyotes’

E.L. KingSeptember 20, 2025September 26, 202507 mins

Savage and unrelenting, Coyotes (2025) blends survival horror with eco-horror allegory, pitting privilege against predators in a brutal “eat the rich” fable. While its pacing lags at times, its feral metaphor lands with teeth: family endures, wealth does not.

Mia Threapleton as Alma in a dystopian future in the psychological horror film Shadows (2020)

Review: ‘Shadows’

E.L. KingSeptember 15, 2025September 26, 202507 mins

Shadows (2020) is a haunting, character-focused exploration of trauma and survival. Slow-burning, suffocating, and quietly devastating, the narrative is less about surviving monsters than surviving yourself.

Michelle Smith and Larry Pazder on a 1980s talk show promoting their book, Michelle Remembers (1980) in Satan Wants You (2023).

PHFF Review: ‘Satan Wants You’

E.L. KingSeptember 5, 2025September 26, 202505 mins

Satan Wants You (2023) is a gripping and essential work of cultural horror, exposing how the Satanic Panic turned fiction into lived nightmare.

Amelia (Essie Davis) is a distraut mother in The Babadook (2014), she is looking into the camera, exhausted and ready to break.

Maternal Horror: Exploring the Societal Demand for Perfection

E.L. KingSeptember 4, 2025September 27, 2025013 mins

Horror cinema exposes the unspoken terrors of motherhood—films like Baby Ruby (2023) and The Babadook (2014) interrogate the cultural silence around maternal ambivalence, revealing how postpartum depression, paranoia, and identity loss, are pathologized, judged, and ultimately demonized by a society that demands maternal perfection. Horror challenges the cultural demand for maternal perfection by transforming women’s silenced realities into visible monsters.

Josephine and Spencer welcome their new baby girl, Ruby, home from the hospital. Spencer is wearing a red hoodie sweater with a gray shirt, cradling Ruby in his arms, while Josphine smiles and coos at her.

Review: ‘Baby Ruby’

E.L. KingSeptember 1, 2025September 25, 202506 mins

Baby Ruby (2023) is a stunning, nerve-shredding debut—an unflinching portrait of postpartum horror. Bess Wohl delivers a fearsome, beautifully unsettling film that captures the terror, pain, and paranoia of first-time motherhood with raw honesty and unflinching psychological horror.

Mena Suvari as Cassandra, a griefing mother holding a revolver wearing a blue demin shirt witha an orange scarf.

Review: ‘Hunt Club’

E.L. KingAugust 31, 2025September 26, 202506 mins

Hunt Club (2023) is a flawed but ferocious slice of feminist revenge horror—predictable at times, but ultimately cathartic, bloody, and unafraid to let women bite back.

‘It Follows’: Exploring Female Sexuality and Its Societal Politics

E.L. KingAugust 30, 2025September 26, 2025010 mins

It Follows is a stylish, modern classic that subverts horror’s tired punishments of female sexuality with dread-laden precision—equal parts haunting allegory and cultural critique, it lingers like the curse itself.