Italian horror master Lucio Fulci is best known for his gruesome Gates of Hell trilogy—especially The Beyond—and the immortal Zombi 2, but his career also contained excellently off-kilter giallo movies, including Don’t Torture a Duckling and The New York Ripper. The Psychic, coming soon to Shudder, has fewer of those lurid elements that became Fulci … Read more
Ever wondered what a masked maniac in the vein of Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees does in his downtime—or what it might be like if Terrence Malick made a slasher movie? In a Violent Nature, which just debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and will stream on Shudder, sets out to answer both questions. As … Read more
Stage Fright (1987) Trailer After an auspicious early career assisting, acting for, and/or otherwise working with the likes of Lucio Fulci, Joe D’Amato, Dario Argendo, and Terry Gilliam, Michele Soavi made his own cinematic mark, directing cult favorites like 1989’s The Church, 1991’s The Sect, and perhaps his best-known work, 1994’s Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery … Read more
The title Bloody New Year feels overly obvious: surely, this is yet another holiday-focused slasher movie in which shrieking teens get picked off one by one. And while there’s a bit of that, this 1987 British release—also known as Horror Hotel and the far more spoiler-y Time Warp Terror—is also far, far weirder than you’d … Read more