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NOTE: This review was generated during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, this film wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Insidious: The Red Door picks up 9 years after its predecessor with an …

Mixing two ingredients is a classic way to revitalize things that have become a bit overdone on their own. Mix some jelly into your peanut butter sandwich? Wham. You’ve got PB&J. Mix some comedy into your horror movie? You’ve got a nice way for audiences to get relaxed in between …

A lot of us have watched possession movies like The Exorcist, which was perhaps the greatest demonic possession movie of all time. It’s universally loved and hated. Some think it’s perfect and others think it’s too real or scary. For me, my first demonic viewing was something I saw on …

Synapse Films is doing Halloween right with the release of DEMONS and DEMONS 2 in UltraHD! This demonic double feature is loaded with extras and you’re definitely going to want to add it to your collection! Read on for the details! From The Synapse Films Press Release In Demons, a …

We have all wanted to get away sometimes, to take a nice vacation in a secluded cabin in the middle of nowhere. What could possibly go wrong? We answer that question in Tharun Mohan’s The Darkness. Lisa just wanted to get away to write her new novel, but she is …

It isn’t every day that you come across movies that make you grin with the strange particularity that filmmakers like Dario Argento can bring. Although Demons didn’t get much attention at the time, looking back at the film now, we can’t help but see the genius behind the motion picture. …

Relic is horror of a different kind. This time, there are no supernatural, paranormal, or third kind demons. The only demons involved in this film are those of a very real disease known simply as Dementia. Director Natalie Erika James launches her debut with Relic. This film isn’t exactly ‘scary,’ …

Every once in awhile, a film comes along that challenges every preconceived notion of how art is evaluated. As a critic, there are certain bedrock assumptions that allow me to meet a film on common ground. Just as I leave the house and expect a blue sky, green grass, and …

Achoura (2018) is making its appearance this weekend during the 2019 Cinepocalypse Genre Film Fest. Talal Selhami (Creature Designers – The Frankenstein Complex 2015, Mirages 2010, Sinistra 2006) directed this French Moroccan horror fantasy movie which he co-wrote with Frère II Sang’s Jawad Lahlou and David Villemin. The film was produced …

I am all about movies centering about witches, magic, demons, possession and what have you. Strangely, most of the time I find that these kinds of movies are not very good. More often than not, movies in said themes are made cheaply and rely on the genre itself to carry …