Jessica Scott

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Jun 21, 2025 If you care about this genre, Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is essential viewing. Go to Full Review Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019) 100% 67%

Jessica Scott MovieJawn Apr 16, 2025 The Annihilation of Fish is a gem of a movie that shows us who we are as humans: strange, funny, sad, and capable of unconditional love if we open ourselves up to it. Go to Full Review The Annihilation of Fish (1999) 76% 80%

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here May 31, 2024 Pitiless and patient, In a Violent Nature is a fascinating formal deconstruction of the slasher film that pulls out the subgenre’s insides and asks the viewer to examine what really lies beneath its skin. Go to Full Review In A Violent Nature (2024) 79% - -

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Apr 22, 2024 Late Night with the Devil could have been an interesting examination of power... Instead, it is a sloppy, dull movie that refuses to commit to its own format, aesthetic, or themes. Go to Full Review Late Night with the Devil (2023) 97% - -

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Mar 26, 2024 Free will is the illusory mechanism driving the choose-your-own-adventure plot of Freddy Macdonald’s neo-noir gem Sew Torn. Go to Full Review Sew Torn (2024) 95% - -

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Mar 19, 2024 With a stronger script, Natatorium would be an outstanding horror debut, but its visual depths can’t quite compensate for its ultimate shallowness. Go to Full Review Natatorium (2024) 71% - -

Jessica Scott Daily Grindhouse Mar 19, 2024 Oddity is sly, scary, and impeccably crafted, and it confirms Damian Mc Carthy as one of the best filmmakers working in horror today. Go to Full Review Oddity (2024) 96% - -

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Mar 9, 2024 Director Zelda Williams makes a strong feature debut, balancing the film’s tones and genres to create a horror-comedy gem that is both swooningly romantic and bitingly funny. Go to Full Review Lisa Frankenstein (2024) 52% - -

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Feb 1, 2024 A throwback not only in look, but in tone and pacing as well, this Cornish folk horror gem is a spellbinding study of an isolated woman facing the weight of history and the horrors of solitude. Go to Full Review Enys Men (2022) 79% 21%

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Feb 1, 2024 Dupieux’s hilarious and horrifying new film Smoking Causes Coughing is an ironic breath of fresh air. Go to Full Review Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) 94% 49%

Jessica Scott Nightmarish Conjurings Feb 1, 2024 Shallow and unsatisfying, Fear the Night is an adequate home invasion thriller that could have been so much more...it turns away from interesting choices at every turn, leaving a generic, half-baked thriller behind. Go to Full Review Fear the Night (2023) 31% 21%

Jessica Scott Nightmarish Conjurings Feb 1, 2024 Chilling, mysterious, and thought-provoking, Monolith is a modern look at the classic invasion story. Go to Full Review Monolith (2023) 88% - -

Jessica Scott Nightmarish Conjurings Mar 12, 2023 Raging Grace is a taut suspense story about the horrors of a society that fails undocumented immigrants, especially women of color, but it is also a story of hope in the face of those horrors. Go to Full Review Raging Grace (2023) 93% 65%

Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Mar 12, 2023 While [Zlokovic's] gnarly, and occasionally hilarious, externalization of the inner critic is a potent (if unsubtle) metaphor, the film suffers from short-itis, failing to make the leap from intriguing proof-of-concept short to cohesive, focused feature. Go to Full Review Appendage (2023) 50% 61%

Jessica Scott Daily Grindhouse Mar 10, 2023 Viewers who want to see Ghostface slice and dice their way through bodegas and subways will find plenty to love in Scream VI, but those who like the franchise to play with higher stakes may walk away disappointed. Go to Full Review Scream VI (2023) 77% 20%

Jessica Scott Film Cred Feb 24, 2023 This playful, introspective, and daring documentary becomes a part of Mondo Kim’s story, setting up a funhouse mirror that shows the true reflection of the people who would do anything to protect film access for those who truly love movies. Go to Full Review Kim's Video (2023) 72% - -

Jessica Scott Neon Splatter Feb 21, 2023 Between tough-talking, switchblade-toting girls and a team-up to take down the men making their lives hell, female empowerment has rarely looked so cool or felt so attainable. Go to Full Review The Switchblade Sisters (1975) 57% 70%

Jessica Scott Horror Movie Blog Feb 21, 2023 birth/rebirth is an intriguingly feminine take on the modern Frankenstein myth, unearthing new truths about creation and highlighting the anguish of motherhood and the moral dilemmas that accompany it. Go to Full Review birth/rebirth (2023) 95% 74%

Jessica Scott Nightmarish Conjurings Feb 3, 2023 It’s a marvel, really; the film conveys exactly how depression feels while never being depressing itself. It shows how boring depression is without ever boring the viewer. Go to Full Review Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) 82% - -

Jessica Scott Nightmarish Conjurings Feb 3, 2023 IN MY MOTHER’S SKIN...turns a tale of war and colonialism into a microcosm of faith, loss, and betrayal; it is a world where fairies are not to be trusted, no matter how beautiful they may be. Go to Full Review In My Mother's Skin (2023) 86% 57%