Rue Morgue Magazine

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 23, 2026 It contains sufficient thrills, excitement and shock moments in individual scenes, even as both the movie and the antihero it showcases wind up being a little less than the sum of their parts. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 17, 2026 The ways in which the human story informs and affects the protagonist’s life-or-death struggle are sometimes forced and contrived. Yet that horrible situation itself is vividly and viscerally conveyed. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 17, 2026 The short-form review is: Just watch 2023's INFESTED instead. Go to Full Review Crawlers (2026) 58% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 14, 2026 I LOVE PARIS has good, ghoulish fun with the Faustian bargain Paris has been forced into, and how quickly she turns it to her advantage to get what she wants. Go to Full Review I Love Paris (2026) - - - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 9, 2026 Some visually imaginative and occasionally creepy sequences ultimately have little to support them dramatically or thematically. Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 5, 2026 The human side of the story is tense and dramatic enough to maintain interest for the long stretch where there’s not a whole lotta snakin’ goin’ on. Go to Full Review Beware Boiúna (2026) 58% - -

Deirdre Crimmins Rue Morgue Magazine Sep 21, 2026 A film that carefully drips questions faster than it oozes answers. It intrigues and envelops, but it is not the kind of movie that has any interest in tying itself up in a neat bow. Go to Full Review Night After Night (2026) 100% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Sep 16, 2026 Cregger has made a video-game movie...that honors its source without seeming beholden to it, replicating not its specifics but its mood and excitement and writing them large. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Sep 13, 2026 There’s nothing terribly wrong with DON’T MOVE beyond the fact that there’s nothing terribly fresh or adventurous about it. Go to Full Review Don't Move (2026) - - - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Sep 3, 2026 ONSLAUGHT is a lot like an Army MRE (Meal Ready-to-Eat). It satisfies a basic hunger, though it doesn’t offer a lot of distinctive flavor. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

Deirdre Crimmins Rue Morgue Magazine Sep 3, 2026 The methodical pace and complex characters are part of a slow build and a dark conclusion, well worthy of fright fans’ attention. Go to Full Review Blood Shine (2025) 83% - -

Deirdre Crimmins Rue Morgue Magazine Sep 3, 2026 Though the movie wavers a bit throughout the following hour, its throat-ripping introduction is a sight to behold. Go to Full Review Nameless (2026) - - - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Aug 29, 2026 The action is varied and ferociously staged, with lots of very enthusiastic zombie performers rampaging around. Go to Full Review Colony (2026) 81% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Aug 28, 2026 The conviction of Quinn’s performance, combined with Kelly’s [as director], take BUDDY way beyond the Barney-gone-bad gimmick and make it one of this year’s most distinctive genre ventures. Go to Full Review Buddy (2026) 88% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Aug 7, 2026 It’s got plenty of extreme splatter, all right, but it peaks early in that department, and doesn’t offer enough else to compensate. Go to Full Review Ice Cream Man (2026) 25% - -

Michael Gingold Rue Morgue Magazine Aug 4, 2026 [Director Sam] Scott maintains a ground-level reality to his milieu and characters... At the same time, the wilder moments in TURN IT UP! also land. Go to Full Review Turn It Up! (2026) - - - -

Deirdre Crimmins Rue Morgue Magazine Jul 31, 2026 It’s silly and sweet, sticky and stomach-churning -- a truly disgusting delight from the New Zealand filmmaking duo Thunderlips. Go to Full Review Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) 95% - -

Deirdre Crimmins Rue Morgue Magazine Jul 31, 2026 A lot of things go very right in Godhead that could have suffered at the hands of a less assured director. Go to Full Review Godhead (2026) 100% - -

Deirdre Crimmins Rue Morgue Magazine Jul 31, 2026 Penny Lane is Dead is very far from a bad film; at times it can be pretty darn fun, and it contains a couple of good, rousingly nasty moments. But the positives are too few and far between, and the movie ultimately fails to deliver on its promises. Go to Full Review Penny Lane Is Dead (2025) 95% - -

Deirdre Crimmins Rue Morgue Magazine Jul 31, 2026 The sheer physicality of Haarla’s expression of Saga is a wonder. Bergholm’s direction and cinematic choices are also disarmingly deliberate. Go to Full Review Nightborn (2026) 71% - -