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Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 3 days ago 3.5/5 The biggest setback Clayface has is also one of its biggest strengths. How the film approaches its modest budget is incredibly clever, but the scenes with CGI probably aren't as polished as you'd expect. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 4 days ago 2/5 The sports action is entertaining despite its ridiculously dodgy CGI, but a half-hearted spectacle is hardly worth the journey when the writing and pacing are so disastrous. Go to Full Review Kung Fu Soccer (2026) 22% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3/5 Beautifully shot and expertly acted, the biggest issue A Prayer for the Dying has is that it is so slow by design. It is also tremendously bleak, which will likely make or break your opinion of it. Go to Full Review A Prayer for the Dying (2026) 56% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 2.5/5 Attack on Paradise tries so hard to be a worthwhile action film, and it just isn't. The action choreography is bland, with lots of brawling and stabbing but nothing of value, and all of the blood in the film is crusty-looking CGI splatters. Go to Full Review Attack on Paradise (2026) 75% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3/5 Girl in the Night feels like Kick-Ass if it had the tone and ambiance of Let the Right One In. Unfortunately, it feels far too familiar to leave a long-lasting impression. Go to Full Review Girl in the Night (2026) - - - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 1.5/5 The film tries to dance around a Kill Bill form of revenge that implies that death can take anyone, but it's an aimless bore. "There is no land. There is no God. There is no house. There is nothing." Death Has No Master is a film gushing with nothing. Go to Full Review Death Has No Master (2026) 76% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 1/5 It's a bunch of rambling sequences and scenes of people doing nothing with a vague demonic thread stringing everything along. It's not funny or interesting. Magick Mtn. is just grayscale boredom set to the tune of '80s hair metal. It's a rough watch. Go to Full Review Magick Mtn. (2026) - - - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3/5 The comedy is overwhelmingly corny and outrageous, but the Society-like body horror it turns into almost makes up for it. Go to Full Review FLAPJAX (2026) - - - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 2.5/5 The action is great and the gore is impressive, but Half has incredibly upbeat music that doesn't match the overall vengeful tone of the film. Go to Full Review Half (2026) 79% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3/5 The biggest issue is that Corpus is too horny for its own good, as it focuses on the sexual tension between everyone rather than the incredible horror concept it introduces. Go to Full Review Corpus (2026) 88% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 1/5 The Blood Countess has exquisite costumes and and is truly eye-catching. However, the film is all people playing dress-up while crashing fancy dinners, extravagant balls, and Ferris wheel meals. Go to Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 84% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 2.5/5 Sick is well-made and beautifully shot, while Maks and Emma inappropriately tease each other throughout the entire film. It has shades of Lars von Trier's Antichrist, where lust and desire trump any sort of logical thought. It's also overwhelmingly vile. Go to Full Review Sick (2026) 85% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3/5 Pathetic Fallacy is a fever dream of psychological horror that is essentially pure madness built around the tunnel of terror sequence from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It injects tear-jerking drama and ridiculous humor into acid-laced horror. Go to Full Review Pathetic Fallacy (2026) 100% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3/5 While the performances are strong, the mystery is worth unraveling, and Kalima's treatment is devastatingly torturous, Urei chooses to strip itself of surprises with a journey to the end credits that is far safer than it should be. Go to Full Review Ürei (2026) 100% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3.5/5 Maika Monroe juggles desperation and murderous urges as if her life depended on it, and she makes it both entertaining and believable, or as believable as possible when it comes to what's living in her stomach. Go to Full Review Victorian Psycho (2026) 80% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 1.5/5 The problem with ghost films like this that are based on a true story is that the fact the case was never solved is exploited for cheap scares and a cinematic narrative that doesn't have to make sense. Go to Full Review What Happened to Doris? (2026) 78% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 1.5/5 The Heretiks begins as a glorified Lifetime network movie where all of the drama is dropped during the last half hour, when suddenly people start throwing profanities around and there are full-body skin rips and splashes of gore. Go to Full Review The Heretiks (2026) 82% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 4.5/5 What The Cycle is hiding is hidden so well, but it is brought to light with spectacular special effects and impressive gore that transforms the film into something truly nasty, unsettling, and memorable. Go to Full Review The Cycle (2026) 95% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 3/5 The kills are even more creative and grotesque, and there's more of an actual story. If you've ever wanted to see someone's eyeball ripped out through their ear or someone's skull pushed out through the front of their face, then look no further. Go to Full Review In a Violent Nature 2 (2026) 64% - -

Chris Sawin Video Librarian Magazine 5 days ago 4/5 Godmother feels like a familiar tale of an older couple inviting young couples out into the desert to take advantage of them, but the reason behind it is totally wild and unpredictable. Scary and exhilarating with no boundaries. Go to Full Review Godmother (2026) 94% - -