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Professor Horror

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At Professor Horror, we don't just watch horror: we live it, study it, and celebrate it. Run by writers, critics, and scholars who've made horror both a passion and a career, our mission is to explore the genre in all its bloody brillance.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 21h

What do you do when the world ends? Control the story...or just bomb the iceberg. Tom Cruise goes big in #DIGGER, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s darkly funny satire about power, catastrophe, and why laughing together matters when everything is falling apart. tinyurl.com/4uzajn82

(Review) DIGGER: When the World Ends, Control the Story...or Just Bomb the Iceberg

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger turns climate catastrophe into dark comedy as Tom Cruise’s billionaire tries to control the story while the world falls apart.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Found footage hits differently when being watched is already part of everyday life. At #fantasticfest, @24thdoctor.bsky.social reviews COMPLIANCE, a corporate nightmare where surveillance, crisis PR, and the internet turn damage control into horror. tinyurl.com/33bhm62v

(Fantastic Fest 2026) COMPLIANCE Is Watching You...and So Is Corporate.

Kyle Mangione-Smith’s COMPLIANCE turns crisis PR and corporate damage control into a found-footage nightmare built from security cameras, video calls, texts, and streams.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What on earth did Davalyn Baker just watch? POSSESSION turns one spectacularly toxic divorce into body horror, doppelgängers, and apocalypse. But beneath the chaos, a divided marriage begins to look a lot like the divided Berlin surrounding it. tinyurl.com/mktev42a

(Deep Cuts) POSSESSION: Divorce, Doppelgängers, and a Marriage Divided by the Berlin Wall

Andrzej Żuławski’s POSSESSION turns a collapsing marriage into surreal body horror, using divorce, doppelgängers, and divided Berlin to explore love, control, and separation.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LAKE PLACID may not be great horror, but a giant crocodile and Betty White go a long way. Pleatherface revisits this creature feature and asks a good question: how do streaming services decide which forgotten horror movies get another chance to find us? tinyurl.com/8esau4ne

(Pleatherface) LAKE PLACID Is a Perfectly Funny, Not-Quite-Scary Horror Jaunt

Pleatherface revisits LAKE PLACID, its uneven mix of creature horror and comedy, and how streaming services like Tubi give overlooked horror films another chance to find an audience.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What makes a great video game movie? @zcregger #ResidentEVil has an answer. Forget recreating a game beat for beat. Capture how it feels to play, then fill Raccoon City with limited resources, escalating threats, and some wonderfully grotesque monsters. tinyurl.com/3yp4htxh

(Review) RESIDENT EVIL Gets the Video Game Movie Right with Monsters, Mayhem, and One Very Unlucky Everyman

Zach Cregger’s RESIDENT EVIL gets the video game movie right with an unlucky everyman, grotesque monsters, bloody horror, and plenty of Raccoon City mayhem.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bad singing has consequences! At #FrightFest, Professor Horror grabs the mic for BAD KARAOKE, where a possessed karaoke machine judges your performance...and if you bomb badly enough, you get to choose how you die. tinyurl.com/3frrr7ht

(Fright Fest UK 2026) BAD KARAOKE Hits all the Right Wrong Notes...and Some Butts Pay the Price

BAD KARAOKE turns performance anxiety into a bloody survival game as a possessed karaoke machine punishes bad singers with increasingly outrageous deaths.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Does anyone know how to check on Bee Delores? I don’t know anyone who lives near them. Please share this post.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Starvation. Colonial hubris. An ancient hunger in the Canadian wilderness. What could go wrong? At #FrightFest, ITHAQUA has all the ingredients for a vicious folk-horror feast, but this Hammer revival leaves Professor Horror wishing it had more bite. tinyurl.com/5fycw846

(Fright Fest UK 2026) ITHAQUA Has Plenty of Hunger, but Not Enough Bite

Hammer returns to horror with ITHAQUA, a snowy survival tale of colonial violence, starvation, and folklore that struggles to turn isolation into terror.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No helmets. Questionable survival decisions. A drop that makes your stomach relocate somewhere around your knees. Radek Velička reviews FALL 2: DEADPOINT, a bigger, more predictable sequel that proves sometimes you just need to stop asking questions and look down. tinyurl.com/yybhxm9s

(Review) FALL 2: DEADPOINT: Bigger Heights, Fewer Surprises

FALL 2: DEADPOINT trades the tower for Thailand’s cliffs, delivering bigger heights and gorgeous scenery even when its twists are easy to see coming.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The giant man in the baby mask may not be the biggest baby in the movie. Professor Horror reviews Spider One’s #BIGBABY at Fright Fest UK, a bloody meta-slasher about writer’s block, bruised egos, killer criticism, and creativity throwing a tantrum. tinyurl.com/37wat4d6

(Fright Fest Uk 2026) BIG BABY Throws a Tantrum Over Writer's Block...and the Body Count is Growing

Spider One’s BIG BABY turns writer’s block into a bloody meta-slasher about criticism, artistic insecurity, and a killer creation throwing a tantrum.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How much more do zombies have to do to be original? Yeon Sang-ho returns to zombie horror with #Colony where the infected learn, communicate, and move as one. Radek Velicka asks whether the genre is out of ideas...or critics just expect too much. tinyurl.com/y69khd2v

(Fright Fest Uk 2026) COLONY: What Else do Zombies Have to Do to Be Considered Original?

Yeon Sang-ho returns to zombie horror with COLONY, a tense Fantasia 2026 thriller whose infected learn, communicate, adapt, and move as one.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pleatherface visits Stepford, where the lawns are perfect, the wives are obedient, and domestic bliss comes at a horrifying price. We revisit THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975) and the patriarchal nightmare hiding beneath its picture-perfect suburbia. tinyurl.com/mry4a6bt

STEPFORD WIVES: How Domestication Can be Seen as Horrific

Pleatherface revisits The Stepford Wives (1975) and its chilling satire of misogyny, domesticity, patriarchal control, and the destruction of female autonomy.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Who is the Gill-man? As summer slips into spooky season, The Horrified Linguist dives into #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon, the mystery of its iconic monster & the two uncredited performers, Ricou Browning and Ben Chapman, who brought him to life. tinyurl.com/mv68umpu

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954): Who is the Gill-man?

The Horrified Linguist dives into CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) and the mystery behind the Gill-man, including the uncredited performances of Ricou Browning and Ben Chapman.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pennywise. Frank-N-Furter. Wadsworth. Rooster. We all met Tim Curry somewhere different, but for generations of horror fans, queer kids, and misfits, he made being weird feel like something worth celebrating. Davalyn Baker remembers an irreplaceable icon. tinyurl.com/ms574ehc

Remembering Tim Curry: The Man Who made it Sexy to be Weird.

Remembering Tim Curry and the unforgettable characters that defined generations, from Pennywise and Frank-N-Furter to Rooster, Wadsworth, and his wonderfully weird horror legacy.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Campfires. Canoes. Cropsy. And one of the greatest slasher kills ever put on screen. Bee Delores revisits THE BURNING (1981), its infamous raft massacre, Tom Savini’s glorious practical gore & the anything-goes insanity of ’80s summer horror. tinyurl.com/4aeuysa3

THE BURNING (1981) And One of the Greatest Kills of All Time

Bee Delores revisits THE BURNING (1981), the cult summer-camp slasher packed with Tom Savini gore, Cropsy’s garden shears, and one of horror’s greatest kill sequences.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Forget logic. Grab your jellybean and enjoy the ride. HOT SPOT creates a drought-ravaged future ruled by an all-seeing AI, then piles on cyber witches, retro-futurism & glorious weirdness. It doesn’t always make sense...but maybe it shouldn’t. tinyurl.com/mtadafdx

(Review) HOT SPOT Asks You to Stop Thinking and Start Feeling, Jellybean in Hand

Professor Horror reviews HOT SPOT, Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s surreal sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace, where AI surveillance, drought, cyber witches, and retro-futurist chaos collide.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Motherhood becomes a nightmare in NIGHTBORN. Radek takes on Hanna Bergholm’s @FantasiaFest Grand Prize winner, a dark Finnish fairy tale of postpartum isolation, bodily transformation & the unsettling idea that something is very wrong with the baby. tinyurl.com/3yhjk8ex

(Fantasia Fest 2026) NIGHTBORN (2026): When Motherhood Turns Into a Nordic Nightmare

Radek Velicka reviews NIGHTBORN, Hanna Bergholm’s Fantasia 2026 Grand Prize winner, a Finnish motherhood nightmare blending postpartum alienation, practical creature effects, and dark folkloric horror...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What does CARNIVAL OF SOULS have to say about the queer experience? Bee Delores revisits Herk Harvey’s 1962 classic through Mary Henry’s isolation, compulsory heterosexuality, invisibility & the terrifying journey toward seeing yourself clearly. tinyurl.com/cwwcxr75

(Deep Cuts) What Herk Harvey's CARNIVAL OF SOULS Says About Queerness

Bee Delores revisits CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) through a queer lens, exploring Mary Henry's isolation, unwanted male attention, invisibility, and struggle toward self-recognition in Herk Harvey's haunt...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Why is Nikki’s “no, no, no, no, no” in OBSESSION so unsettling? The Horrified Linguist gets linguistic with one of the year’s best horror films, exploring how repetition makes familiar speech uncanny...and makes Inde Navarrette’s performance even scarier. tinyurl.com/ycxeh7ns

(Horrified Linguist) No, no, no, no, no! Uncanny Repetition in OBSESSION

The Horrified Linguist examines OBSESSION through the uncanny language of possessed Nikki, exploring how repetition turns ordinary expressions of love, panic, and desire into something deeply unsettli...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Radek found his favorite film of @fantasiafestival.com #Sicko starts with a fake medical scam and black comedy before spiraling into violence, toxic obsession & complete moral collapse. One of the year's best thriller, so #Obsession finally has competition. tinyurl.com/32vvxwc9

(Fantasia Fest 2026) SICKO (2025)...Obsession Has Competition. One of the Year's Best Thrillers Comes from Kazakhstan

Radek Velicka reviews SICKO, a brutal Kazakh thriller that transforms from black comedy into horror as an online medical scam spirals into violence, obsession, and moral collapse.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We say goodbye to the incomparable Sam Neill by revisiting one of his darkest performances. Pleatherface dives into EVENT HORIZON, Neill's descent into hell, its gothic design, and the beautifully imperfect space nightmare that became a cult classic tinyurl.com/265pnzby

(Fresh Meat) EVENT HORIZON: The Beautifully Imperfect Trip to Hell That Hollywood Almost Ruined

Pleatherface revisits EVENT HORIZON, Paul W.S. Anderson's once-maligned space horror classic, exploring its nightmarish production design, Sam Neill's terrifying performance, troubled production, and ...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What's YOUR favorite dinosaur? @EndofOakStreet drops an ordinary 1982 suburb into a prehistoric nightmare full of creatures you rarely see on screen. It's brutal, weird, wildly fun, and the best dinosaur movie since #JurassicPark. tinyurl.com/msnpxzsd

(Review) THE END OF OAK STREET: Dinosaurs Have Invaded the Cul-de-Sac, and Suburbia Is Screwed

THE END OF OAK STREET unleashes dinosaurs on 1982 suburbia in David Robert Mitchell's wildly entertaining creature feature starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. It's brutal, surprising, and the be...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Kathryn Newton heads into Thailand's flooded caves in The Devil's Mouth, where sharks, claustrophobia, and one spectacularly toxic friendship are all competing to kill you. tinyurl.com/t446t28p

(Review) Jawing at the Mouth: THE DEVIL’S MOUTH Bites Into Sharks, Caves, and Toxic Bestiehood

THE DEVIL'S MOUTH review: Kathryn Newton leads this Thailand-set survival horror that blends sharks, underwater caves, and toxic friendships into a tense summer thriller with plenty of bite.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The summer months might be winding, but we are just starting our Summer Horror series with the film that started it all. Pleatherface revisits #Jaws, exploring how Spielberg's classic transformed horror, Hollywood, and the birth of the modern blockbuster. tinyurl.com/yd63c4n5

(Pleatherface) JAWS and the Birth of the Summer Blockbuster

How did JAWS transform Hollywood? Pleatherface explores Steven Spielberg's landmark film, arguing that its greatest legacy isn't just terrifying audiences—it's creating the modern summer blockbuster a...

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Influencer horror is growing up. As part of our Chatt Fest coverage, @24thdoctor.bsky.social examines #Lenore alongside Allison Gunn's upcoming novel #HiveMind, exploring how both dissect parasocial obsession, internet fame, and who gets to control a woman's story. tinyurl.com/cy39dywa

(Chatt Fest 2026) LENORE and Allison Gunn's HIVE MIND: Investigating Trauma in the Age of Influencers

Influencer horror is evolving. Katelyn examines David Ward's LENORE and Allison Gunn's HIVE MIND, exploring how horror uses social media, parasocial obsession, and the fight for narrative control to e...

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How do you film two people talking through different movies? Radek Velicka goes behind the scenes of #YouAreTheFilm, revealing Makoto Ueda's production diary and the three-day shoot behind one unforgettable scene. @FantasiaFest tinyurl.com/ynxvnyfh

(Fantasia Fest 2026) The Making of YOU ARE THE FILM: Three days for a Single Conversation

Discover how YOU ARE THE FILM was made in this Fantasia 2026 behind-the-scenes feature. Radek Velicka explores Makoto Ueda's production diary, revealing the three-day conversation shoot, the 45-seat c...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My favorite film at Sundance is finally getting some love, so please check out my review for #WICKER. A heartfelt fairy tale about love, autonomy, and choosing your happily ever after. Olivia Colman and one devoted wicker husband stole my heart. tinyurl.com/3jpmjjws

(Sundance Film Festival) Once You Go WICKER: Love, Autonomy, and Fairy-Tale Defiance

Wicker Than Fiction: Love Without Ownership — WICKER, premiering at Sundance, reimagines the fairy tale as a romance built on agency, devotion, and refusal to be owned. Olivia Colman stars in a story ...

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Katelyn from the Black Lagoon @24thdoctor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For @professorhorror.bsky.social on Vincent Price’s birthday, I got to write about Madhouse, paying tribute to Price’s career, and Vincent-as-Final-Girl.

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(Vincent Price) MADHOUSE (1974) Turns Vincent Price into Horror’s Final Girl

Celebrate Vincent Price’s birthday with a look at Madhouse (1974), a strange and underrated meta-horror film that pairs Price with Peter Cushing and transforms the horror icon into something unexpecte...

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two moviegoers discover they're watching films about each other. As part of our @fantasiafestival.com coverage, Radek Velicka reviews #YouAreTheFilm, Makoto Ueda's inventive debut that turns one tiny cinema into a world of sci-fi, romance, & imagination. tinyurl.com/26pvayru

YOU ARE THE FILM: One of the Festival’s Most Original Screenplays

YOU ARE THE FILM review: Makoto Ueda's inventive Fantasia 2026 debut transforms a neighborhood movie theater into a gateway between parallel worlds, blending comedy, sci-fi, romance, and meta-cinema i...

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Christmas came early at @fantasiafestival.com #UnholyNight serves up undead Italian grandmothers, family dysfunction, and enough practical gore to stuff our stockings. Who knew Christmas Eve could be this bloody? tinyurl.com/bxz4ejdb

(Fantasia Fest 2026) Unholy Night: Grandma's Making a Naughty List…and Everyone's On It!

UNHOLY NIGHT review: Michael Gabriele's Fantasia 2026 world premiere blends Italian-American family chaos, undead relatives, and Evil Dead-style gore into a delightfully bloody Christmas horror-comedy...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Three siblings. One sealed house. One voice making all the rules. As part of our @fantasiafestival.com coverage, Radek Velicka explores #HomeBodies, an atmospheric sci-fi thriller about control, childhood, and identity. tinyurl.com/2zpktnm3

(Fantasia Festival Review) Home Bodies: An Unsettling Home Somewhere Between Cube, Buddy, and Pin

HOME BODIES is an atmospheric sci-fi thriller screening at Fantasia 2026, blending Cube, Pin, and Buddy into an unsettling coming-of-age mystery about control, identity, and growing up inside a manufa...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What if the weirdest part of a movie isn't the woman attracted to insects, but how little it has to say about her? From @fantasiafestival.com, Michael Fairbanks takes on #INSECTASY, a striking festival oddity that never quite evolves beyond its provocative premise. tinyurl.com/yc2m72nc

(Fantasia Fest 2026) Insectasy Squashes Its Kinky Premise

Fantasia 2026: Insectasy promises provocative insect-fueled body horror but never develops its bizarre premise into a psychological story worth exploring.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Aliens. Influencers. Blackmail. One missing child. Radek Velicka dives into #UnidentifiedMurder, a wildly inventive Hong Kong genre puzzle that keeps turning itself inside out. Another @fantasiafestival.com gem showcasing fearless genre filmmaking. tinyurl.com/4vsm2b85

(Fantasia Fest 2026) UNIDENTIFIED MURDER: Everyone Saw a Different Murder

UNIDENTIFIED MURDER review: This Hong Kong genre puzzle combines aliens, influencers, blackmail, and absurd comedy into one of Fantasia 2026's most inventive mysteries.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We're wrapping up our Dark Castle essays with Bee Delores' Deep Cuts look at #HouseOfWax (2005). More than a remake, it's a fascinating reflection on the broken promises of the American Dream and the millennial generation that inherited them. tinyurl.com/yypvy2b8

HOUSE OF WAX (2005) & the Millennial Crash Out of the Mid-2000s

HOUSE OF WAX (2005) wasn't just a slasher remake. Bee Delores' Deep Cuts essay explores how Jaume Collet-Serra's horror film eerily foreshadowed millennial economic anxiety.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fantasia Fest 2026 continues! Bob Colaers' #AttackOnParadise had its world premiere at @fantasiafestival.com, delivering brutal apartment-building action, moral gray areas, and plenty of bullets. Read Michael Fairbanks’ review here: tinyurl.com/3seykkkd

(Fantasia Fest 2026) ATTACK ON PARADISE Equally Confined By Location and Cliches

ATTACK ON PARADISE review: Premiering at Fantasia 2026, Bob Colaers' action thriller delivers brutal apartment-building battles but struggles to rise above familiar genre clichés.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What if the next great religious thriller wasn't another exorcism movie? #GODHEAD, premiering at @fantasiafestival.com, traps a preacher between two zealots demanding an impossible choice. Read Michael Fairbanks’ review here: tinyurl.com/2vyjnt9f

(Fantasia Fest 2026) GODHEAD Almost Gave Me Faith In Religious Thrillers

Our GODHEAD review explores Mark H. Rapaport's Fantasia 2026 psychological thriller, a fresh take on religious horror that asks impossible questions about faith.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

@FantasiaFest coverage starts NOW! From July 15–Aug 3, we'll be bringing you coverage from one of the world's best genre festivals. @kingofburbank2 kicks things off with #DANCEFREAK...a visually wild cosmic horror that doesn't always match its ambition. tinyurl.com/a4b26a73

(Fantasia Fest 2026) DANCE FREAK Injects Virtuosic Style Into The Tired YouTube Frat Boy Template

Our Fantasia 2026 coverage begins with DANCE FREAK, a visually inventive microbudget horror film that blends cosmic nightmare imagery with internet-era cringe comedy.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

What happens when horror, sci-fi, thrillers, and the wonderfully weird all collide? @fantasiafestival.com ! We dug through this year's lineup and picked the films we're most excited to cover. From psychological nightmares to gloriously unclassifiable genre chaos. tinyurl.com/7b9jk2pk

(Fantasia Fest 2026) When Reality Won't Hold: This Year's Lineup Runs on Unreliable Minds and Unreliable Nights

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#EVILDEADBURN doesn't just keep the franchise alive...it tears it apart limb by limb. Packed with inventive gore, relentless Deadites, and finger-chopping practical effects, it's the stab in the ear Evil Dead needed. tinyurl.com/38e2jjvk

(Review) EVIL DEAD BURN Proves this Franchise Doesn't Need Ash to Make You Swallow your Soul

EVIL DEAD BURN proves the franchise doesn't need Ash Williams, delivering brutal practical gore, Deadites, family trauma, and Sébastien Vaniček's best horror yet.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What if the hottest relationship in a thriller involved a chain-smoking retiree, his night nurse, and a phone scam? #NightNurse is a kinky, unsettling psychosexual thriller that shouldn't work...but absolutely does. tinyurl.com/2jcs55z4

(Reviews) NIGHT NURSE: Georgia Bernstein's Kinky, Confident Debut Turns Phone Scams Into an Erotic Thriller

NIGHT NURSE review: Georgia Bernstein's Chicago-shot psychosexual thriller transforms elder fraud, caregiving, and desire into an unsettling erotic nightmare.

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Heartbreaking animation, folk horror, gothic nightmares, and inventive genre experiments... @24thdoctor.bsky.social rounds up the short films that made @chattfilmfest.org one of the best festivals in the country for discovering emerging filmmakers. tinyurl.com/yj7vsf9p

(Chattanooga Film Festival) Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: Favorites of the Fest: Shorts Edition

From heartbreaking animated tales and inventive horror anthologies to striking folk horror and gothic nightmares, Katelyn Nelson highlights the short films that made the 2026 Chattanooga Film Festival...

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

From BUNNY RABBIT and LENORE to KING OF BLACK GOO, MISPER, and SUNSHINE GIRLS, @24thdoctor.bsky.social looks back at the feature films that made @chattfilmfest.org one of the year's strongest showcases for independent genre cinema. tinyurl.com/mr8tf9v6

Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: Favorite Features of the Fest

From post-apocalyptic nightmares and body horror to unsettling social satire, Katelyn Nelson highlights her favorite feature films from the 2026 Chattanooga Film Festival and the themes that made this...

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We're continuing our Dark Castle retrospective with #Gothika. Davalyn Baker argues that, more than twenty years later, Halle Berry's overlooked horror film resonates less because of its ghosts than because of the women no one believes. tinyurl.com/329exf8b

(Deep Cuts) Who Believes the Patient? GOTHIKA and the Horror of Medical Dismissal

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Can a horror remake justify its own existence? #Pleatherface revisits #DarkCastle's House on Haunted Hill and Thir13en Ghosts, arguing these two remakes succeed because they build on William Castle's originals instead of simply repeating them. tinyurl.com/mv7hup5z

(Pleatherface) Dark Castle, The Art of Remaking Versus the Lack of Creativity

Dark Castle Entertainment's remakes of House on Haunted Hill and Thir13en Ghosts reveal what horror remakes can achieve when they expand on their source material rather than simply recycle familiar st...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The Crypt Keeper has finally closed the coffin. @lucilleballer wraps up our retrospective of all seven seasons of #TalesFromTheCrypt with a look at its uneven final chapter. Ready to revisit the series? All seven seasons are now streaming on @Shudder. tinyurl.com/58bn5mux

(Frights! Camera! Action!) The Crypt Keeper's Final Season Unfortunately Does Not End with a Shriek but a Whimper

The final season of Tales from the Crypt may be its weakest, but Davalyn Baker uncovers the episodes still worth watching, highlighting performances from Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson,...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

As a disability studies scholar, I found #TheHauntingOfPennhurst one of the most frustrating films at @Tribeca. The documentary captures Pennhurst's history, yet avoids the ethics of turning a site of disability violence into a haunted attraction. tinyurl.com/mr27pf57

(Tribeca 2026) A Haunted Attraction Built on Disability History Deserves More Than Atmosphere

Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

As a disability studies scholar, I found #TheHauntingOfPennhurst one of the most frustrating films at @Tribeca. The documentary captures Pennhurst's history, yet avoids the ethics of turning a site of disability violence into a haunted attraction. tinyurl.com/mr27pf57

(Tribeca 2026) A Haunted Attraction Built on Disability History Deserves More Than Atmosphere

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#TheBackrooms may have started as a creepypasta, but #KaneParsons turns it into something darker. Featuring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the film explores trauma, memory, accountability, and what happens when you refuse to confront the worst parts of yourself. tinyurl.com/ycxdvrxa

(Deep Cuts) The Backrooms Turns Internet Horror into a Maze of Trauma and Self-Destruction

Kane Parsons brings the viral internet phenomenon to the big screen with The Backrooms, a psychological horror film about trauma, memory, accountability, and self-destruction. Featuring a standout per...

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Lindsay Calleran's debut feature uses the family haunted house attraction as a stage for something far scarier than any theatrical scare...the moment a child realizes a parent is not who she believed him to be. @Tribeca. tinyurl.com/4nja238e

(Tribeca 2026) The Haunted House That Never Closes: Addiction, Family Secrets, and the Horror of Coming Home in CAITY

Tribeca 2026: CAITY transforms a family-run haunted house into a moving story of addiction, family secrets, trust, and the fears we can't control.

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Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

What happens when the world learns we are not alone? Steven Spielberg's #DisclosureDay uses aliens, whistleblowers, and secrets to explore truth, empathy, and who gets to control reality. Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, and Colin Firth star. tinyurl.com/3ty6kbc4

(Review) DISCLOSURE DAY Turns First Contact into a Crisis of Trust

Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY transforms first contact into a timely exploration of secrecy, corporate power, collective truth, and human connection. Featuring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman D...

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