Film Review

GNoH Review: Osiris (2025)

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Written by William Kaufman and Paul Reichelt
Directed by William Kaufman

Special Forces commandos are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft and, upon awakening, find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival. (IMDB)

Osiris is not perfect and there are a number of issues with it if you stop and think about them carefully but, as I keep saying, you aren’t really supposed to do that with this kind of movie. Grab a beer, turn the lights down and enjoy the show.

Read the full review on Ginger Nuts of Horror HERE

Night Terror (A.K.A. Eye for an Eye) (2025)

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Written by Elisa Victoria and Michael Tully
Directed by Colin Tilley

Follows the story of Anna who grieves the death of her parents as she moves from New York to Florida to stay with her grandmother. She falls in with some other teens, but when she sees a grisly act of violence, she finds herself trapped. (IMDB)

Night Terror/Eye for an Eye opens with a bright and peppy cheerleading number that could be straight out of one of Tilley’s music videos.

However, all is not entirely cheery.

The scene effortlessly lulls the audience with a sense of cheeky fun, before plunging the viewer into horror as lead cheerleader, May (S. Epatha Makerson) meets with an unpleasant accident and wakes from her dream with considerably fewer eyes than when she went to sleep.

But hey, at least who (or whatever) took them was kind enough to sew up the sockets afterwards!

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GNoH Review: Clown in a Cornfield (2025)

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Written by Carter Blanchard, Eli Craig and Adam Cesare
Directed by Eli Craig

A fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge. (IMDB)

Clown in a Cornfield is a Gen-Z slasher with one foot firmly planted in the 80s. it riffs on current social divides; a modern narrative and message with a familiar and nostalgic parade of gore and fun kills.

Read the full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror HERE

Abigail (2024) – Quick Review

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Director by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
Written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick

After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl. (IMDB)

***warning – some mild spoilers***

Caught up with Abigail recently after putting it off for a while as I kept hearing mixed reviews. Well, that will teach me to disobey one of my own rules of not listening to what other people say! I had a great time with Abigail – well better that than the poor souls who kidnapped her not knowing what they were getting into.

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The Substance (2024)

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Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that creates a younger, better version of herself. (IMDB)

Demi Moore is Elisabeth Sparkle, the archetypal ‘fading starlet’ who has likely made a lot of people at her network rich, but who has also been aged out of the industry by not being 30 anymore. She is unceremoniouly dumped by Harvey (Dennis Quaid) the not-so-subtly named, lecherous studio exec who eats shrimp as if the Cookie Monster lacked manners and ogles young girls while telling Elisabeth she is past it. All while wearing an unfading, shit-eating grin.

Caught up in a traffic accident on the way home from her firing, Elisabeth is approached by a mysterious medic who suggests she would be a ‘good candidate’ and slips a USB stick into her coat pocket. Intrigued, Elisbeth finds an advert for The Substance which promises her a brighter, younger version of herself. At first sceptical, she succumbs to the advert and contacts the company as events reinforce her alienation from the industry she loves.

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Sinners (2025)

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Written and Directed by Ryan Coogler

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. (IMDB)

Michael B. Jordan plays Smoke and Stack, twin brothers returning to their Mississippi Delta roots to open a juke joint in their home town. They have been away for several years, working in Chicago, the name Al Capone being bandied about; they are tough guys with a reputation even after all this time. With a truck full of Irish Beer and Italian wine, there is also the suggestion that they might be in hot water if their old bosses find out what they have been up to. But the fear of reprisals from gangsters is nothing compared to the fear of devils and demons, rife in the superstitious South.

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GNoH Review: Survival Code

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In a reality tv wilderness survival competition, a contestant faces relentless natural and psychological challenges that push him to the brink of sanity (IMDB)

Survival Code is a clear indication of the ability and ambition of Lang and his team, and I would recommend keeping an eye out for his future offerings as he goes from strength to strength as a writer/director.

Read the full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror HERE

Festival Review: Scarlet Blue (2024)

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Written and Directed by Aurélia Mengin

ALTER suffers from depression and schizophrenia. She consults a healer who practices mystical hypnosis and discovers that her mother is hiding a secret from her. The only breath of fresh air: a strange incandescent encounter… (IMDB)

“What the hell have I just watched?” was what flew through my mind at the end of the screening of Scarlet Blue at the Screams by the Sea festival in Bournemouth last month. Radi Nikolov, festival director introduced the movie as one that will stick with you long after the credits roll but, as I watched it, I wasn’t sure that was going to be for the right reasons. Maybe it was the 09:30 start that meant Scarlet Blue was the punch in the face that is the neon-tinged, dutch-angled, symbolism-laden movie that I emerged blinking into the light from just after 11am on a sunny morning in Bournemouth?

Maybe it’s just me?

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GNoH Review: Screamboat (2025)

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Written by Matthew Garcia-Dunn and Steven LaMorte
Directed by Steven LaMorte

On the last ferry of the night in New York, passengers and crew are hunted by a merciless rat, and what should have been a peaceful crossing turns into a bloody massacre. (IMDB)

Screamboat does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s not what you can easily describe as a “good” film, but it definitely entertains.

Read the full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror HERE