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.
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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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.
(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...
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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...
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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@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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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
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#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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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#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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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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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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Why are horror's oldest monsters suddenly everywhere again? From #Nosferatu and #TheWolfMan to #Frankenstein and #TheMummy, Bee Delores explains how today's filmmakers are using classic horror icons to confront modern fears about isolation, power, misinformation, and survival. tinyurl.com/37yt2zz2
(Deep Cuts) What Nosferatu, Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man Reveal About the 2020s
From Nosferatu and The Wolf Man to Frankenstein, The Bride!, and The Mummy, horror filmmakers are revisiting the genre's most iconic monsters. This editorial explores how these remakes reflect modern ...
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What if studying abroad was terrifying, and then you discovered your dance academy was run by witches? Pleatherface tackles Dario Argento's #Suspiria, a horror classic that somehow remains mesmerizing even when you're not entirely sure what's going on. tinyurl.com/285ysksw
(Pleatherface) Why SUSPIRIA Works Even When You Don't Know What's Happening
Dario Argento's Suspiria is a dazzling mix of vivid colors, haunting music, and dreamlike horror. Pleatherface revisits the giallo classic from a newcomer's perspective, exploring its disorienting sto...
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