Ever-growing gem of a streaming platform, Shudder, has given us some great platform-exclusive horror flicks, including recent abduction thriller The Boy Behind The Door, which is worth your look for the nail-biting suspense. More often than not, anything labelled a “Shudder Original” is pretty solid. It pains me to assert they have a rare miss.

Hugh Jackman searches for his lost love in a water-logged, yawn-inducing blend of Inception and Strange Days. Reminiscence refers to a near future technology where past memories can be experienced again in a cerebrum simulation. The story takes place in a Miami flooded by climate change and beset by class warfare. Poverty stricken drug addicts

The Night House is a chillingly atmospheric thriller that serves up quite a few heart-thumping scares. Rebecca Hall is fantastic as a grieving wife searching for the answers to a supernatural presence. The film builds great tension then wallops you with menacing imagery. The Night House is visceral and intense without being bloody or gratuitous.

John David Washington becomes an unwitting fugitive in a painfully sluggish and illogical thriller. Beckett has a dream vacation in Greece turning into a tragic nightmare for a besotted young couple. The film attempts to incorporate political elements into a standard chase storyline. It might have worked if the pacing, action, and characters were more

Naked Singularity is a bewildering mashup of social justice themes, science fiction, and hackneyed crime thriller. A disaffected public defender becomes involved in a beautiful parolee’s drug heist. While the universe counts down to inexplicably collapsing. None of it makes a lick of sense. Naked Singularity strives for depth and meaning, but comes up woefully

Free Guy delivers a hilarious, heartwarming, and refreshingly original perspective to ultra-violent open world gaming. The film cleverly satirizes a culture that thrives on reckless abandon. You can sit in your mother’s basement while rampaging through virtual streets. Shoot everything in sight. Kill, steal, and drag race until your thumbs give out. But what would

It was difficult to feel excitement about much of anything throughout 2020, and a year full of non-traditional movie releases only dampened the mood further. Lockdowns led to delays in release dates for highly anticipated flicks like Halloween Kills, while many studios bit the bullet and sent their films straight-to-VOD. New releases skipping theaters and

James Gunn unleashes a devilishly funny hurricane of carnage into the DC Extended Universe. The Suicide Squad fulfills the bloody vision of the comics. Every villain turned hero is expendable in an insane mission with nearly insurmountable odds. They are wolves to the slaughter instead of the proverbial lambs. The Suicide Squad goes deep into

Following the first chapter, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two brings the epic crime drama and murder mystery to a thrilling conclusion. Gotham City’s greatest hero faces a cunning adversary that forces him to confront his family’s legacy. The line between justice and villainy blurs when a hideous transformation overtakes an important ally. As the

Since the dawn of Shudder, the streaming service has been fairly consistent in releasing fantastic original horror flicks. Their new release, The Boy Behind The Door, the feature debut from writer/director pair David Charbonier and Justin Powell is no exception. The film takes a terribly dark subject, child trafficking, and spins a pulse-pounding thriller without