Faces of Death (2026 | USA | 98min | Daniel Goldhaber) For an entire generation, 1978’s Faces of Death became the most …
Author: Tony Kay
Undertone brims with promise, but it’s undercooked
Horror movies often tap into the intersection of mortality and grief with a disarming fidelity seldom present in more literal-minded, non-scary mainstream movies. It’s one of many reasons I love the genre. Alongside the rollercoaster endorphin rush and dark escapism that draw me inexorably to them, the best horror films also serve as catharsis of the most profound variety.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: rescuing the world from AI dystopia, one diner visit at a time
Gore Verbinski’s latest movie turns out to be an imaginative, funny, and surprisingly affecting sci-fi adventure.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ups the chills and the gore
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ( 2026 | United Kingdom | 109 minutes | Nia DaCosta) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple …
Tony’s (very belated list of) Favorite Films of 2025
As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
Black Phone 2 rings true…some of the time
Black Phone 2 (2025 | USA | 114 minutes | Scott Derrickson) The Black Phone, writer/director Scott Derrickson’s thriller about a young …
Is it Worth it to Pay Attention to Him?
Him (2025 | USA | 96 minutes | Justin Tipping) Not to mix sports metaphors, but if nothing else Him, the feature …
M3GAN 2.0 trades scares for silliness, to (mostly) good effect
Kudos to recent horror franchises for changing stuff up. 28 Years Later expanded its siege-horror foundation by steering it into the realm of post-apocalyptic dark fairy tale. M3gan 2.0, by contrast, doesn’t so much radically depart from its predecessor as significantly shift the emphasis of the genres it combines.
28 Years Later ups the scale and the heart–and it’s scary, too
Spoiler alert (not): 28 Years Later, the second sequel to director Danny Boyle’s influential 2002 shocker 28 Days Later, could hardly be better. And unlike 28 Weeks Later, the rather meh second film of the franchise, this new entry serves up something deeply emotional, stunningly ambitious, seriously creepy, decidedly distinctive from its predecessor(s), and exhilaratingly suspenseful.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Color Book, New Jack Fury, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
One SIFFter’s coverage of most of his SIFF 2025 views.