Horror Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/horror/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:46:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Horror Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/horror/ 32 32 ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ gets solid trailer, bad title https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/03/ready-or-not-2-here-i-come-has-solid-trailer-bad-title/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:34:54 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042733 You know, it remains surprising to us that Ready or Not, the 2019 feature debut of the filmmaking duo known as Radio Silence (who, unlike their moniker would suggest, work quite a lot), was as popular as it was. Sure, it did alright at the box office, and apparently did really well on Netflix streaming, but why was that? In a word: Boredom. Think back to that lofty summer six years ago — (Jesus Christ, 2019 was six whole years […]

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]]> The ‘Obsession’ teaser will scare you until you love it https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/02/the-obsession-teaser-will-scare-you-until-you-love-it/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:08:25 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042721 One of the bigger acquisitions out of this year’s TIFF was Curry Barker’s Obsession, which hit the Midnight Madness program like a tsunami and swept a bunch of Focus Features’ cash out to its producers. It looks like the bigger companies have gotten sick of A24 and NEON owning the summer-horror distribution pipeline, so what better way to kick off these jams than with a big festival favorite? We didn’t get a chance to check it out while we were […]

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]]> ‘Keeper’ Review: A legit scary Osgood Perkins movie https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/14/keeper-review-a-legit-scary-osgood-perkins-movie/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:14:56 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042661 Color me stunned: Osgood Perkins has made something that’s not just “vibes-based” horror. His latest, Keeper, has been released with an interesting gimmick in that there hasn’t been much in the way of William Castle-style theatrics from NEON’s marketing team (cryptic teases coupled with heaps of praise from modern masters of the genre like Guillermo del Toro isn’t akin to, says strapping a heart monitor to Maika Monroe) and wasn’t screened for press* ironically enough, this is probably because the […]

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]]> ‘Predator: Badlands’ Review: A good-enough hunt https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/05/predator-badlands-review-a-good-enough-hunt/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:31:52 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042609 It was always going to be a tall order following up a movie like Prey with anything other than a direct sequel or, perhaps, another human-oriented story set in a different era. Then again, I don’t think anyone expected Dan Trachtenberg to make what might be the first universally-liked installment of the Predator franchise since the days of Arnie, Carl and Jesse “The Body,” so if there were anyone capable of pulling off a hard pivot, it would be the […]

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]]> Happy Halloween, here’s the ‘Scream 7’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/31/happy-halloween-heres-the-scream-7-trailer/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:29:40 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042593 What do you do when your best-laid plans for a sequel go to shit? Well, if you’re Paramount Pictures, you pull the Brinks truck up to Neve Campbell’s house and beg her to come back for one more Scream movie. What else can you do after your entire production basically quit Scream 7 after you fired Melissa Barrera for speaking her mind about Palestine? That means no Jenna Ortega, no Rocket Science, no nothing — the whole original approach to […]

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]]> ‘Black Phone 2’ Review: Let this call go to voicemail https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/17/black-phone-2-review-let-this-call-go-to-voicemail/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:14:31 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042505 I’ll give Scott Derrickson this: It takes a lot of guts to decide that what audiences want from a Black Phone sequel is to see the masked killer known as the Grabber (Ethan Hawke) show off his post-mortem skills as an ice-skating pro. That sequence, which acts as the final setpiece of Black Phone 2, is both a direct tribute to the iconic, hilarious kill in Richard Ciupka and Peter R. Simpson’s Curtains, in which a similarly-guised slasher decides to […]

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]]> ‘Good Boy’ Review: A doggone great horror picture https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/03/good-boy-review-a-doggone-great-horror-picture/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:15:24 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042438 My greatest fear when walking into Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy was that it would ultimately turn out to be like Jason Eisener’s segment in V/H/S 2, which was a thoroughly nasty little bit of found-footage that ends in a (perhaps appropriately, given the subject matter) apocalyptic fashion that nevertheless had me wanting to put three rounds into the screen like I was Elvis trying to change the channel. That short — an outgrowth of the “let’s mount a camera to […]

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]]> ‘The Long Walk’ Review: A mid-tier march through a King classic https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/03/the-long-walk-review-a-mid-tier-march-through-a-king-classic/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:48:40 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042295 You could argue that by the time Stephen King published The Long Walk under the pseudonym “Richard Bachman” in 1979, nearly 15 years after he started it, the idea of a “national sport as cover for totalitarian government’s machinations” had already been pretty well-trod ground for genre fiction. I hesitate to use Juvenal’s “panem et circenses” to refer to this type of story simply because he was mainly arguing against the state feeding Roman citizens in the same kind of […]

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]]> Dev Patel gets snared in the ‘Rabbit Trap’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/08/14/dev-patel-gets-snared-in-the-rabbit-trap-trailer/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:16:21 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042219 Quick, call your friends who are ambient, experimental, and/or noise musicians: there’s a new option for a “Horror Film to Praise/Complain About at the Function” besides one of Peter Strickland’s flicks (and frankly, it’s more Berberian Sound Studio than Flux Gourmet, though we love them both). Seriously, we’re fascinated to see how Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap plays with the Albini-adjacent set, because it’s got a solid premise that can be approximated to “Man, isn’t the Welsh countryside kinda creepy?” More […]

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]]> ‘Weapons’ Review: Zach Cregger joins the masters of horror https://vanyaland.com/2025/08/08/weapons-review-zach-cregger-joins-the-masters-of-horror/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:00:33 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042197 There’s a reason Jordan Peele fired his agents after losing the bidding war for Zach Cregger’s Weapons, and it isn’t just because the word-of-mouth on this motherfucker is going to bring home the bacon at the box office. Peele’s always favored the big, broad swing in his own work, and it’d make sense that it’d translate to the movies he wants to produce – this is, after all, on-brand, both from a filmmaking perspective and a personal narrative sense. Cregger […]

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