Welcome to the heart of Knockout Horror. This is where we keep the hundreds of reviews we’ve written over the years. Let’s be honest: the horror genre is a minefield. For every Hereditary, there are a dozen low-budget disasters waiting to waste your Friday night. That’s where we come in.
We watch the good, the bad, and the absolute trash so you don’t have to. From the latest theatrical blockbusters to the obscurest oddities hiding in the depths of Tubi and Shudder, you’ll find our honest, unpretentious, and jargon-free verdicts right here. No film school lectures, just a horror fan telling you if it’s worth the popcorn.
A pre-wedding getaway turns into a fight for survival in this tense, LGBTQ+ slasher from Shudder. The Retreat offers great representation and visceral thrills, but does it bring anything new to the genre, or is it just another walk in the woods? Let’s take a look.
Andres Beltran delivers a survival thriller that is more mud than muscle. A bickering couple gets stuck in a Colombian rainforest with a venomous boa constrictor?
Dave Franco makes his directorial debut with The Rental. Two couples find hidden cameras in their holiday home, but does the relationship drama overshadow the horror?
Kurtis Harder delivers a biting satire of online celebrity with Influencer. A mysterious stranger turns a shallow vacation into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Anthony C. Ferrante returns to the shark genre with Blind Waters. Does this Tubi/Asylum collaboration offer any bite, or is it just more low-budget driftwood?
Todd Bogin delivers a realistic look at narcissistic abuse with Hidden Exposure. Liana Liberato shines in this relationship thriller, but is it actually horror?
Delaney Mundy delivers a nauseating found footage experience with Terror Eyes. A road trip to Joshua Tree turns into a “dark web” nightmare that fails on every level.
Tim Cruz blends The Bachelor with Scream in the Tubi Original The Final Rose. Does this satirical slasher deliver the gore or just a bunch of reality TV bickering?
Taylor Chien takes a beautiful Hawaiian backdrop and fills it with horror clichés in The Resort. Does this urban exploration horror offer chills or just bad acting?
Michael Madsen and Robert Davi star in a loosely Lovecraftian Tubi Original. The Lurking Fear (2023) is a jumbled, incoherent mess of an asylum horror.
Brett Bentman delivers a shark movie with barely any sharks. Bull Shark is a slow-burn drama about alcoholism that forgets it is supposed to be a horror.
John Riggins delivers an environmentalist nightmare with Shark Huntress. An activist seeks revenge on a shark while fighting “big plastic” in this bottom-of-the-barrel horror.