Archive - Deep Cuts

'Rinne' & other horrors

Starting the year with a J-horror hidden gem — Takashi Shimizu's 'Rinne' is a chiller grappling with the gruesome cycle of violence, a morbid headspace…

Jan 1 •

Armando Dela Cruz

December 2024

Like Luigi, 'Dexter' has pretty privilege

Looksmaxxing killers were always a thing since Miami's *finest* blood spatter expert Dexter Morgan first rolled out the clear plastic. Now he's back in…

Dec 22, 2024 •

Armando Dela Cruz

March 2024

'Immaculate' & other horrors

Sydney Sweeney gets fully in the habit of making horror with ‘Immaculate,’ an austere thriller about the horrors of bodily autonomies. Plus, this week’s…

Mar 31, 2024 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'Stopmotion' & other horrors

Nightmares bleed into creative work in Robert Morgan's fascinating if narratively flat horror. Plus, this week's horror recommendations.

Mar 26, 2024 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'Frogman' & other horrors

Anthony Cousins' found-footage film about an amphibian cryptid doesn't seem like it buys into its own ridiculousness. Plus, this week's horror…

Mar 17, 2024 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'Monolith' & other horrors

Overdue collection of capsule thoughts on recent horror films, including Matt Vesely's excellent thriller 'Monolith,' Jonathan Glazer's singular 'The…

Mar 10, 2024 •

Armando Dela Cruz

January 2024

'Night Swim' & other horrors

Bryce McGuire's new film - following a nuclear family terrorized by a haunted swimming pool-refuses to embrace the silliness of its premise nor the…

Jan 31, 2024 •

Armando Dela Cruz

October 2023

'The Exorcist: Believer' & other horrors

David Gordon Green's messy 'Exorcist' "requel" spawns a superfluous, deeply unscary story about the intersectionality of faith.

Oct 8, 2023 •

Armando Dela Cruz

September 2023

'A Haunting in Venice' & other horrors

Kenneth Branagh's third Poirot mystery finds the reluctant sleuth wrestles with deep-seated guilt as he brushes shoulders with the supernatural.

Sep 18, 2023 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'The Nun II' & other horrors

Michael Chaves brings visual intrigue to an otherwise entirely bereft occult horror-whoddunit that, like recent 'Conjuring' outings, rests entirely on…

Sep 13, 2023 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'Perpetrator' & other horrors

Part feminist horror, and part witchcraft thriller, Jennifer Reeder's new horror-mystery is an ineffable scatter of ideas.

Sep 3, 2023 •

Armando Dela Cruz

August 2023

'Bad Things' happen here

'The Shining' comparisons aside, Stewart Thorndike's suspenseful new film offers little nuance in its ideas about trauma.

Aug 27, 2023 •

Armando Dela Cruz

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