Self Help Serves Cult Horror with a Side of Dark Comedy
Bloomquist crafts an effectively unsettling cult horror that balances dark comedy with genuine psychological menace, anchored by strong ensemble work.
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Head Case (Fantasia Fest 2025) Review – Influencer Culture Meets Dark Comedy in a Killer Short
At Fantasia Fest 2025, Head Case turns influencer culture into a grisly farce. Spencer Zimmerman’s short is weird, sharp, and uncomfortably relatable.
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Slasher | 2020s | Comedy | Film Reviews | Horror | Mystery | Release Year | Shudder
Clown in a Cornfield (2025) Review – Blood, Barn Parties & Silly Mayhem
In Clown in a Cornfield (2025), Frendo the clown haunts a dying Midwestern town in a blood-soaked horror-thriller that pits nostalgia against chaos. Directed by Eli Craig, starring Katie Douglas and Aaron Abrams, this cornfield carnival of carnage delivers jump scares, slasher tropes, and a few surprises, though not all land clean.
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Horror | 2020s | Comedy | Creature Features & Animal Horror | Fantasia Film Festival | Film Festivals Around the World | Film Reviews | Release Year | Supernatural | Vampires
Hold the Fort (Fantasia 2025): HOA Horror Meets Silly Monster Mayhem
Hold the Fort (Fantasia 2025) is a horror-comedy where homeownership comes with hellspawn battles, HOA absurdities, exploding heads, and a mercenary named McScruffy. Review by Mother of Movies.
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Film Reviews | 2020s | Comedy | Creature Features & Animal Horror | Horror | International Cinema | Japanese Film | Release Year
Welcome to the Onsenocalypse: A Review of Hot Spring Shark Attack
Hot Spring Shark Attack (2025) is a Japanese horror-comedy that blends absurdist shark attacks, spa tourism satire, and surprisingly competent filmmaking into a cult-worthy splash. Directed by Morihito Inoue and streaming via Utopia, the film flexes rubber sharks, weird science, and oiled-up heroes with comic finesse.
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The Monkey (Review) It’s Not Just Haunted, It’s Violently Petty.
The Monkey wreaks havoc in this darkly absurd, gore-splashed horror from Osgood Perkins. Brotherly trauma + cymbal crashes never looked so good
