PETERSON REVIEWS
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Houses in Motion
On ‘Relic’ and ‘Swallow,’ two horror releases you might have missed this year.
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‘From Beyond’: Not Quite as Good as ‘Re-Animator’
But even if ‘From Beyond’ doesn’t really work, it’s hard to outrightly dislike.
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‘Ichi the Killer’ Gets Old Fast
There comes a moment where we realize that it might be better for our sake to stop engaging and simply leave the room.
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‘The Black Hole’ is Better Than a ‘Star Wars’ Ripoff
It’s still a failure, but it’s an interesting failure.
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I Think, Therefore You Are
Horror mavens John Carpenter and Wes Craven took risks in the 1990s with ‘In the Mouth of Madness’ and ‘Vampire in Brooklyn.’
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‘The Raven’ is the Most Charming of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Series
This is a rambunctious horror-adjacent movie frequently operating at the fever pitch of a farce.
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‘Messiah of Evil’ is Unforgettably Bone-Chilling
‘Messiah of Evil’ grabs a hold of one’s fear of the unknown and squeezes and squeezes.
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‘Cuadecuc, vampir’ Improves On Its Source Material
It’s a little misleading to call ‘Cuadecuc, vampir’ a making-of documentary.
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Splat!
On ‘Zombi 2’ and ‘The House by the Cemetery,’ gore classics from Lucio Fulci
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‘Mad Love’ Finds Peter Lorre at the Peak of His Powers
This is a horror movie that delights in the macabre as much as a comedy luxuriates in a good laugh.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Three horror-omnibus movies.
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On ‘Viy’
Based on an 1800s horror novella by Nikolai Gogol, ‘Viy’ is frightening in a what-if-this-happened-to-me kind of way.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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‘Bigger Than Life”s Resounding Anger
By the film’s end, which offers no resounding resolution, you feel practically pummeled by its driving dilemma.
August 19, 2026
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May 13. 2026
Strong, Stoic Types
Director-star Paul Newman’s 1971 treatment of Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’ perceptively observes the corrosiveness of toxic masculinity.
August 7, 2026
Working Girls
‘Broken Mirrors,’ Marleen Gorris’ 1984 follow-up to her still-transcendent feminist drama ‘A Question of Silence,’ expands on its predecessor’s themes while dramatically improving on its writer-director’s aesthetic command.
July 9, 2026
Found Connections
Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ was a breakthrough for lesbian representation in cinema. It also achieves another rarified thing: Characters who feel like they exist outside a screenplay’s bounds.
June 30, 2026
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