Horror remains at the top of the tree in terms of new releases for 2026, particularly as other genres underperform at the box office. Loads of big releases upcoming - some original, many not…
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Happy new fear one and all 
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Strangers Part 3 hype train starts here. Choo choo!
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A Desert is good, but guessing you’ve seen it. Heard Mother of Flies was good too.
Aye I have, its more the quantity tbh
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Oh hey @SloameOcean , just listened to the 1983 episode of A Year In Horror podcast 
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Nice! Was planning on posting about this on here soon, been a bit behind on listening to these ones. Reminded me that I’ve been meaning to check out Ogroff, it sounds like exactly the kind of awful I love. I’m so glad that he keeps getting in touch to do these, he’s a very cool human.
I looked up Ogroff, but not sure I can sit through the whole of something that I’m pretty sure will be garbage 
Looking through the cover art for 1983 is like I’ve just travelled back in time to our local video store when I was a kid (1983 may well be the year we got our first VHS player thinking about it)…
Enjoyed your bit on Eyes Of Fire. Have very powerful memories of that as I had a double bill evening watching it following immediately having seen Woodland Dark And Days Bewitched when I had covid and was isolating in our attic room. Watched a LOT of films that week tbh.
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Sorry @JaguarPirate Heart Eyes wasn’t for me, can definitely see why folks would enjoy it but I think this was the point I lost any hope in the film, not a fan of films saying one thing and us seeing another, thumb is never in her fist (see The Shrouds for this too):-
Harsh critics!
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When he sent the list of films over to choose to chat about, there were so many I could have gone for. Ended up narrowing it down to Eyes of Fire and Angst, so I was happy to see that someone else went with Angst. Got another chat scheduled for the end of January - went with a sequel in one of my favourite franchises this time…
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It was just the straw, still puzzled why anyone would punch a window pane. Normally I can park disbelief if everything else holds up but this one never won me back unfortunately. Sorry mate, still glad I watched it.
Interested in Angst plus the film that was suggested to pair with it (The Golden Glove) but need to be in a very specific mood for that kind of bleak watch…
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Yeah, you’re definitely going to want to watch Angst on a nice sunny day when all is good in your life…
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Might also rewatch V - loved that so much as a kid…
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Stuff I watched over the festive period…
Sisu: Road To Revenge - some might say that this is basically the same as the first film. Only they’d be wrong, as the bad guys in this are soviets rather than nazis so it’s completely different. In fairness, the action is ramped up to even more ridiculously high levels - I’m guessing due to a bigger budget. If you liked the first one, you’ll like this one.
Strange Harvest - kind of Seven meets true crime meets a video nasty. And this definitely is nasty in places. Gets the tone of the true crime documentaries it is emulating down very well, and uses a variety of filming styles well. Seems like the ending has been somewhat marmitey, but I enjoyed this.
Two Witches - this is clearly operating on a budget, but makes the most of its creepy atmosphere. It’s set up as a film of two chapters, and it’s not obvious at first what the second half has to do with the first. If you like the crone character from Drag Me To Hell, then you’ll probably enjoy this.
Anaconda - no, not that one, the new one. Rebooting unintentionally comedic 90s creature feature as a straightforward comedy is definitely an idea. It’s Jack Black and Paul Rudd, so you pretty much know what you’re getting. The snake FX pay homage to the gloriously rubbish original which is very pleasing. Still manages to fit in some decent snake deaths.
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Enjoyed the director’s previous two films (Caveat and Oddity) so excited for this…
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Watched last night, Abraham’s Boys…
A direct canonical sequel to the original Dracula had me intrigued - why had this not generated more buzz (particularly in a year that saw the release of Nosferatu and Luc Besson’s Dracula)? This is from the same Joe Hill short story collection that contained The Black Phone, and like the adaptation of that this suffers from feeling that it only contains enough story for a short. The set up is decent - Van Helsing and Mina Harker are now hiding out in rural USA 20 years after the events of Dracula. Titus Welliver and Jocelin Donahue are both decent genre actors and play the roles nicely. There’s some nice cinematography, particularly a couple of genuinely creepy vampire/shadow moments. However, the story is extremely thin and the ending feels rushed/bodged. Shame, as my main disappointment with Nosferatu was that it felt too in thrall to its source material so always interested in folk trying new stuff with the vampire genre.
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Think I had a similar reaction to you, nice idea poorly executed. Shame really as like you say, not enough creative writing to extend these narratives.
Great poster too.