The Fear Review

Insidious: Out of the Further takes the franchise somewhere darker, and after six movies, this one actually managed to disturb both of us.

Amy found this entry heavier than the previous films and there were several scenes she simply refused to watch, including one that left her genuinely nauseated. William could handle watching it, but even he admits this movie got under his skin in a way ...

The Lambert family survived The Further together. So why does Insidious: The Red Door begin with everything falling apart?

For the final movie in our Further into the Further event, we’re talking about the return of Josh and Dalton, the fractured Lambert family, and whether turning the solution from Insidious: Chapter 2 into the problem driving this movie was a smart way to bring their story full circle.

We also get into the ...

Insidious: The Last Key may be the least scary entry in the franchise so far, but does trading some of those relentless scares for a stronger story actually make it worse?

We’re halfway through Further into the Further, and this time William and Amy find a very different kind of Insidious movie. Elise moves firmly to the center of the story as the franchise digs into her childhood, her abilities, and a threat where the line b...

Amy thought Insidious: Chapter 3 might finally be the easy one. Instead, it scared her more than the first two.

For the third movie in our Further into the Further event, we look at why Leigh Whannell’s first turn directing the franchise feels darker and meaner, why the Man Who Can’t Breathe got Amy so badly, and how Insidious somehow keeps finding new ways to scare her.

We discuss:

• Why Chapter 3 feels different f...

Insidious: Chapter 2 picks up right where the first movie left off, and Amy was apparently wrong to expect the sequel to give her a break.

Sequels often soften the scares or repeat what worked the first time, but this one still hit hard enough that Amy needed a weighted blanket, shut the bedroom door, and then immediately became afraid the door was going to open by itself. William thinks s...

Amy thought years of watching horror would make Insidious easier this time. Instead, she walked away wondering if it might be even scarier than The Conjuring.

We’re going Further into the Further as we revisit every Insidious movie before Insidious: Out of the Further. We start with James Wan’s original and discuss why its scares remain so unpredictable, how it makes ghosts app...

The Yeti needed more Yeti.

This old-school creature feature has a great late-1940s Alaskan look, strong performances, and a monster we genuinely wanted to see. The problem is that most of the kills happen off camera, the Yeti remains hidden behind fog and noise, and several character decisions left us wondering what anyone was thinking.

Amy explains why the atmosphere never became creepy for her, while William considers whether the...

Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man looks bright, colorful, and almost wholesome. Then the blood starts flowing and barely stops.

Amy expected the movie to be far too graphic for her. She spent much of it covering her ears and squinting through the kills, but somehow, she still had fun. William expected an Eli Roth gorefest, but even he was surprised by how playful, energetic, and strang...

Spider Man is back, and this might be Tom Holland's best outing yet.

After everything Peter Parker lost in No Way Home, Brand New Day takes the character in a fresh direction while delivering bigger action, more emotion, and some of the most brutal Spider Man moments we've seen on screen. We also talk about why this version of Peter feels more grown up, the chemistry between Spider Man and another fan-favorite character, and the fe...

Neither of us ever wants to watch Nightborn again. Somehow, that still was not enough to make us agree on whether horror fans should see it.

Nightborn follows a couple who move into an isolated house in the Finnish forest to start a family. After their son is born, Saga becomes convinced there is something terribly wrong with him, even as everyone around her insists he is fine.

Amy put William back in the doghouse almost immediatel...

Amy didn't just dislike Her Private Hell. She says it may be the worst movie she's ever seen.

In this review, William and Amy discuss Nicolas Winding Refn's latest nightmare, from its dreamlike storytelling and neon-soaked visuals to the overwhelming music, confusing narrative, and the moments that left them wondering how much time was actually left.

We stay spoiler-free through our discus...

Exit 8 traps a man inside an endless subway corridor where one overlooked anomaly sends him all the way back to the beginning. The rules sound simple, but Exit 8 quickly turned us from passive viewers into players studying every poster, door, vent, and person on the screen.

We discuss:

• How the repeating corridor keeps the movie engaging instead of becoming repetitive
• Why we started pl...

Writer/director Georgia Bernstein joins The Fear Review to talk about her debut feature, Night Nurse, which premiered at Sundance and is releasing through IFC Films.

In this conversation, William talks with Georgia about the inspirations behind Night Nurse, the film’s complex power dynamics, the influence of David Cronenberg’s Crash, writing the lead role for Cemre, cast...

This week on The Fear Review, we’re talking about Night Nurse, the new IFC psychological thriller from writer/director Georgia Bernstein.

This one was a miss for both of us, but for slightly different reasons. William could see the ideas the movie was reaching for — power dynamics, manipulation, obsession, and a dreamlike atmosphere — but the script never fully con...

We finally reached the end of our Road to Evil Dead Burn, and this one put both of us through it. William loved how relentless Evil Dead Burn is. Amy walked away completely spent after one of the most intense horror experiences she's had in a theater.

The gore is bigger. The action is faster. But what surprised us most wasn’t just how bloody it gets, but how mean this movie feels com...

We wrapped up our Road to Evil Dead Burn by revisiting the 2013 remake of Evil Dead… and it completely changed Amy's opinion of the movie.

William still thinks it's one of the strongest entries in the franchise thanks to its brutal gore, smarter character setup, and relentless horror.

Amy isn't convinced. After watching Bruce Campbell's original trilogy for the first time, the cabin...

Continuing our Road to Evil Dead Burn, we’re talking Army of Darkness — and this one completely surprised Amy.

After avoiding it for years because she thought it was basically Monty Python with horror, Amy finally watched Army of Darkness all the way through…and it became her favorite Evil Dead movie so far. We talk about why this one feels more like Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Goonies than t...

We’re continuing our road to Evil Dead Burn with Evil Dead II, and this is the movie where the franchise really starts to feel like the Evil Dead everyone remembers.

The original was straight horror. This one brings in the slapstick, the bigger Deadites, the chainsaw hand, and the moment where Ash finally becomes Ash.

We talk about why this sequel feels so different, why Amy had more fun with it than the original, and why Bru...

We’re kicking off our Road to Evil Dead Burn with the movie that started it all: The Evil Dead.

William has loved this franchise for years. Amy thought she knew it because she knew Ash, the chainsaw, and the quotes.

Turns out, the original is a very different beast.

Before the boomstick, before the one-liners, and before Ash became the Ash everyone remembers, Sam Raimi’s 1981 original was a gritty, gross, straight-up ho...