The Fear Review

Bloody Tennis star Sandra Guldberg Kampp joins The Fear Review to talk about playing Sophie as the movie gets increasingly strange, brutal and downright disgusting.

Sandra takes us through Sophie's gradual transformation, how she kept the character grounded while everything around her went completely off the rails, and the physical preparation that went into the role. We also talk about her two months of tennis training, accidental...

Bloody Tennis director Nikias Chryssos joins The Fear Review to talk about building the film's escalating brutality, unnerving body horror and the ambition that drives its players past any reasonable limit.

We get into why some of the movie's smallest injuries can be more uncomfortable than its biggest acts of violence, how heightened body sounds and medical examinations were used to keep ...

Kung Fu Deadly mixes martial arts, Jiangshi, slapstick comedy and a surprising amount of heart and somehow all of it works.

We caught the film as part of our Fantastic Fest 2026 coverage, and this ended up being way more fun than either of us expected. Amy got serious The Goonies and Little Monsters vibes, while William loved how the movie works physical comedy directly into its kung-fu ac...

No Rest for the Wicked director Kasper Kalle joins The Fear Review to talk about bringing Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’ 1884 short story Manor to the screen, filming in the Faroe Islands, and adapting a very different kind of vampire story that predates Dracula.

Kalle discusses why the Faroe Islands needed to feel like more than a beautiful backdrop, casting first-time film actor Egor Venned as Baldur opposite Pilou Asbæk, and why t...

The Squirrel writer/director Markus Lehmusruusu and star Mimosa Willamo join The Fear Review following the film’s Fantastic Fest international premiere.

Markus explains why the most frightening thing about the movie’s future isn’t an evil government or some obvious villain, it’s that people were free to choose, and gradually chose comfort, safety and convenience for...

The Squirrel drops us into a future where everything is clean, safe and controlled. People have traded intimacy, freedom and a little bit of chaos for comfort and then Pasi discovers what may be the last living squirrel on Earth.

We caught The Squirrel as part of our Fantastic Fest 2026 coverage, and this strange Finnish sci-fi movie completely won both of us over. William and Amy talk abo...

Amy said months ago that she was not going to see another Zach Cregger movie in a theater. Then the first 30 minutes of Resident Evil scared her enough to change her mind.

After buying tickets in Orlando for the complete movie, we break down its sudden turn into extreme body horror, why Austin Abrams makes the chaos work, and whether this original side story actually feels like a Resident Evil game. It is scary, funny and much more...

Littermates writers/directors Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson join The Fear Review ahead of Fantastic Fest to talk about building a movie designed to keep audiences questioning what they can trust.

Scott and Michael break down the mystery surrounding Chester, Liam and Mel essentially growing up all over again, why they deliberately refused to over-explain the world outside the cottage, a...

Onslaught should have been an easy win: super soldiers, buckets of blood, over-the-top action, Dan Stevens and a movie that seems determined to turn everything up to 15.

So how did all that chaos somehow stop being fun?

William and Amy get into the repetitive action sequences, the supposedly elite super soldiers who start feeling more like three Michael Myers, the Grindhouse style, some questionable choices involving Dan Stevens, p...

Colony, the latest infected horror film from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho, gave us two very different reactions.

Amy went in excited but found the movie repetitive and eventually checked out. William agreed that the 122-minute runtime could have been tighter, but the evolving infected and hive-mind concept were enough to keep him invested.

We discuss the grotesque infected, the cha...

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...