low-budget horror

Our Happy Place

By Bradley Gibson | January 2026

Writer/director Paul Bickel brings psychological horror to life in Our Happy Place. Raya (Raya Miles) lives in a remote location while caring…

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Writer/director Paul Bickel brings psychological horror to life in Our Happy Place. Raya (Raya Miles) lives in a remote location while caring for her...

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Pulp Modern: Hand of Doom is a feature-length horror anthology that sets vintage weird tales in present-day workplaces. A sinister, sarcastic cockatoo...

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Screenwriter/director Chad Bolling's My First Year Off Campus, co-written by Jon Beauchemin, is one of those horror films where the ending is more clever,...

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Full disclosure: I smoked half a roach of weed decades ago, coughed for 10 minutes, and never went back. Apparently, many millions (zillions?) more soon...

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No crayons were harmed during the filming, but your nervous system will be attacked from all sides by the horrifying found footage feature The Children...

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Partner, I reckon you'd better be ready to jump right out of your skin when you watch the terrifying western horror movie A Town Called Purgatory, directed...

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Written and directed by Tyler Russell, The Hem is a found footage horror film set mainly in an old, abandoned church. Documentarian Ann (Savannah Rae...

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Writer-director William Briggs spins a tightly wound thriller in Silk, set on a weekend retreat full of secrets. The film eases us in with a simple...

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Director-writer Mark D. Allen messes with our minds in The Keeping. Ryan (Michael Ridley) returns home after his parents have gone missing and are presumed...

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Tim Thomerson is one of my heroes. I thought I’d seen everything he was in, so it was quite the gift to feast upon director/co-writer Mark Terry's...

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