slow burn horror

Good Boy

By Jason Delgado | October 2025

Until my latest dog, whom I’ve had for eight years, I honestly did not have much luck growing up with “man’s best…

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Good Boy

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Until my latest dog, whom I've had for eight years, I honestly did not have much luck growing up with "man's best friend." I had been chased by a pit bull...

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The Cellar

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LearX

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Rogelio Rios is the producer, editor, director of photography, writer, director, and star of LearX. Rios is David, a well-mannered, though nervous,...

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Descendent

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Very much in the vein of producers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's low-budget fare, filmmaker Peter Cilella's feature debut, Descendent, adeptly mixes...

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Bury Me When I’m Dead

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Writer-director Seabold Krebs's Bury Me When I’m Dead, his debut, is a psychological horror film that deliberately distances itself from the jump-scare...

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The Sins Beneath

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Writer/director Aaron Christian Paderewski and co-writer Jason Usry roll out a slow-burning horror thriller with The Sins Beneath. A New York family moves...

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Toxoplasma

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Toxoplasma does not jump out to scare you. It slowly seeps into your bloodstream and alters the way you think about horror, and maybe about...

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Soul Reaper

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NOW ON VOD! Soul Reaper takes its time digging a grave and then quietly invites you to lie in it. Director Sidharta Tata delivers a moody, folklore-driven...

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