🩸 Sarcastic and fierce, but with a genuine and hidden love for the seventh art. Dissects movies with a narrative scalpel, celebrating talent and thrashing mediocrity.
"Being mediocre is an insult to the price of admission."
Aaron Sorkin attempts to put Big Tech on trial but ends up reproducing the very same cheap dopamine he purports to denounce in The Price of the Network.
One diver, one hour of air and a sperm whale's stomach: Brian Duffield turns grief into survival horror. Worth watching? With reservations: 6.8/10.
A scathing critique of María José Araújo's sparse work, where the mirror shatters in six minutes of pretension and talent.
An acid-cynical review that dismantles the pseudo-horror of Megan Is Missing, exposing its riddled script and low-caliber production.
Rob Jabbaz detonates the infected-cinema genre with a torrent of ultraviolent, depraved destruction that redefines the boundaries of contemporary gore.
The Philippou brothers make their explosive A24 debut with a suffocating, hyper-realistic horror film that reinvents possession movies for the TikTok era.
Joe Dante turned holiday terror into black comedy with absurd rules. Forty years later, it remains a marvel of controlled chaos and a how-to manual on making monsters adorable.
A scathing review of *Apocalypse Now*, a film that drags you kicking and screaming into the madness of war
Damien Leone spews his love for '80s gore in 19 minutes of psychopathic clownery. Genius or puke? Claqueta Ácida dissects the embryo of Art the Clown.
A British mystery series that promises chills but delivers yawns. Simon Ashdown crafts a domestic thriller with more holes than Swiss cheese.
A pop star’s rise to fame in *Vox Lux: The Price of Fame*. But at what cost?
Universal Pictures gifts us an alien invasion thriller so predictable even the extraterrestrials are yawning. Ice Cube and Eva Longoria try to salvage something, but the script is flatter than a roadmap.
Christopher Nolan dismantles memory like a Swiss watch in this twisted-structure masterpiece. Guy Pearce shines, but the script is the real monster here.
James Wan produces, Corin Hardy directs, and the demon Valak repeats ad nauseam. Soulless industrial horror that reeks of sanctity... but the kind that’s gone stale.
Almodóvar drags us into a world where fascination and terror stitch themselves together like a second skin—literally.
David Robert Mitchell revolutionized indie horror with a hypnotic, beautiful nightmare about teenage paranoia, latent AIDS, and the walking dead.
Sean Byrne bursts onto the Australian horror scene with a bubblegum-pink gem of sadism and suffocating tension that redefines torture porn.
Álex de la Iglesia turns the Apocalypse into an orgy of gore, black humor, and punk metal. Art or sacrilege? Acid Claquette decides.
John Carpenter delivers a Lovecraftian nightmare with Sam Neill teetering on the edge of the abyss. A masterpiece of cosmic horror or a self-parody with literary pretensions? Here’s the autopsy.
Adrian Chiarella delivers this 'Australian exorcism' that hovers between gothic pretension and unintentional absurdity. Art or autopsy of a soulless script?
Fabrice Du Welz and his shadow ballet in the Belgian underworld. Du Welz delivers a gothic thriller teetering between visual virtuosity and baroque excess—155 minutes of nightmare and obsession.
Richard Donner delivers a horror classic with more fangs than a vampire at a clearance sale. Damien Thorn: the most evil kid since cinema discovered that evil smells like sulfur and cheap hair gel.
Robert Eggers made his debut with a rigorous and hypnotic Gothic tale about the religious paranoia of a 17th-century colonist family and the whispers of Black Phillip, the goat who’s either the devil or just really good at small talk.
A scathing review of the animated sequel that promises multiverses but delivers less than the web can handle.
*A scathing takedown of the horror series everyone’s raving about—spoiler: it’s not that deep.*
A review of Kristoffer Borgli’s acclaimed A24-produced film. A suffocating, uncomfortable, and brilliant journey into the mental collapse of an engaged couple.
Fabrice Du Welz reimagines the myth of the lonely hearts killers in a feverish whirlwind of jealousy, submission, and blood, led by Lola Dueñas in a performance that’s equal parts hypnotic and harrowing.
Bustillo and Maury fuse the spirit of *Stand by Me* with the ultra-violent rural slasher vibe of *The Texas Chain Saw Massacre* in a raw, physical film that hits like a sucker punch.
Can Evrenol reinvents Ottoman horror with a literal descent into hell, where surreal gore and dark mythology fuse into an indelible nightmare.
Jeremy Saulnier reinvents the revenge genre with a stark, tense, and brutally realistic portrait of violence’s disastrous consequences.
S. Craig Zahler delivers a staggeringly dry, deliberate, and brutal crime-and-prison thriller, featuring a colossal and relentless Vince Vaughn.
Fabrice Du Welz makes his debut with a masterpiece of European transgressive cinema—a fog-drenched, deeply unsettling ordeal that dissects loneliness and rural madness.
Prano Bailey-Bond crafts a mesmerizing psychological and metacinematic journey into the heart of 1980s British censorship hysteria.
S. Craig Zahler delivers a monumental, nihilistic neo-noir heist thriller—corrupt cops, bone-dry violence, and nearly three hours of unrelenting suspense.
Jeremy Saulnier delivers an ultra-violent, claustrophobic survival thriller that traps a punk band in a deadly, inescapable nightmare.
Fabrice Du Welz crafts an obsessive, elegant, and relentless psychological thriller set in a mansion hiding unspeakable creative secrets.
Ben Wheatley blends British kitchen-sink drama with hitman cinema and the most devastating pagan folk horror of the 21st century.
Damien Power delivers a raw, relentless survival thriller that dismantles the myth of Australia’s rural lyricism, turning it into a claustrophobic and harrowing human hunt.
Bustillo and Maury cross the pond to deliver a grimy, violent, and unpredictable prequel that blows up the chainsaw myth from the ground up.
Thea Hvistendahl delivers a stunning, melancholic, and agonizing reimagining of the zombie myth, centered on grief and the existential torment of loss.
Rose Glass delivers one of the most dazzling directorial debuts in modern psychological horror with A24, blurring the razor-thin line between religious ecstasy and clinical psychosis.
Na Hong-jin bursts onto the international scene with a brutal, suffocating, and hyper-realistic crime thriller that redefines Korean noir.
Bryan Bertino delivers one of the darkest, most nihilistic, and terrifying films in contemporary horror, where grief paves the way for absolute evil.
Sean Byrne returns with a visceral canvas of auditory and visual horror where extreme art, electric guitars, and demonic possession crash together in a symphony of chaos.
Bryan Bertino fuses the raw intimacy of addiction drama with classic monster horror, crafting a claustrophobic, rain-soaked, and heart-wrenching tale.
Bryan Bertino crafts an absolute masterpiece of minimalist suspense, turning an isolated cabin into a gallows of relentless dread.
Na Hong-jin delivers one of the 21st century’s greatest horror masterpieces—a tale of shamans, demons, and rural conspiracy that dismantles reason itself.
Na Hong-jin doubles down on physical violence, human despair, and breakneck pacing in a tragic criminal epic with no redemption in sight.
Michael Shanks turns a couple’s lockdown into a nightmare of body horror and psychological toxicity, where love and physical revulsion merge in grotesque fashion.
Lucio A. Rojas delivers one of the most brutal, ruthless, and politically controversial films in Latin American extreme cinema.
Fabrice Du Welz films a feverish, sensory descent into the hell of mourning and loss, set in the bowels of a jungle that devours reason.
We dissect the big winner of the 2026 Oscars. A '70s conspiracy odyssey shot on 35mm that dazzles aesthetes and exhausts mere mortals.
Julia Ducournau shocked and captivated the Cannes Film Festival with a hypnotic, violent, and tender odyssey about human hybrids, cars, and familial redemption.
Ti West and Mia Goth team up for a mesmerizing and unhinged retro slasher that pays homage to classic Hollywood melodrama and deranged minds.
Yeon Sang-ho crafted one of the best action-horror zombie thrillers in recent memory, turning a high-speed train ride into a suffocating social hellscape.
Pascal Laugier delivers the magnum opus of the New French Extremity: a devastating plunge into systematic violence and the mystical quest for the great beyond.
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