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Obsession (2025): A Psychological Horror of Control and Desire

In John Truby’s book The Anatomy of Genres, his chapter on horror is one of the most interesting. The author treats it not just as a narrative genre, but as a direct expression of the human being facing death. Regarding the greatest dichotomy—life and death—the human consciousness knows we are going to die and we cannot avoid it, and the fundamental tension of horror stems from this. It is not the threatening monster, the killer, or the supernatural entity that terrifies us most; what is truly disturbing is the contradiction that being alive is the only condition for dying. In Obsession, director Curry Barker appeals to the most basic fundamentals of the genre to achieve a compact and powerful film that works perfectly.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Posted on April 24 by Hugo Pagan Soto

When a film needs a last name, things usually aren’t pointing in the right direction. Even sticking to the main sagas, mummy stories have spawned more than ten films. If we count remakes, spin-offs, and other adaptations, the number easily goes past twenty. So, it’s no surprise that we now get Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026), because otherwise there’d be no way to tell which monster we’re dealing with. Cronin delivers a more graphic story, exploring the mummy legend from a different angle and leaning into a harsher kind of horror with touches of gore.

Faces of Death (2026): A Disturbing Mirror of Our Time

Posted on April 15 by Hugo Pagan Soto

The first rule of content creation: give the audience what they want.

Faces of Death (2026) is an uncomfortable but necessary film. Daniel Goldhaber confronts us with the idea that nothing is more disturbing than the content we consume daily on social media. No horror imagined by fiction comes close to the micro-videos that flow through our devices, disguised as harmless by the screen’s illusion of distance. Goldhaber accuses us of not being innocent spectators; we are guilty voyeurs.

Send Help (2026): Horror Meets Corporate Ambition

Posted on March 6 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Since 2009, when he made Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi had not stepped so firmly back into the territory of horror. With Send Help (2026), he returns to his roots and crafts a film that uses terror as a vehicle to deliver a harsh critique of the inhuman ferocity of the modern corporate world. As is customary with Raimi, the story is built from very simple premises that require little exposition for the audience to enter the world the protagonists must inhabit.

Safety Last! (1923): An Eternal Classic

Posted on February 20 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Even if you are not a cinema lover, you have surely seen at some point in your life the image of a man hanging from a clock high up on a building. That man is Harold Lloyd, and the image comes from the film Safety Last! (1923). This is one of the most important films in cinema history, one that forever changed the rules of the game. Alongside Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd’s figure is one of the most representative of Hollywood’s silent era.