Ghouls Next Door

They Live is a timeless science fiction, dystopian piece of media criticism. Director John Carpenter argues the film is a documentary, and he says what we’re all thinking, using alien overlords to reveal the real-world villains of Mass Media, Big Corporations, and the Surveillance state. All of Carpenter’s nightmares have only increased since the 1988 release, with the rise of Flock cameras, media conglomerates taking over the communication world, and the advertising business infiltrating every waking minute of our lives.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a triumphant and heartbreaking tale of human resilience. Against the backdrop of the end of the world, Carl and his fellow crawlers fight for their lives against a system hell bent on minimizing them to tools of entertainment. Turns out aliens are real and they’ve got intergalactic reality shows of Hunger Games-proportions.

Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice, cautions us against the horrors of forgiving, forgetting, and relinquishing control. A tale told before its time, watching it merely two years after its release, the film feels disturbingly prescient in a post Epstein Files ‘release’ world.

Obsession is an insidiously terrifying new horror film that follows Bear after he makes an ill-advised, harmful, and desperate wish for his crush, Nikki, to love him more than anything else in the world.
Obsession is timely and unsettlingly so, confronting current-day horrors around the male loneliness epidemic and the ways young men are weaponizing their existence against women.

The Menu is a brilliant, vicious critique of celebrity chef culture. The dark comedy film confronts the absurdity around elite fine dining experiences that have taken the “love out of eating.”