The Hell House, LLC leaves behind the found footage format in its fifth entry, Lineage. Unfortunately, it also leaves behind tension, scares, and plot in writer-director Stephen Cognetti’s “final” entry to the franchise.
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NOSEEUMS [FRIGHTFEST LONDON 2025]
A collegiate Black woman visits a friend’s lakehouse, unearthing secret histories and man-eating bugs in Raven Carter’s Noseeums, presented through Frightfest 2025.
PIG HILL [FRIGHTFEST 2025]
A woman investigates her town’s local legend of pig people in the messy Pig Hill, directed by Kevin Lewis and written by Jarrod Burris, and presented as part of FrightFest 2025.
SELF-HELP [FRIGHTFEST 2025]
A young woman follows her mother to a cult-like enclave, has to face her demons, and see if her mom is in danger in the uneven psychological horror-drama Self-Help, presented as part of FrighFest 2025. Continue reading
Strange Harvest (2025)
The rise and fall of a serial killer in 90s and 00s San Bernardino County is recounted via a faux true-crime documentary in the scarily effective horror film Strange Harvest, from writer-director Stuart Ortiz.
Red Sonja (2025)
Red Sonja, Marvel and Dynamite’s “She-Devil with a Sword” (along with iconic chainmail bikini and flaming red hair), played with a fiery charm by Miranda Lutz, returns to the screen in director M.J. Bassett’s engaging but limited Red Sonja.
Freakier Friday (2025)
Twenty-two years after they switched bodies for a day, mother and daughter Tess and Anna find themselves in a similar, but bigger, situation in the fluffy, fun legacy sequel Freakier Friday, directed by Nisha Ganatra.