Our favorite colorful horror 🩷, 'Saint Clare' literally kills 🔪, A mind-melting double feature 📺, & more!

The #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days Challenge returns for Its 6th Year. Born out of boredom during the lockdown phase of Covid, the challenge has grown exponentially and is an annual tradition among participants. It encourages folks to set aside watching only their comfort watches during spooky season and find new favorites from films they haven’t seen before.

Get Super Rad (Rob Cousineau and Chris Rosik) delivers a taut, nerve-ending thriller in So Fades the Light. Sun, played by Kiley Lotz, endured psychological and emotional trauma growing up in a cult. Years later, she's now living out of her fan and travels the country. As her journey to self-discovery comes to a close, she feels the need to return to where she grew up. Little does she know, The Reverend has just been released from prison and is making his way back home, too. Lotz delivers a 1-2 sucker punch performance, as she untangles the past and confronts her pain. It's nothing to what she is about to encounter. Sometimes, to put the past to rest, you must kill parts of yourself. [written by Bee]

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea is a delightfully campy crime/thriller that possesses thematic relevancy. During an epidemic, which turns bath salt abusers into cannibals, landlady Liz (Brian Patrick Butler) rules with an iron thumb, even the cops beckon to her every whim. As tenants grow anxious over her rule, they begin to plot a scheme to overthrow their oppressor. But the all-knowing Liz tightens her grip on the residents. Butler supplies Liz with an over-the-top performance that'll both terrify and make you giggle. It's as though he's taking cues from Leatherface, circa The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. It's that outrageous. Initially released on the heels of the 2024 election, it's always a relevant take on tyrannical powers and the subservient lower class. [written by Bee]

Bella Throrne dazzles onscreen in Mitzi Peirone's Saint Clare. Peirone, behind the cult classic Braid, returns with a sophomore effort to die for. Thorne plays Clare, a troubled young woman who suffers from hallucinations, harbors bloodthirsty tendencies. As we learn through a series of flashbacks, she's always possessed a darker, more killer side. When she gets a ride home one afternoon with a stranger, her heart-pounding instincts are put to the test. The incident supplies a host of new problems and new dead bodies. Much like Clare (Jamie Alvey) in Bystanders, Thorne's Clare slaughters the worst kinds of men. Her latest crusade leads her down a dark, winding path that'll prove to reveal something dangerous about a classmate. Saint Clare arrives as one of the year's best treats; mangled man flesh and carnal revenge will allow the viewing a necessary cathartic release. Much like her previous feature, Peirone's new film spotlights a knack of visual storytelling, even ripping a particular trick from Braid to accentuate the underlining messages about vigilante justice and accountability. [written by Bee]

I love stumbling upon a film trailer and being totally blown away. That's the feeling I have with The Knife, co-written by Creep's own Mark Duplass and former NFL player and the film's director Nnamdi Asomugha. It's billed as a thriller, but the trailer teases something much more disturbing. I'm in!

Based on a viral Craigslist ad, The Plastic Men seems to examine the aftereffects of the Vietnam war on veterans' mental health. While not a new conceit, the trailer looks engaging enough with the horror elements to keep you locked into the mayhem and spiraling out. I'll give it a chance.

Access:Horror film festival will return this year, a hybrid festival and industry summit, both online and live in New York City, to celebrate disability in horror and genre cinema. Named as one of the most accessible film festivals in the nation by Forbes,  Access: Horror will kick off events on August 1st  with a 6-hour program at DCTV Firehouse Cinema (87 Lafayette St.) in New York City. The festival is happening in partnership with the George A. Romero Foundation, and features the tagline, “So Inclusive, It’s Scary.”