A showcase of top-tier animation, blending various techniques and styles, including seamless 3D you barely notice, and a festival of creativity with shots you wouldn’t expect in anime (even live-action ones!). This season—and probably the entire year—doesn’t have a series with better animation or more creativity. Plus…

A pure genre pleasure. Don't look for a story as such, the answers to questions like "who? what? why?" are obscured. The likeable protagonist (the already proven scream queen Samara Weaving) is simply dealing with some post-apocalyptic cult and humanoid monsters. It's one big, 80-minute horror ride, with some really…

Gushing Over Magical Girls has been the talk of the town this season, splitting the anime community into two distinct camps. On one side, you have those who find the series repulsive — its overt explicitness combined with the young age of most of the girls here leaves a sour taste, harvesting more contempt than praise…

One of the better parts this series of found footage anthologies under the V/H/S label so far. This time around, none of the stories stand out in terms of quality, either up or down. Which is fine, it consistently held my interest at a level of moderate satisfaction. Screenwriting-wise, they don't attempt anything…

A repeated joke is not a joke, one might say. Compared to the first part, it logically lacks the hallmark of originality and the resulting surprise. On the other hand, it was nice to see that this sequel develops the original themes, and the social-critical overlay is about something a little different than last time …

A mysterious parasitic organism begins to terrorize a small American town, but no one seems to mind too much as high school students are preparing for prom. Ick is kind of Night of the Creeps combined with The Blob and spiced with nostalgia for high school comedies from around 2000, which actually sounds cool. Joseph…

A catastrophic thriller with a premise in which a mysterious deadly epidemic begins to attack the world's richest people hierarchically sounds like a sweeping theme for an episode of The Twilight Zone. Rich Flu has the problem, however, of fleshing out this magical-dystopian idea into a two-hour-long film, in all…

A decent horror film that in the first half is almost a procedural drama about how (not) to prepare for a zombie apocalypse, and in the second half it shows decent genre action with functional suspense scenes, during which you will care about the characters and root for them. We've seen more engaging, inventive, and…

A horror ride of one crazy night. The film is shot in real time, as if in one take (though no doubt with hidden edits) and formally it is a very skillfully put together spectacle, which as time passes grates more and more on the viewer's nerves and gradually picks up an unstoppable pace. Revealing anything about the…

A pure genre pleasure. Don't look for a story as such, the answers to questions like "who? what? why?" are obscured. The likeable protagonist (the already proven scream queen Samara Weaving) is simply dealing with some post-apocalyptic cult and humanoid monsters. It's one big, 80-minute horror ride, with some really…