Horror movie reviews artfully conducted by four classy broads and one token dude.

The Bloodlust 9/29/25 The Bloodlust 9/29/25

286 | Cuckoo

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 42min
Written & Directed by Tilman Singer
Stars: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens and Marton Csokas
Premiered at Berlin International Film Festival February 16, 2024
Released in US August 9, 2024
RT: 78% critics / 58% audience
Currently in theaters
Synopsis
17yr old Gretchen is sent to live with her father and his new family in Germany after the death of her mother. Her father and step mother work for the mysterious Herr Konig, who has sent for them to stay near the resort they designed for him, and who takes a strange interest in Gretchen and her mute half-sister, Alma. When Gretchen gets a job working at the hotel, she notices that some of the female guests are exhibiting strange behaviors.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Good Boy, opening in theaters October 3.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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The Bloodlust 9/25/23 The Bloodlust 9/25/23

235 | Perpetrator

Written & Directed by Jennifer Reeder
Stars Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Lowell
Not Rated
Runtime: 1hr 41mins
Premiered at Berlin International Film Festival February 17, 2023
Released September 1, 2023
RT: 80% critics, 32% audience
Synopsis
Teenage outcast Jonny is sent to live with her strange aunt in a town where girls have been going missing. As her aunt introduces Jonny to her burgeoning new powers, she decides to utilize them to find her missing classmates.

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing V/H/S 85, streaming on Shudder starting October 6.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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The Bloodlust 9/11/23 The Bloodlust 9/11/23

234 | Cobweb

Directed by Samuel Bodin
Written by Chris Thomas Devlin
Stars Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 28mins
Released in the July 21, 2023
RT: 59% critics, 71% audience
Synopsis
A lonely little boy with overprotective parents is kept up at night by a tapping on his bedroom walls.

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing Perpetrator, currently streaming on Shudder.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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The Bloodlust 10/3/21 The Bloodlust 10/3/21

184 | No One Gets Out Alive

Directed by Santiago Menghini
Written by Jon Croker (story by) and Fernanda Coppel (novel by Adam Nevill)
Stars Cristina Rodlo, Marc Menchaca, David Figlioli
Premiered on Netflix 9/29/2021
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 25min
RT: 71% critics 63% audience (fewer than 50 audience reviews)
Synopsis
A young woman rents a room in a creepy old house. The landlord said there was only one other tenant besides himself, yet she keeps hearing crying coming from supposedly empty rooms and running into strange people in the halls. And then there are the strange nightmares she’s been having since moving in...

Next up, the long awaited sequel to the rebooted sequel to Halloween, Halloween Kills. That’s right, it’s time for more Jamie Lee Curtis and her distinguished natural grey hair kicking ass and taking names, along with her daughter, Judy Greer. I just love that those two are the leads again. Assuming the trailer hasn’t misled us. Guess we’ll finally find out.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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The Bloodlust 6/13/21 The Bloodlust 6/13/21

176 | A Quiet Place Pt II

Written & Directed by John Krasinski

Stars Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Cillian Murphy

Released May 28, 2021

Available in theaters

Rated PG-13

Runtime: 1hr 37mins

RT: 91% critics, 93% audience

Synopsis

We rejoin the Abbott family pretty much right where we left them, grieving the death of husband/father Lee and preparing to leave their ruined home. When they reach a factory not too far away they find that a former friend has also survived and has been using the building as his home. While her mother is preoccupied with replenishing their supplies, daughter Regan forms a plan to follow a radio signal off the coast to share her discovery with a settlement that might be located on an island.

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Hopefully we like it better than the other ones…

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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The Bloodlust 5/30/21 The Bloodlust 5/30/21

175 | Army of the Dead

Directed by Zack Snyder

Stars Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera

Released 5/21/2021

Available on Netflix

Rated R

Runtime: 2hrs 28mins

RT: 69% critics, 75% audience

Synopsis: An army transport accident leads to a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas. Many people are killed but the city is eventually walled off, the outbreak contained within Vegas. Scott Ward (Dave Bautista) was a hero in the outbreak, but now works as a line cook in a diner, having become estranged from his daughter. One day a mysterious millionaire offers him a heist job that will pay big. The only catch? The vault is in Las Vegas, of course. Can Ward and his team get the money and get out alive? And can they do it before a nuclear bomb is dropped, annihilating the city?

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing A Quiet Place part deux. Let’s see if they came up with an interesting follow-up to the first film, without her having another baby…

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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The Bloodlust 5/16/21 The Bloodlust 5/16/21

174 | Willy's Wonderland

Directed by Kevin Lewis; From a screenplay written by: G.O. Parsons

Stars Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant

Released 2/12/2021

Available for rent on Amazon Prime

TV-MA

Runtime: 1hr 28mins

RT: 62% critics, 74% audience

Synopsis: When a man finds himself in a weird town after running over a spike strip and ruining all his tires, he’s offered the job of cleaning out the town’s cursed/closed themed restaurant, Willy’s Wonderland. What the man doesn’t know, however, is that the animatronic characters in the restaurant have a sordid past and come alive to do what they do best…KILL!

The horror world will never outrun zombies. But since it’s been a while since we’ve covered a zombie flick, if you join us next time, we’ll be reviewing the Netflix released, Army of the Dead.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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