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PLOT: Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf’s Lair, one of Hitler’s WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.

REVIEW: When Becky was first released in 2020, I don’t think any of us expected it to spawn into the series that it has. But if there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to be fun, it’s Lulu Wilson killing Nazi’s in a variety of violent and over-the-top ways. And with her facing off against unexpected foes like Kevin James and Seann William Scott in past entries, it’s now time for her to take on Neil Patrick Harris with The Last Temptation of Becky.

Becky Hooper is now a CIA Agent as she infiltrates a Nazi family in Poland that is planning on sparking the Fourth Reich. Lulu Wilson brings the attitude that we’re used to, and she’s a bit more refined in how she approaches her Nazi-centered revenge. She’s grown up a bit and has gotten some training, so she’s even more physically capable. The film utilizes footage of Lulu as a young child, and it works well as a contrast to the Becky that we now have. The childish innocence and glee have been wiped out by the events of the last two films. It helps to solidify what a tragic character Becky truly is.

Neil Patrick Harris is appropriately calculated as General Wilhelm Reuss, really getting lean into the theatrics of such an over-the-top character. Harris has been playing villains lately (with a role in last season’s Dexter: Resurrection), so it’s not quite as shocking as Kevin James in the first film, but it’s still enough of a departure from his usual roles. Admittedly, I don’t always love the “this person has secretly been behind the events of the prior films” trope, but it actually works here. There are clearly more people for Becky to take out, so at least they didn’t make this the endgame of her overall mission.

The first act of The Last Temptation of Becky really follows the James Bond playbook, showing Becky on a mission, her team, and a fun little montage of what Becky’s been up to. We even get a full-blown Q-style scene where Siegel goes over all the spy gadgets that Becky will use on her mission. Once the film switches into full-blown revenge mode, I had so much fun I was smiling from ear to ear. The kills are so satisfying, and you can really feel Becky’s glee. The most satisfying horror films give us karmic retribution for evil characters, and this has that in droves.

Jenn Wexler does a good job of stepping into the director’s chair, keeping the same tone as the last film, which went slightly less serious than the character’s debut. This is the perfect tone for this kind of film to reside in, as it allows for plenty of fun while the stakes remain high. There were times when the film looks a bit too much like a TV show, with a lack of creative shots and some very flat lighting. Then the next moment it can look dynamic and beautiful. There’s an inherent cheapness to some of the spy stuff, but that’s really the only element that doesn’t entirely work.

The Becky franchise has really hit its stride with The Last Temptation of Becky. I was skeptical of making her a CIA agent, but I ended up loving that element, and it’s a fun way to keep her killing Nazis in a way that actually makes sense. Which, let’s be honest, is what we’re all buying a ticket for. While Lulu Wilson is always the star of the show, there are some fun performances from Neil Patrick Harris and James Urbaniak as well. I really hope that we’re able to get more adventures with Becky because watching Nazis die in horrific ways will always make for entertaining cinema.

The Last Temptation of Becky is Only in Theaters November 4th, 2026.

The Last Temptation of Becky

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Daisy Ridley and Sosie Bacon are teaming up for a road trip horror movie called Get Rid of It, which will also star Simon Rex. The casting news comes shortly after we heard that Ridley had landed the lead role in Paramount+’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea reimagining and Bacon had joined MGM+’s supernatural horror series The Black Tapes. Now, the two actresses are heading into feature film horror territory together.

Variety reports that Get Rid of It will be directed by Ry Russo-Young from a screenplay by Gemma Holdway. The film is scheduled to shoot at the beginning of 2027, with Upgrade, CAA Media Finance, and Range Select launching the project at the American Film Market and handling sales.

In Get Rid of It, Ridley plays Harper, who discovers she is pregnant following a one-night stand with a mysterious drifter named Miller (Rex). Harper and her sister Jessie (Bacon) set off on a cross-country road trip, but their journey becomes a fight for survival when they discover that the thing growing inside Harper may not be human.

Daisy Ridley and Sosie Bacon’s Latest Genre Projects

Ridley is best known for playing Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, which began with The Force Awakens in 2015. Her other recent credits include We Bury the Dead and Cleaner. She was recently announced as the star of Paramount+’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea reimagining, playing ocean scientist Lee Crane. The series will follow Crane as she takes command of the futuristic submarine USS Seaview and investigates mysteries involving the ocean and the legendary city of Atlantis.

Bacon, meanwhile, is familiar to horror fans thanks to her starring role in the 2022 hit Smile. She recently joined Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in MGM+’s eight-episode adaptation of the supernatural horror podcast The Black Tapes. Bacon will play Alex Regan, a physicist who initially approaches paranormal investigations as a scientific debunker before encountering evidence that challenges everything she believes.

Rex has appeared in films like Red Rocket and Bodies Bodies Bodies.

Who Is Making Get Rid of It?

David Lancaster is producing the film. His previous credits include Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, which earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination, as well as Nightcrawler and Drive. Russo-Young’s directing credits include the sci-fi teen thriller Before I Fall, starring Zoey Deutch, and the coming-of-age drama The Sun Is Also a Star, starring Charles Melton. She has also directed episodes of the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, which stars Harrison Ford and Jason Segel.

“Propulsive and playful, this project’s strength is its compelling point of view and heart beneath the horror. I’m thrilled to bring it to life with such an extraordinary and gifted group of collaborators,” said Russo-Young.

Does Get Rid of It sound interesting to you? Share your thoughts on this Daisy Ridley / Sosie Bacon horror project by leaving a comment below.

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Grindhouse Releasing is bringing Intruder, late writer/director Scott Spiegel’s 1989 supermarket slasher, to theatres this holiday season. The release will give horror fans the opportunity to see the film in its unrated director’s cut, featuring the graphic gore effects from KNB EFX Group that were trimmed to secure an R rating.

Spiegel, who co-wrote Evil Dead II with Sam Raimi, made his feature directorial debut with Intruder, a slasher that turns a grocery store into a hunting ground for a homicidal maniac. Originally titled The Night Crew, the film was written by Spiegel from a story he developed with producer Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction).

Here’s the synopsis: It’s 10 pm and the employees of Michigan’s Walnut Lake Supermarket are in for a really bad night. The place is shutting its doors for good, and the night crew has a long shift ahead of them… longer than they think! The lovely check-out girl has a deranged ex-boyfriend, the store’s phone lines are cut, and the employees start dying in the most stomach-churning ways imaginable. A deranged killer is on the loose in the grocery store! Can anyone stop this murderous intruder?

The cast includes Elizabeth Cox, Renée Estevez, Danny Hicks, David Byrnes, Eugene Glazer, Billy Marti, Burr Steers, Craig Stark, Ted Raimi, Sam Raimi, Alvy Moore, and Bruce Campbell. Green Acres stars Alvy Moore and Tom Lester also appear, along with Three Stooges regular Emil Sitka.

Intruder arrived at the end of the 1980s slasher boom, but it marked an important early showcase for KNB EFX Group. The special effects company, founded by Robert Kurtzman, Greg Nicotero, and Howard Berger, would go on to become one of the industry’s leading names in practical makeup and gore effects, with credits that include The Walking Dead.

Grindhouse Releasing owner Bob Murawski provided the following statement:

“Scott was a longtime friend and a super-talented screenwriter and filmmaker. I’ve always wanted to do something with INTRUDER. It’s an underrated and underseen film that literally delivers the groceries. Scott’s unrated director’s cut of INTRUDER never got a theatrical release. We are proud to be partnering with Charles Band and Full Moon Features to present INTRUDER on the big screen where it belongs.”

The theatrical release begins this holiday season, with Intruder scheduled to play select arthouse theatres across the United States and Canada. Specific theatres and screening dates have not yet been announced.

Intruder is one of my all-time favorites, so I’m very glad to hear that the director’s cut is going to be getting some theatrical play soon. Are you interested in catching this one on the big screen? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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PLOT: Follows models on a photo shoot who are stalked by a doll possessed by the spirit of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

REVIEW: After the first season of Ryan Murphy’s Monster, interest in serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer seemed to hit an all-time high. I’ve never quite understood it, as it feels like we’re making a horrible person into a celebrity. So I also find it a bit difficult to be on board with a film that uses a real-life person who actually killed innocent people and makes them into Chucky 2.0. I probably shouldn’t expect such standards from a film called Jeffrey Dollmer so I suppose that’s on me.

Jeffrey Dollmer takes the story of Jeffrey Dahmer and imagines if he had a doll that his spirit possesses, and ends up going on a rampage through a bunch of models at a photo shoot. Outside of the name recognition, there’s not much reason for the Dahmer connection, as it really could have just been a generic fake killer, and probably would have worked better because of it. Given the Dahmer aspect, most of the characters are LGBTQ, including the doll itself but that element mostly feels like window dressing.

With this being an independent film, the filmmakers opt for more for the Charles Band Puppet Master approach, where it’s often just a doll being moved around by a person off-camera. He doesn’t have any overly complicated movements like Chucky or what we see in other evil doll movies. It’s all practical and doesn’t extend past what you would see in a standard puppet show. The kills are mostly just the doll being shoved into people by a puppeteer off-camera. This kind of low-budget filmmaking can be charming because there’s still passion behind it. It’s when that lack of money results in laziness that it’s offensive to the eyes (and ears).

Jeffrey Dollmer is the kind of cheap where you can sometimes hear the shift in audio quality as it switches sources. Hell, there’s a moment where a passing car nearly drowns out the dialogue. It also sounds like they’re using the onboard camera microphone at times. And then the ADR is so obvious that they don’t even make an effort to hide the lip-sync issue or have the audio match in any way. The audio even blows out during some lines, and it can be distracting. In terms of visuals, wide-angle lenses are often misused and presented in ways that make the image really warped.

The makeup FX can be surprisingly good at times, with some really fun, over-the-top practical FX. This movie loves to have bright red blood flowing during its kills. But we finally have to address the element that brings this down to unwatchable: the apparent use of AI. The fun, practical FX are so often ruined by what look to be AI enhancements that I question why they even tried to do some things practically and then went the lazy route with others. Even stranger that they usually stick to using old school puppetry for Dollmer outside of a few clearly enhanced moments at the end.

In my opinion, cheap FX made by a human will always outdo AI, so while the filmmakers haven’t confirmed it, you can judge for yourself. But, it takes away from the work that they actually did put into this. I always feel weird about reviewing movies like Jeffrey Dollmer as the job is to critique the quality, and these aren’t exactly aiming to be good. For obvious reasons, this goes into the: “Avoid At All Costs” camp.

Jeffrey Dollmer is available digitally now.

Jeffrey Dollmer Review: Chucky Doesn’t Have to Worry About This New Killer Doll Flick

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Adam Green, the filmmaker behind Hatchet and Frozen, says his completed survival thriller Ascent will never be released. The director recently revealed that the film was shot in Malta, but the production was allegedly left in financial chaos after a producer took the money and disappeared.

Our friends at Bloody Disgusting brought this story to our attention, pointing out Green’s appearance on the YouTube channel FanZcene Vids. During the conversation, Green also cleared up some confusion surrounding the project: despite its original announcement as a shark thriller, Ascent was never actually a shark movie. It was a hot air balloon thriller.

Green said,

“It was never a shark movie. But we don’t need to worry about it, because it’s never coming out. You’ll never see it. … The producers… I don’t want to name names… his name was Ryan Hamilton, he stole all the money and just disappeared. So, we actually filmed the whole thing in Malta. That was actually the same producer who f*cked everything up… he’s the one who announced it as the shark movie. He should’ve read it. It’s actually a hot air balloon movie.”

Green went on to describe the production as an incredible experience before explaining why audiences are unlikely to ever see the finished film.

“It was the craziest shoot ever, it was amazing. And then we left, got back to LA, and nobody ever got paid. They did that to four productions in one year. So they’ve been on the run. And when you’re talking about people in another country, trying to get any sort of legal justice is painful. So. Yeah. That one will never come out.”

These are Green’s allegations about the production and its producer. Bloody Disgusting notes that Hamilton was part of Simple House Films alongside Addam Bramich and Volodymyr Artemenko. The company also had another horror project, Zipline, on its slate.

What Was Adam Green’s Ascent About?

The first announcement referred to the film as a shark thriller, providing the following synopsis: A group of friends arrive in Europe for a glamorous but daring destination wedding. The fun and games turn into a nightmare when they find themselves precariously suspended above shark infested waters and in a battle for survival. Later, we saw a different synopsis that removed the reference to sharks and instead focused on the fact that the characters are stuck on a hot air balloon: a group of friends attending a destination wedding in Europe find themselves stranded on a hot air balloon 3,000 feet above the ground.

The cast assembled for the survival thriller included Inanna Sarkis (Boo 2! A Madea Halloween), Gregg Sulkin (Runaways), Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why), Paris Berelc (Hubie Halloween), and genre icon Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects).

Green was particularly excited about returning to the survival thriller genre after directing Frozen (2010), which trapped its characters on a ski lift with hungry wolves waiting below.

“I’m incredibly excited to be returning to the survival thriller genre,” Green said when the project was announced. “Ascent’s story about a recreational activity gone terribly wrong is going to play with people’s real life fears and be a total thrill ride for the audience.”

An Adam Green Survival Thriller We Won’t Get to See

It’s a frustrating outcome, especially for fans who have been waiting to see Green return to the kind of nerve-shredding survival filmmaking he delivered with Frozen. Unfortunately, based on Green’s account, Ascent is unlikely to join Frozen as another memorable entry in his filmography. The movie was filmed, the cast was assembled, and the story put its characters in an extremely precarious situation. But unless something changes, the finished film will remain unseen.

Were you looking forward to Adam Green’s Ascent? Let us know in the comments!

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Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil has officially made the jump from theatres to digital. The latest entry in the long-running horror franchise is now available to buy or rent through Fandango, giving fans the chance to bring its gruesome Raccoon City nightmare home.

On Fandango, Resident Evil (2026) is available to purchase for $24.99 or rent for $19.99. The film is also available through other digital retailers, including Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. And here’s an extra treat for fans of Cregger’s work: Fandango is offering a Zach Cregger 3-Film Collection, bundling Resident Evil with his previous films Weapons (2024) and Barbarian (2022) for $34.99.

Watch the First 10 Minutes of Resident Evil

Fandango has also debuted the first 10 minutes of Resident Evil, offering a preview of Cregger’s latest horror experience. You can watch that footage here, then head to Fandango to buy or rent the movie.

The film stars Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier whose seemingly routine delivery to Raccoon City turns into a fight for survival when a horrifying biomedical outbreak erupts around him. Rather than build its story around familiar video game characters such as Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, or Jill Valentine, Cregger and co-writer Shay Hatten created an original story set within the world of the games.

The cast also includes Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Johnno Wilson. Cregger, the filmmaker behind Barbarian and Weapons, directs.

What Did We Think of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil?

JoBlo’s Chris Bumbray gave Resident Evil a 9/10 review, praising Cregger’s decision to deliver a lean, experience-driven horror action movie rather than get bogged down in franchise mythology. Bumbray called it one of the most propulsive horror action films in recent memory, highlighting the escalating creature encounters, gruesome set pieces, and Austin Abrams’ performance as an ordinary guy forced to fight his way through an increasingly terrifying situation.

As Bumbray put it, the movie offers a fresh approach to the video game adaptation, with its resource-hoarding and dangerous encounters recreating the feeling of playing a survival horror game for the first time. You can read the full review here: Resident Evil Review: Zach Cregger Delivers a Lean, Gory Horror-Action Blast.

We also published a very different perspective from our editor Jay St G, a longtime fan of the games, who felt the movie strayed too far from what makes Resident Evil special. “This WAS NOT a Resident Evil Movie at all. Not even a hint of an expanded RE Universe. This was a Comedy Horror film with elements of Survival Horror Video Games, and some fun Resident Evil easter eggs sprinkled throughout the film, but not enough of anything that makes the franchise so great.  This movie was far too loaded with over-the-top humor, with NO ICONIC MONSTERS from the Resident Evil franchise with barely any Zombies in the film to fear, and it was an odd choice to go right into the “las plagas” from Resident Evil 4. (but not faithful to that either)” His rating: 5/10.

What Did You Think of Resident Evil?

Did Zach Cregger deliver the Resident Evil movie you wanted to see? Were you on Chris Bumbray’s side, or did you agree with the more critical response from a longtime fan of the games? Let us know in the comments!

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PLOT: A few years after the apparent destruction of Godzilla, a new monster begins terrorizing Japan.

REVIEW: I’ll admit that Godzilla Minus One took me by complete surprise when I saw it a few years ago. I’m a very casual fan of the Godzilla movies. I’ve seen the American MonsterVerse ones, which were OK, and as a child I loved the Toho movies, but I haven’t kept up with the newer ones that are coming out. But when word got out about how good Minus One was, I checked it out and found it to be one of the better blockbuster monster movies in recent years—and it killed what they’re doing in the MonsterVerse.

Godzilla Minus Zero is another slam-bang blockbuster, done on a scale that puts many American movies to shame. The Oscar-winning effects from the last film were taken to another level, with the movie introducing another classic Toho monster—Ghidorah—with action sequences shot in IMAX that are dazzling.

The film picks up right where Minus One left off. Following the first film, Dr. Noda (Hidetaka Yoshioka) is now the head of a disaster response bureau, and in literally the first scene of the film, we see a village being decimated by Ghidorah, putting him back at work to try and deal with this new threat. While the Americans have offered weapons and planes, they are refusing to provide pilots, so Noda is forced to recruit Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), the heroic former kamikaze pilot who defeated Godzilla. He’s leading a quiet life with his now-wife, Noriko (Minami Hamabe), who is still suffering from being exposed to Godzilla’s radiation, and their adopted daughter, Akiko.

The action sequences in this are pretty stunning, with the highlight being a mid-film set piece where Shikishima leads an airplane assault on Ghidorah, with the VFX, editing and score by Naoki Satō putting pretty much any American blockbuster that’s come out this year to shame. And it’s only the beginning, with some full-on monster brawls happening in the second half because—wouldn’t you know it—the presumed-dead Godzilla is back.

While movies like this can’t help but be familiar, director Takashi Yamazaki, who also wrote the script, continues to find ways to ground them, with the second film—just like the last one—relating to the scars left behind by the Second World War. What’s particularly potent is when a new scientist, Murakami (Min Tanaka), is brought in who survived Hiroshima and harbours a twisted revenge scheme towards the Americans, whom he blames for the death of his family. Yet nothing really goes the way you think it will in Yamazaki’s movie, with all of the characters fleshed out and avoiding cartoonish stereotypes. They also grow, with Shikishima no longer as shell-shocked and brooding as he was in the last film, with him more of a contented family man and confident in his near-Maverick-level flying skills. I also liked the way Noriko is brought into the action in the second half, with the physical trauma she survived in the first movie central to her growth here.

While Godzilla Minus Zero probably does have a little too much melodrama at times, with perhaps too many moments where young Akiko is wailing in distress, that’s part and parcel of what the Godzilla movies are. To lose the melodrama would be to lose the franchise’s identity and be too much like the MonsterVerse films. Godzilla Minus Zero really is a total blast, and just about as good as the last movie. Yamazaki is a real talent as far as these movies go, with him giving them new life. I hope the franchise continues with him at the helm. The stuff he’s able to pull off with a budget a fraction of what the American MonsterVerse movies get is jaw-dropping.

Godzilla Minus Zero

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