Wild, weird, and overflowing in rich ideas, The Bone Temple is a deliciously nasty soliloquy of birth, death, and resurrection that begins like some tragically austere Puccini operetta only to climax with death metal majesty like it’s the most raucous Iron Maiden concert ever staged.

Primate remains a top-notch slice of animalistic terror about a peaceful creature transformed into an unkillable monster. If that sounds like fun, get your tickets right away.

This Silent Night, Deadly Night remake is a nicely naughty jolt of blood-soaked holiday horror worth unwrapping.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 offers up pretty much the same gateway horror delights that its predecessor did, and I don’t have any problem with that whatsoever.

Let the hunt begin.

This may be the end of the world, but nothing about it made me feel fine. I found Bugonia to be an unrelentingly miserable journey into pessimistic darkness, its viscerally sardonic malice more than I could bear.

Queens of the Dead travels into a night of zombie terror and finds a reason to believe that humankind can make a better world that everyone can live in together, no matter their differences before the undead walked among them.

Black Phone 2 calls viewers to attention with rigidly frigid authority, and it is only through togetherness, compassion, courage, and communal fortitude that individual humanity is discovered, forgiveness granted, and hope for a better tomorrow restored.

Beast of War is a gut-wrenching rollercoaster ride of survival and suspense.