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The Home (2025): A Muddled Asylum Thriller That Finds Catharsis in Chaos "A thriller that forgets to explain its own rules—but ends with a gloriously messy revenge splatter." — 2.5/5 Stars The Home (2025) review: James DeMonaco—director of The Purge —trades social satire for psychological horror in this muddled asylum thriller that stumbles through its narrative but lands hard in its final act. Set in a decaying psychiatric facility, it follows Max (Pete Davidson), a lost young man who takes a job as an orderly and quickly finds himself drowning in conspiracies, gaslighting, and escalating violence. I went in with low expectations—and honestly, I still had fun. Not because it’s coherent, but because it commits so fully to its own unraveling. That said, it fails to recapture the thematic clarity or cultural punch that made The Purge franchise resonate. If you’re looking for sharper horror thi...

  Bring Her Back (2025) – A Harrowing Descent Into Grief and the Occult With Bring Her Back , Australian siblings Danny and Michael Philippou—fresh off their breakout hit Talk to Me —deliver a sophomore feature that’s less a ghost story and more a full-body immersion into maternal grief turned monstrous. Clocking in at a lean 104 minutes, Bring Her Back wastes no time plunging its audience into emotional and visceral chaos. The story centers on Andy (Billy Barratt) and his visually impaired stepsister Piper (Sora Wong), orphaned after their father’s death and placed in the care of Laura (Sally Hawkins), a foster mother whose warmth quickly curdles into something cultish and cruel. What begins as a tale of fractured family dynamics soon spirals into a grotesque resurrection ritual involving preserved corpses, demonic possession, and a mute foster boy named Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips) whose physi...