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Josh Korngut

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Josh Korngut is a writer, editor, and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. He's also the managing editor of Dread Central, with additional bylines at Exclaim! Magazine, CBC Life, Pride, and Paste. Check out his popular podcast, ‘Development Hell,’ where he unearths cancelled horror movies, and say hi to him on social media via @joshkorngut.

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The Monkey (2025) 78% 4/5 “An existential and gut-drenched horror-comedy that’s unafraid to spotlight the utter insignificance (and sometimes joyful) experience of life.” – Dread Central Feb 22, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 81% 3/5 “It's a fresh and entertaining twist on the genre that could pave the way for more horror-romantic comedies in the future.” – Dread Central Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Didn't Die (2025) 63% 1.5/5 “The genre influences in 'Didn't Die' are painfully surface-level, and it never breaks any new ground with its well-worn tropes of zombies and podcasting. ” – Dread Central Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Touch Me (2025) 90% 3.5/5 “‘Touch Me’ is a compelling exploration of millennial anxiety through a bizarre blend of sci-fi pop existentialism. ” – Dread Central Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Dead Lover (2025) 76% 4/5 “Grace Glowicki’s ‘Dead Lover’ is a scrappy and transgressive unearthing of the fine line between beauty and the grotesque. It's the punk kid sibling to recent Gothic revivals like 'Nosferatu' and 'Poor Things.'” – Dread Central Jan 25, 2025 Full Review The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 96% 4/5 “‘The Ugly Stepsister’ serves up Sam Raimi-levels of grotesque mayhem next to its sharply macabre critique of women's brutal beauty standards. ” – Dread Central Jan 24, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% 4/5 “Robert Eggers delivers his gothic magnum opus with Nosferatu, an ornate, black-rose snow globe that, once shaken, is showered with macabre madness.” – Dread Central Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 9/10 “Sean Baker conjures his masterpiece within the wholesome chaos of 'Anora.' , ” – Exclaim! Oct 26, 2024 Full Review Smile 2 (2024) 86% 4/5 “‘Smile 2’ is a fun, mean, and maddeningly inventive sequel that manages to outshine the original with bigger and bolder swings. ” – Dread Central Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Terrifier 3 (2024) 78% 7/10 “'Terrifier 3' cements the franchise and its mischievous killer clown as both organic legends of the genre and authentically shocking water cooler fodder for mainstream audiences.” – Exclaim! Oct 12, 2024 Full Review Salem's Lot (2024) 46% 2/5 “Despite its occasional scares and striking style, this adaptation lacks any of the terror or emotional depth of its Stephen King source material.” – Dread Central Sep 26, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% 5/5 “A putrid and nauseating instant classic, Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ has emerged as the best and most important horror movie of 2024. ” – Dread Central Sep 19, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 91% 3.5/5 “‘Heretic’ is a surprisingly intense chamber piece with three excellent performances that help to lift it high above its escape-room-horror contemporaries.” – Dread Central Sep 12, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% 3.5/5 “While this legacy sequel squanders several side plots, its heart is always in the right place: on the floor, in a pool of unidentifiable goop.” – Dread Central Sep 8, 2024 Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 59% 4/5 “Amy Adams goes full beast mode in Heller's honest depiction of the pain and power of motherhood.” – Dread Central Sep 8, 2024 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 86% 4/5 “Mike Flanagan continues to showcase why he’s uniquely capable of staging Stephen King at his most unadaptable with this lovely and heartbreaking rendition of ‘The Life of Chuck.’” – Dread Central Sep 7, 2024 Full Review Rita (2024) 89% 4/5 “Bustamante has produced a necessary and outstanding work of dark fantasy. ” – Dread Central Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Hell Hole (2024) 84% 3.5/5 “The parasitical body horrors of ‘Hell Hole’ read like a punk kid’s frostbitten love letter to John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing.’” – Dread Central Aug 10, 2024 Full Review Kryptic (2024) 67% 6/10 “It's a pleasure to witness — especially for gorehounds.” – Exclaim! Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Darkest Miriam (2024) 85% 6/10 “A somewhat fresh and strange character study worth watching for audiences with the right threshold for arthouse vagueness.” – Exclaim! Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Witchboard (2024) 100% 4/5 “Chuck Russell’s ‘Witchboard’ is a welcome and genuine throwback to the practical-effects-driven horror movies of the late ’90s, like ‘Wishmaster’ and ‘The Relic,’ ‘Hellraiser: Bloodline.’” – Dread Central Jul 27, 2024 Full Review The Vourdalak (2023) 96% 4/5 “Adrien Beau’s ‘The Vourdalak’ takes on the homecoming of inherited trauma with an unsettling blend of uncanny grotesqueness and pastoral charm. ” – Dread Central Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Inside Out 2 (2024) 91% 8/10 “Inside Out 2 fulfills the promise of getting to the root of who we are.” – Exclaim! Jun 19, 2024 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) 21% 3/10 “Dull, dumb and completely disconnected from what makes this series a good time” – Exclaim! May 16, 2024 Full Review Abigail (2024) 83% 7/10 “It might not always make total sense, but it's a fun-as-hell dark ride.” – Exclaim! May 9, 2024 Full Review
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