Ending, Symbols & The Grove — Late Night with the Devil Explained
Man, this film stays with you. I watched Late Night with the Devil expecting a solid found footage horror. What I got instead was a puzzle — one that kept revealing new layers the more I thought about it. The ending alone sent me down a two-hour research spiral. The Grove. The deal. Madeleine hidden in the frames. The skeleton. What Jack actually stabbed. This article is everything I found. The fu...[Read More]
Movies Like Backrooms (2026): 11 Films That Share Its Liminal Dread
I have a theory about liminal horror. The reason it works — the reason a photograph of an empty corridor can make your skin crawl in a way that a masked killer simply can’t — is that it doesn’t invent a threat. It reveals one that was already there. The wrongness of a space you can’t escape. The particular dread of a place that looks almost right but isn’t. The fluorescent ...[Read More]
Backrooms (2026): A24’s Most Unsettling Horror Film of the Year
Some horror films arrive with decades of mythology behind them. Backrooms arrives with something more modern and arguably more potent: an internet legend, a teenager with a camera, and 190 million YouTube views. Directed by Kane Parsons — known online as Kane Pixels, who was just 16 when he began uploading his Backrooms found footage series in January 2022 — and produced by A24 alongside James Wan...[Read More]
In Darkness We Fall / La Cueva (2014): Almost Worth Your Time
Spain has a strong track record in horror. REC is a masterclass. The Others is a classic. Even Rec 2 holds up. So when I came across a Spanish found footage film set on the sun-drenched island of Formentera and filmed entirely in a real cave system, I was genuinely excited. A cave. Real locations. Spanish horror DNA. What could go wrong? In Darkness We Fall — original title La Cueva, directed by A...[Read More]
Dashcam (2021): Rob Savage’s Follow-Up to Host — And Why It Doesn’t Quite Land
After Host — one of the most efficient horror films of the decade — Rob Savage had considerable goodwill to spend on his next project. Dashcam spends it quickly, and not always wisely. That’s not to say it’s a bad film. It’s a film with a specific vision, a deliberate provocation at its centre, and enough genuine scares to justify its 77-minute runtime. But where Host was lean, p...[Read More]