Surgeons of Horror

06/11/2025

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Special Event Screenings
In Australian Cinemas From November 20

In Cinemas November 20

06/11/2025

When prestige meets the paranormal, the results can be haunting for all the wrong reasons. An American Haunting (2005) brings Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek together for a 19th-century ghost story inspired by real events — but not even their gravitas can save this one from its own spectral clichés.
A film possessed by its ambition, yet haunted by mediocrity.

“Possession knows no bounds,” the tagline warns, though sadly, the film’s imagination does. An American Haunting attempts to bring the notorious Bell Witch legend to cinematic life, boasting the ac…

04/11/2025

Is FF horror dead?

02/11/2025

40 years on, A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge remains one of horror’s most fascinating contradictions — a sequel that buried its q***rness under denial, only to be reclaimed decades later as a milestone in q***r horror cinema.

Director Jack Sholder’s 1985 film may have divided fans, but its power now lies in what it accidentally revealed — the anxieties, desires, and fears lurking beneath suburban America’s perfect surface.

Read Saul Muerte’s full retrospective — a look at Freddy’s most controversial outing, and the legacy it left in its wake.

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40 Years Later, Freddy’s Most Controversial Outing Finds Its Voice When A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge was released in 1985, it was branded the misfit of the franchise — the seq…

31/10/2025

A Super 8 camera. A cabin in the woods. A group of friends covered in fake blood.
Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) redefined what horror could be — raw, chaotic, and gloriously unhinged.
Read the full retrospective on Surgeons of Horror.

31/10/2025

Before The Conjuring and Insidious turned haunted houses into Hollywood properties, Sam Raimi turned a cabin into a war zone. The Evil Dead (1981) remains one of the most important horror films ever made — not for what it had, but for what it lacked.
No budget. No safety. No backup. Just guts, gore, and unrelenting creativity.
Read our retrospective feature: “The Birth of DIY Carnage” — live now on Surgeons of Horror.

There’s something unholy about watching The Evil Dead in 2025 — not because of its gore (though the film still bleeds like a fresh wound), but because it reminds us how much horror has changed… and…

30/10/2025

"Some monsters crawl back from the grave — others crawl from the sewer.
Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger (2025) takes Troma’s mutant antihero and drenches him in radioactive pathos. Peter Dinklage leads a grotesque yet strangely tender reboot that finds empathy in the filth."
Saul Muerte
💀 The Return of Filth and Fury — read our full review on Surgeons of Horror.

Some monsters crawl back from the grave; others crawl from the sewer.With The Toxic Avenger (2025), writer-director Macon Blair has achieved something bordering on alchemy — turning the sludge of 1…

29/10/2025

Hell House LLC: Lineage — The Ghost of a Franchise Haunted by Its Own Myth
"Hell House LLC: Lineage closes the curtain with a sigh rather than a scream. It is a ghost story about the exhaustion of storytelling itself — beautiful in fragments, hollow in ex*****on. The Abaddon Hotel may still echo, but the fear has long since checked out."
Saul Muerte

Across five films, Stephen Cognetti has quietly built one of the more curious mythologies in modern horror — a patchwork of haunted architecture, cursed tapes, and cyclical tragedy orbiting the gho…

28/10/2025

Saw II — The Trap That Tightened a Franchise
"A deftly executed sequel that turned a clever horror film into a cultural phenomenon, Saw II expanded the lore and gave the Jigsaw Killer his voice. Darren Lynn Bousman’s confident direction, Tobin Bell’s chilling gravitas, and Shawnee Smith’s tortured return all combine to make this one of the series’ strongest entries. It’s the moment the Saw machine really started to hum — and slice."
Saul Muerte

28/10/2025

Saw II — The Trap That Tightened a Franchise
"A deftly executed sequel that turned a clever horror film into a cultural phenomenon, Saw II expanded the lore and gave the Jigsaw Killer his voice. Darren Lynn Bousman’s confident direction, Tobin Bell’s chilling gravitas, and Shawnee Smith’s tortured return all combine to make this one of the series’ strongest entries. It’s the moment the Saw machine really started to hum — and slice."
Saul Muerte

When Saw II was released in 2005, it had an impossible task: to follow the breakout success of James Wan’s original and prove that Saw wasn’t just another low-budget horror one-off, but the beginni…

28/10/2025

Zach Cregger detonates expectations with Weapons (2025) — a hypnotic, fractured descent into grief, complicity, and the quiet rot beneath America’s perfect lawns.
If Barbarian was about what lurked under the house, Weapons is about what festers inside the people who built it.
🔪 Read our full editorial on Surgeons of Horror: “Buried Truths & Walking Away: Why Weapons (2025) Matters.”

From the sinewy shock of Barbarian, Zach Cregger already marked himself as a horror director to watch. With Weapons, he doesn’t just advance — he detonates expectations. This second feature is not …

27/10/2025

Vampire in Brooklyn — When Fangs Meet Farce and Nobody Wins
"A muddled mix of horror and humour, Vampire in Brooklyn never finds its bite. Caught between Murphy’s comedic impulses and Craven’s horror pedigree, it flails when it should fly. Angela Bassett alone keeps the film from turning to dust, but even she can’t save this lifeless experiment from the shadows."
Saul Muerte