Matt Donato
Matt Donato is a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic who stays up too late typing words for What To Watch, IGN, Paste, Bloody Disgusting, Fangoria and countless other publications. He is a member of Critics Choice and co-hosts a weekly livestream with Perri Nemiroff called the Merri Hour. You probably shouldn't feed him after midnight, just to be safe.
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This Christmas, Shudder is stuffing your stockings with A Creepshow Holiday Special. Greg Nicotero writes and directs “Shapeshifters Anonymous,” reportedly based on a short story by J.A. Konrath.

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Adam Mason’s ‘Songbird’ is a COVID-crisis imagining that’s more romantic thriller than containment chaos, albeit not that proficient at either.”

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Adam Egypt Mortimer's 'Archenemy' is an anti-Marvel movie that pops with sorrow and regret, but feels incomplete or slight as a hero's mortal reboot.

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Tate Steinsiek’s 'Castle Freak' is an aesthetically unappealing remake that relies too heavily on bare breasts and bonkers storytelling motivations without fluid conceptualizations.

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The deaths are gratifying, the humor bites back, and horror wits are sharp as daggers in Christopher Landon’s Freaky . To quote Die Antwoord, “I fink u freeky and I like you a lot.”

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Justin G. Dyck's 'Anything for Jackson' proves that summoning the undead is anything but a young persons' game.

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What if 'The ABCs Of Death' spun-off a holiday special? That’s 'Deathcember,' a Christmas horror anthology that acknowledges Ant Timpson and Tim League for inspiring this December genre disaster.

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There's a lot on Shudder that you won't find anywhere else.

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Ben Falcone’s 'Superintelligence' is a disappointing rom-com about living life like artificial intelligence is about to eradicate existence as we know it.

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Chad Faust's 'Girl' pits daughter against father in this bloodline brawl that only gets more intricate and twisted by the scene.

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Kazuya Shiraishi's 'The Blood Of Wolves,' now streaming on Shudder, draws all the right comparisons to movies like 'Infernal Affairs' and 'The Departed.'

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Since we're all doing the responsible thing and avoiding mass gatherings this November (ahem), why not have a 'Bob's Burgers' Thanksgiving marathon?

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Nicholas Santos' 'It Cuts Deep' is about a romantic tug-of-war during the holidays, when an old friend threatens to steal another's lover.

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Eshom and Ian Nelms' 'Fatman' imagines a world where Santa is forced to accept a government contract to keep his workshop from closing, at the same time an assassin is hired to kill "The Fatman" for giving a brat coal for Christmas.

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Yoon Een-Kyoung’s 'Lingering' brings two siblings together by first trying to tear them apart in a haunted hotel.

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Joe Marcantonio's 'Kindred' ponders the worth of an expecting mother through the lens of horror cinema by forcibly removing free will.

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The pull-quote description for Alastair Orr's Triggered is Saw meets Lord Of The Flies meets Battle Royale. Sounds rad, right?

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Bartosz M. Kowalski's 'Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight' takes the same slasher architecture you've seen a million times over, and slaps on a fresh coat of international paint.

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Remi Weekes’ 'His House' is a triumph of terror that's tethered to the experiences of those seeking asylum and the hellishness they endure.

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Jacob Chase’s 'Come Play' unleashes a monster from behind your device screens, one that's always watching when we think we're alone.

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Timo Tjahjanto's 'May the Devil Take You Too' summons almighty evil once more, this time in an orphanage where the kids weren't alright.

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The first Norwegian Netflix production, Jarand Herdal's Cadaver, is performative class warfare in the key of The Platform or Cannibal Club.

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Rachel Talalay’s 'A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting' introduces horror themes without petrifying younger audiences.
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