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Erik Piepenburg

Erik Piepenburg's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “This is assured horror filmmaking. Heartbreaking too..” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Strange Harvest (2024) 92% EDIT “The film is naturalistic enough to be convincing and sick enough to be disturbing, even if the acting falls scattershot on the persuasiveness scale.” – New York Times Aug 7, 2025 Full Review The Home (2025) 29% EDIT “Davidson displays a terrific knack for horror dramedy, disarmingly playing an Everyman navigating a deranged world. ” – New York Times Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Clown in a Cornfield (2025) 74% EDIT “A lackluster horror movie gets points if the leading villain is a real bugaboo. But the Frendos, alas, look like poser versions of Pennywise, Art the Clown and other, scarier horror bozos.” – New York Times May 9, 2025 Full Review Until Dawn (2025) 52% EDIT “Watching someone play a video game that they never let you play is a singular kind of boring. A similar “why am I here?” dullness arrives early and stays late in Until Dawn.” – New York Times Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 78% EDIT “A horror rom-com can be delightful, but this film would put even Cupid in a bad mood.” – New York Times Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Terrifier 3 (2024) 78% EDIT “Nobody is pushing horror boundaries quite like the writer-director Damien Leone. ” – New York Times Oct 11, 2024 Full Review Crumb Catcher (2023) 87% EDIT “An aspirationally farcical home invasion thriller that never fully thrills, despite a game cast that does its darnedest to liven up an unfocused script that’s fashioned from genre odds and ends.” – New York Times Jul 18, 2024 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) 21% EDIT “The hapless script — written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland and based on the original — offers nothing fresh in a tiring 91 minutes, and nothing daring to justify a new “Strangers” film, let alone a new series...” – New York Times May 16, 2024 Full Review The People's Joker (2022) 96% EDIT “Within the film’s confessional chaos lives the spirit of Vaginal Davis, Ryan Trecartin and other maverick queer filmmakers who toyed with genre to torpedo gender. It’s reviving to see an artist take up the cause.” – New York Times Apr 4, 2024 Full Review When Evil Lurks (2023) 96% EDIT “This is a dark and timely parable about what happens when trust — among community members, within families, between a government and its people — disintegrates.” – New York Times Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Something You Said Last Night (2022) 93% EDIT “One can only watch Renata, and this film, do so little for so long before yearning for more than naturalism and tenderness to drive the slice-of-life story.” – New York Times Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Satanic Hispanics (2022) 89% EDIT “This anthology of films from five Latino filmmakers sadly doesn’t live up to the promise of devilish short-form horror that its title foreshadows.” – New York Times Sep 14, 2023 Full Review Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022) 88% EDIT “A less sentimental, wish-fulfilling approach to Mexican American identity, gay self-discovery and Reagan-era Texas will wait for another day. Until then, fans of “Heartstopper”-style slow-burn romance will eat up this tender film’s subtle charms.” – New York Times Sep 7, 2023 Full Review Sublime (2022) 83% EDIT “Biasin’s script plods as it relies on repetitive band rehearsals and inert conversations to pad a story that only mildly explores young gay desire — like “Heartstopper” but with less charm and fewer stakes.” – New York Times Jun 20, 2023 Full Review Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022) 89% EDIT “It’s really more of an annotated oral history of Englund’s entire, extensive IMDb page — almost film by film, in chronological order, for more than two hours. It’s exhausting.” – New York Times Jun 7, 2023 Full Review Living with Chucky (2022) 74% EDIT “Feels like hagiographic DVD featurettes meanderingly stitched together.” – New York Times Apr 4, 2023 Full Review
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