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Keri O'Shea

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Biography:

Keri is the owner and writer/editor of Warped Perspective, which covers horror and cult film, TV, art and books. She is also the co-author of Horror Out of Control: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 21st Century Horror Cinema and a recent book, Opening The Cage: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin.

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No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “‘Be careful what you wish for’ seems to be the only clear lesson in an otherwise murky, often hilarious, often horrifying piece of narrative film where you end up risking everything to gain back a fraction of what you had.” – Warped Perspective Feb 1, 2026 Full Review Grizzly Night (2026) EDIT “How is director Burke Doeren’s debut feature film meant to be read? – Horror, exploitation, or plausible drama? The answer to that question is a while in coming, and when it’s finally clear, it comes with several issues.” – Warped Perspective Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Infirmary (2026) EDIT “There's as much human drama in Infirmary as anything more overtly horror-related, but the two are definitely wedded together.” – Warped Perspective Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Relentless (2025) C- EDIT “If nothing else, it’s crystal clear that Relentless takes place in a deeply-fractured America, somewhere riven with the pain of being anonymous.” – Warped Perspective Jan 10, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% EDIT “The Housemaid paints in very broad strokes...however, if you wait it out, it gets into a much more horror-adjacent, nasty phase which feels like a decent payoff for all the waiting around and second-guessing where it's all going. ” – Warped Perspective Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Hell of a Summer (2023) 49% EDIT “Perhaps the problem here is that Hell of a Summer is more of an homage to homages, than it is a fresh, bold slasher flick. ” – Warped Perspective Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% EDIT “If things feel gallingly defeatist in key aspects – the ultimate sunk cost fallacy – then regardless, Together‘s detail-heavy body horror does its best work when it focuses on the minutiae.” – Warped Perspective Dec 14, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% EDIT “The Monkey is far more pleased with itself than it has any business being.” – Warped Perspective Dec 7, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 67% EDIT “It has its diverting moments, but this isn’t a great entrant into the vampire genre and on the whole it’s far more Argento than Coppola, which in this case is not intended as a compliment.” – Warped Perspective Nov 30, 2025 Full Review Haunters of the Silence (2025) C EDIT “It’s a film which does what it sets out to do very smoothly and with some undeniable ingenuity. It’s more immersive than informative, and will be best admired by viewers who are okay with that.” – Warped Perspective Nov 22, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% B- EDIT “The film cycles through pursuit, paranoia and violence in turns, leading into a finale which feels like a good payoff even if – and this is a key criticism – it can’t quite trust itself to just tell the original tale.” – Warped Perspective Nov 21, 2025 Full Review The Invisible Half (2025) C+ EDIT “The fact that The Invisible Half took six years to make perhaps at least partly accounts for some of its more disjointed qualities, but Nishiyama’s raft of ideas for tech horror hold fast.” – Warped Perspective Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “Reflection in a Dead Diamond is another sumptuous but tedious melee of femmes fatales, funky macros and might-be symbolism.” – Warped Perspective Nov 16, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% EDIT “Do you know what is great? The sharks here are…just sharks. They’re not genetically-modified sharks, surprise megalodons or inexplicably smart, vengeful sharks.” – Warped Perspective Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “Good Boy is a quietly creepy tale with a genuinely involving and emotionally affecting central premise, and it’s that which really sets it apart from similar films, particularly by the end.” – Warped Perspective Nov 9, 2025 Full Review Confession (2024) EDIT “The film’s economical runtime (just over seventy minutes) excuses some of the film’s weaker elements, keeping things taught and focused enough to shine.” – Warped Perspective Nov 2, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Frankenstein allows its key elements the time and space to flourish, but it stays focused on the tale itself, offering up a sumptuous, assured piece of period Gothic, aware of its place in a long legacy, but equally clear on what it wants to achieve.” – Warped Perspective Nov 1, 2025 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% EDIT “It’s imaginative, provocative stuff, and if it eschews narrative conventions just too much for some audiences, then so be it.” – Warped Perspective Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Deathstalker (2025) 86% EDIT “ It doesn’t take itself too seriously, because if it did, it would dash the fairly jovial, self-deprecating atmosphere which is there in spades from the very beginning. ” – Warped Perspective Oct 29, 2025 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 87% EDIT “We Bury the Dead is a well-paced progression through personal and international disasters, carefully piecing together just a couple of the sad stories which you just know are here, against a backdrop of something still barely understood and dreadful.” – Warped Perspective Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Head Like a Hole (2024) EDIT “Things get steadily darker and more absurd as the film progresses, but there’s a wealth of sensitivity in amongst the madness here, offering a lowkey horror/sci-fi with a snappy existential twist.” – Warped Perspective Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Frankie, Maniac Woman (2025) EDIT “This isn't a film which paints in fine strokes, but then nor is the world it's critiquing (at least in its incarnation here), so its big, bold, visually-ambitious display has an irreverent charm of its own.” – Warped Perspective Oct 12, 2025 Full Review The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 96% EDIT “The film feels like a Brothers Grimm (or Charles Perrault) mash-up with The Substance, this time for younger women, all reflected in the distorting mirror of a well-known fairy story – sometimes inventively, but sometimes very faithfully. ” – Warped Perspective Oct 5, 2025 Full Review Scurry (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Fans willing to overlook a few things for the sake of a new film in their genre of choice will find enough here to entertain them, even if it’s unlikely to convert new viewers to the joys of subterranean sci-fi all by itself.” – Warped Perspective Oct 4, 2025 Full Review The Severed Sun (2024) 78% EDIT “The narrative gaps provide space for interpretation; the light touch itself feels very purposeful, allowing the story to develop and meander into interesting places. All told, The Severed Sun is a beautiful, raw, singular piece of cinema.” – Warped Perspective Oct 3, 2025 Full Review
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