andrew rivas

A ★★ review of Heretic (2024) there’s a really cool shot near the end that belongs in a better movie

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 18
HERETIC (2024) ★★.
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your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

Steam Community :: ANDREW :: Review for No, I'm not a Human NO, I"M NOT A HUMAN has: incredibly unsettling art, a weird as hell sense of humor, the most ominous knocking i've ever heard, a cat that you can pet, a bunch of alternate endings, and more close-ups ...

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 17
NO, I'M NOT HUMAN (2025). 👍
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A ★★★★ review of The Monkey (2025) love the look of the movie and there’s def some fun final destination vibes going on here. story didn’t really click with me but nothing egregious

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 16
THE MONKEY (2025) ★★★★.
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A ★★★ review of Together (2025) my first thought was “the substance for straight people” and then i came here and saw 1000 people already made the same joke so i guess i’m basic

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 15
TOGETHER (2025) ★★★.
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Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

[REC]
ALIEN
SCREAM
THE THING

A ★ review of M3GAN 2.0 (2025) it's WILD that the message of this movie, spelled out in narration at the end because the movie thinks you’re a dumb piece of shit, is "we should be nice to AI, so that when it inevitably gains sentie...

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 14
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) ★.
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mr bones sat on my TBR for a minute before i read it, so i didn't make the connection right away, but halfway through i remembered you ran an indie press and was like "how much of this is based on experience" loll

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

loved the story dude. my only complaint is that the bean knight took all of my beans. any word on when i'll be getting those beans back

as long as you keep putting out bangers i'll keep reading them 🖤

at first i was frustrated with the final line--then something clicked, and i had to reread the story, and it ended up being one of my favorites in the collection. writing this made me want to read it again lmao its v good!!

Steam Community :: ANDREW :: Review for Slitterhead i tried really hard to give this one a chance. unfortunately i can't recommend it. its biggest sin is that it's boring. i know it's not billed as a horror game but the creepiest thing in the entire ga...

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 13
SLITTERHEAD (2024). 👎
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BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Three (softcover; includes eBook) The Most Important Meal of the Day…is Weird. Why so glum, friend? Are you feeling fatigued? Logy? Knackered? Do you require sustenance? A boost of energy to reinvigorate your existence? We have good n...

Favorite Stories: “The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault),” by @kaiewrites.bsky.social; “Knight Rumors,” by @matthewmitchell.bsky.social, “Plastic-eating Fungus Caused Doomsday[2][3],” by @slashnburnett.bsky.social.

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In the intro, @alexwoodroe.com says they’ve “fully embraced the word cult at this point;” it’s warranted. I will buy anything TP puts out because every release is weirder than the last, every printed book is a work of art, and it’s all weird as fuck. Join the Cult; embrace the weird.

The cover art (by @mattblairstone.bsky.social) is a lot of fun; the “weird one-off cereal promotion” vibes are immaculate and lead to a bunch of fun flavor text on the back. “Possible side effects include: inclement leftism; recurring heel turns; erotic heresy; gothtolerance; big ol’ insect legs…”

Every story hits and nothing is what you would expect. The best part of BRAVE NEW WEIRD is you truly never know what you’re going to get. Reading BNW is like walking into a Michelin three star restaurant, saying “surprise me,” and then eating the best meal you never knew you wanted. Every time.

BRAVE NEW WEIRD, VOL. 3 (pub. by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social)

BNW V.3 is: a story that repeatedly tells you what it is not; trafficking your own organs to prove that you’re human; finding love in the backrooms; wikipedia editors bickering over apocalyptic semantics; sunflakes & the myth of snow—

excerpt from my recent short story, LIVE EVERY DAY, up at @southwestreview.bsky.social southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

Happy Indigenous People's Day

A ★ review of Jennifer's Body (2009) i saw someone on my feed say this was "surprisingly fun" and "good for what it is" and to that i say: fuck you. show yourself. you are wrong

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 12
JENNIFER'S BODY (2009) ★.
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A ★★★ review of Until Dawn (2025) fails as an adaptation, but kudos for a conceit that enables you to kill the same characters a bunch of times in different genres. fun but drags near the end. could have used a lot more stormare.

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 11
UNTIL DAWN (2025) ★★★.
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A ★★★★★ review of Companion (2025) the entire cast does great but harvey guillen rules especially hard. wasn’t expecting it to be this funny.

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 10
COMPANION (2025) ★★★★★.
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A ★★★ review of Final Destination 3 (2006) surprise mary elizabeth winstead is the best part of this movie. this feels like when a franchise should be going much heavier and much stupider with its lore and it’s more of the same. like where is ...

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 9
FINAL DESTINATION 3 (2006) ★★★.
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A ★★★ review of The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) the best part of the conjuring franchise is that my friends who don't like horror love it, so i get to watch scary movies with my friends

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 8
OPUS (2025) ★★★.
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A ★★★½ review of Opus (2025) i watched this because ayo edebiri is in it, and i liked ayo edebiri in it

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 7
OPUS (2025) ★★★1/2.
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I don't know that much about you besides your work with destiny, but any time you posted "hey, i worked on this!" it was always far and away the best that destiny had to offer. heresy & the drifter/eris storyline was peak destiny, on par with TFS and easily the best since then

A ★★★ review of Creep (2017) loved it when mark duplass jumpscared himself

SHOCKTOBER (YEAR 4) NIGHT 6
CREEP (2017) ★★★.
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real talk can't express how excited i am to see danika on stream in the year of our lord 2025