The Cherry Hill Chainsaw Massacre

As of 2024, only three motion pictures in history have walked away with the "Big Five" (otherwise known as the "grand slam") awards at the Academy Awards. Those five major accomplishments pertain to Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted). The recipients of said achievement are It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and most stunningly of all, Jonathan Demme's 1991 psychological slasher masterpiece, The Silence of the Lambs . It's no secret the Academy holds a fairly undisguised bias against the horror genre, as evidenced by the myriad genre entries of the 21st century that have failed to garner either more than a meager technical nomination ( A Quiet Place - Sound Editing,  The Lighthouse - Cinematography) or any at all. The only film that received its fair share of nominations, including the only win of the century thus far, is Jordan Peele's groundbreaking soci...

Tell me if this sounds like a story you've been told countless times throughout the history of horror: a young, antisocial, emotionally stunted individual (typically a woman) becomes so consumed by their devotion to God and desperation to serve Him on their self-destructive path to personal transformation that their sanity begins to slip and ultimately devolves into pure, delusion-driven madness. However, what if the woman in this particular case were not always like that? That they were once a happy, vibrant, sociable human being like anybody else, hanging out at bars with friends, hooking up with random men who would give them the slightest look of interest. And all it took to transform them into a volatile, complete stranger to their own self was a single instance of trauma in the workplace. A trauma so unforgettable, so unforgivable, so drenched in blood, that they could never dream of being the normal person they once were. Such is the subtly subversive premise unearthed in Ro...