Action horror arms the victims and lets the monster earn it. This tag collects reviews of films that run horror at action tempo: set pieces with teeth, and dread that shoots back.
Action HorrorJune 6, 2026
The Underworld films turned the vampire into a leather-clad action hero across five entries. As a whole it is more than the sum of its uneven parts.
1990s
1980sMarch 20, 2026
The film is thrilling on its surface and interesting underneath, which is rarer in the action genre than the genre's reputation suggests. This is not a film that accidentally achieved something.
1980sMarch 20, 2026
Aliens earns its 8 by doing the one thing sequel filmmaking almost never manages: it doesn't compete with the original. Ridley Scott's Alien is a horror film about isolation and violation, one creature, confined space, systematic elimination of everything between…
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