After quite an impressive year that saw several horror movies make our overall Best of 2025 list, there’s been some concern amongst our staff about the quality of scares coming our way on the 2026 movie release calendar. When it comes to Psycho Killer, which hit theaters on February 20, those worries might be warranted, as critics screened the serial killer thriller, and they are not holding back their thoughts on this “vapid, generic form of hell.”
Psycho Killer stars Georgina Campbell as a police officer bent on taking down the “Satanic Slasher” (James Preston Rogers) after witnessing the murder of her state trooper husband at the hands of the serial killer. Eric Goldman of MovieWeb gives it a “Skippable” 2 out of 5, writing that the lack of intensity is especially disappointing given the fact that the script comes from Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of Se7en, which is one of the best horror movies of all time. Goldman says:
