On January 22, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (or AMPAS) announced its nominees for the 2026 Oscars last week. Below, you will find the complete list, with the titles that Hammer to Nail covered in some way […]

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There has been no shortage of artistically strong films in 2025, which is why the critics at Hammer to Nail offer up such a great variety of titles in their respective Top 10 lists of the year. Our choices run […]

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File this one under books that kill [see The Babadook, the tome in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, or certain limited editions of Stephen King’s Firestarter apparently bound in asbestos (went down a rabbit hole this morning)].  Danny […]

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A modern retelling of Frankenstein, birth/rebirth [which recently debuted on Shudder] finds director Laura Moss toying with the life of the six-year-old daughter of Celie (Judy Reyes), a nurse who works in the same hospital as post-mortem pathologist Rose (Marin […]

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Shadows in the night, chiaroscuro pools of mystery, preying on the innocent. Footsteps resonate, then disappear, made even more frightening by what we imagine caused their sudden muffling. Someone – or something – is stalking our waking nightmares

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