Matt Donato
SlashFilm | Bloody Disgusting | FANGORIA | IGN | AV Club | Many more outlets | Co-Host: @certifiedforgot.bsky.social | Critics Choice Member | 🍅 Approved
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- Finally time for THE STRANGERS - CHAPTER 3 and then I’m free of this godawful trilogy. At least 3 can’t be as bad as the last one. It just ... can’t be. Right?
- Embargo doesn’t break until after the first screenings start, that’s how you know it’s good.
- Here's a fun one from #Sundance for @bloody-disgusting.com. I sat down with @conanthecontrarian.bsky.social and James Wan to reminisce about SAW's fateful festival premiere. We talked about disrupting the horror genre, a particularly scathing review, the franchise continuing without them, and more!
- Had a lovely night of podcasting with @monagle.bsky.social and @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social about possessed Nazi boats and fighting fascism. Didn’t expect our DEATH SHIP episode to crack open such a weighty convo, and that’s why I love our lil podcast @certifiedforgot.bsky.social.
- Dropped a podcast somewhere between coming home from #Sundance and immediately moving across LA! I haven’t even shared all my reviews yet (finally catching up), but if you wanna hear my take on the entire Midnight slate…
- In this week's edition of the podcast, @donatobomb.bsky.social gives us a full rundown of the horror films at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
- The tattoo gods were smiling on me today while moving. Only scratched my leg on a single box, and the scratch stopped RIGHT before the ink. Ignore the tattoo soup. Still have Second Skin on!
- When you’re trying to move but can’t stop finding MARTY SUPREME ping pong balls.
- I did some journalisming at Sundance! Was a pleasure to chat with James Wan and Leigh Whannell about all things SAW. Full interview coming, but here’s a neat little breakout.
- EXCLUSIVE: James Wan & Leigh Whannell tell Bloody Disgusting that Jigsaw will be back in the next SAW movie. "We’re not going to give too much away, but we don’t think you can make a Saw movie without Jigsaw," Wan tells us. "That’s the bottom line." bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3...
- One of the greats. 🖤
- The directors behind GIVE ME THE BALL! gave a healthy “Abolish ICE” (possibly “Fuck ICE,” but fest head’s a lil blurry) to the same crowd roar. The doc’ers came out swinging this year at Sundance. (WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS is damn good.)
- [me in the apocalypse] “So what can you offer?” “Well, if you play a bunch of movies in a row, over and over for about a week, and ask me to review every one of them, I can deliver on-time and quality critiques under extreme pressure and deadlines.” [immediately cannibalized]
