I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic when I say that Mike Flanagan is among the best – if not the best – directors currently working in horror. And you likely noticed that “Mike Flanagan” isn’t either Guillermo Del Toro, James Wan or Andy Muschietti. And that’s because Del Toro – while never far from the […]
Looking at Dominique Rocher’s The Night Eats The World in a somewhat cursory fashion, you might assume that it’s a copy of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. Sure, it takes place in Paris, while 28 Days Later calls the UK home. The latter revolves around a man named Jim (Cillian Murphy), who wakes up in […]
If you ask me the entire point of a prequel – be it a movie, television series or whatever – is to elaborate on, to build upon. what currently exists. I mean, as much hate as is typically thrown at Exorcist II: The Heretic (a favorite of mine) – which is technically a sequel though […]
It’s the best thing when you stumble upon a pleasant surprise where one wasn’t expected, which was how I felt about Paul Soter’s Dark Circles (currently streaming on Tubi). The movie is a horror/thriler about a couple (Johnathon Schaech and Pell James) who move to a new house in the country. Part of the reason […]
Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You is an ambitious movie, way more ambitions that anything a first-time director has any right to tackle (prior Riley co-directed a short with Chris Wroubel). Lakeith – or is that “LaKeith? – Stanfield (Knives Out) is Cassius Green, a guy who’s moving through life in a perpetual state of […]
The first entry in the long-running American Horror Story franchise – it’s been on the air for nine years and apparently going strong – I saw was Murder House, and I hated it. It’s been awhile though what stuck with me was the trashiness of the whole enterprise, which is why it’s taken me nine […]
Matt Stuertz’s Tonight She Comes is a remarkable movie that to my reckoning feels like the sequel to The Evil Dead (1981) we should’ve got, yet somehow begins as a homage to It Follows (2014) and still manages to not only be cohesive, but it’s own thing. I did I mention that’s it’s gory, but […]
I enjoyed the first season of Netflix’s The Order-which I am wont to do whenever something deals with werewolves–but couldn’t help but notice that the bloom was off the rose. By which I mean I started to notice certain things, like these werewolves are stupid. Now that’s less a commentary on the CGI-ified werewolves themselves […]
I’ve recall reading reviews of Greg McLean’s The Darkness at the time it was released in theaters and got the impression that it wasn’t worth seeing though it turned up on Netflix recently, and I gave it a watch. And almost immediately realized that I and the critics were sorta right-in the sense that it’s […]
Netflix’s Curon-a sorta-Young Adult series?-has all the elements it needs to be wildly entertaining: a hotel where a heinous act was committed, wolves (that actually look like wolves, as opposed to Huskies), a creepy pair of fraternal twins, a sunken town, doppelgängers and creepy townies. So, why does it just not gel? I mentioned that […]
