I have to admit that when I learned that Osgood Perkins (I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House, Longlegs) was working with James Wan on a Stephen King adaptation, I wasn’t optimistic. After all, Wan is at best uneven as a director/producer while I’d argue that there are more mediocre to bad […]
Damian McCarthy’s Oddity is by my reckoning the best movie horror movie I’ve seen in 2025 (it was released toward the end of the prior year) not because it’s perfect – though it’s pretty damn close – but because it does so much right. By which I mean the movie introduces numerous things at the […]
While I think that the best genre is produced in the United States, there are some pretty strong contenders. Such as the French. Directors like Alexandre Aja, Xavier Gans, Dominique Rochere, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, etc are really doing some really interesting work in that they take ideas you’ve seen before, such as serial […]
I don’t tend to enjoy movies that speculate on the existence of cryptids like Bigfoot, Nessie, Champ and whatever based entirely on people’s say-so without a shred of supporting evidence (and it goes without saying that whenever there is proof it that it tends to be unconvincing). Which brings me to the trailer for On […]
I’ve gotta admit that I’ve become a bit fixated with Jack Clayton’s Something Wicked This Way Comes because having listened to the soundtrack for his movie by Georges Delerue (before he was replaced by James Horner) it’s music that’s vastly different from the visuals. This leads me to believe that, while I’m quite aware that […]
There’s been movement on Todd McFarland’s Spawn movie – I don’t know if Jamie Foxx is still attached – though this movie seems to have been in development for almost a decade. According to Comicbook.com McFarland has brought in a two-time Academy Award nominated writer, though at this point I’m just wondering if he’s just […]
I really enjoyed William Eubank’s Underwater – though if you haven’t seen it check out his first movie, The Signal (2014), which combines Dark City (1998) with an alien abduction story; which is admittedly a bit oxymoronic, but it works – and even own a copy (or is that license?) though whatever the creature is […]
Paco Plaza as a director has always been competent, but rarely innovative. In fact, I’d argue that beyond 2007’s Rec he isn’t innovative at all. That being said, not everyone makes it their business to remake the wheel and it should be enough to do your job with a high degree of competence though the […]
I had fairly high hopes for John Woo’s Silent Night, though it never managed to rise above being a movie based on a gimmick (a modern movie – almost – entirely without dialog). The idea is interesting though the way the movie goes about doing it is really odd in that Brian Godlock (Joel Kinnaman) […]
The trailer for Fede Alvarez’s ‘Alien: Romulus’ is finally here, though if you’ve been looking for it prior on YouTube I can understand your skepticism since trailers for the movie have been turning up for the better part of a year. Though I assure you, this is the real thing though don’t take my word […]
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