When I first saw the trailer for The Fearway I really liked it – what’s not to like about a mysterious black Dodge Challenger threatening a seemingly innocent couple? It’s the stuff horror movies are made of! – that is, till the trailer revealed the antagonist. That really bugged me because when movies do that […]
Split Second is a curious movie in that despite it’s formula – cop faces off against a murderous enemy that turns up every few years to kill – being a fairly standard one that worked particularly well in movies like Predator (1987) yet doesn’t work here. I think a lot of the problem comes down […]
If you’re like me and hear a description of Tony Maylam’s Split Second you’d likely think that it has everything that you’d want in a sci-fi/horror/detective thriller. You have Rutger Hauer playing the detective with the addition of a monster intent on killing him. Add an noir-adjacent atmosphere and one might think that they’d stumbled […]
Stuart Gordon’s Space Truckers is by my reckoning remarkable in that so many esteemed people behind the scenes were involved with its production, yet it somehow never managed to come together. For instance, Brian Johnson, who did the effects work for movies like Space: 1999 (1975), Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Dragonslayer (1981), and others supervised […]
No…? Though to prove it is people typically bring up movies like Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) not doing as well as the first movie – and financially speaking that’s true, except when you take into account that not only had the lead, Chadwick Boseman, died in 2020 and the sequel not only didn’t replace […]
I genuinely enjoyed Terrifier (2016) because it played more like a pitch black, ultra-violent horror comedy than anything else. Much to my dismay the sequel ditches the brunt of the humor, rendering it mostly of a study in the ways Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) can dole out grisly violence. And if it had […]
I saw Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania last week, and I’m wondering what all the dislike it about. Ant-Man has always been a palate cleanser of sorts and I can see why Peyton Reed would want to do something more expansive the third time around (and to be fair that’s the case with most comic […]
Mark Mylod’s The Menu by my reckoning is at its core a story about a cult leader/madman who lures a bunch of people to his stronghold and kills not only them, but himself. That the cult leader happens to be a chef, Chef Slowik (Ralph Finnes) and revolves around 12 people being invited to his […]
Based on the trailer for Nathaniel Martello-White’s The Strays one could be forgive to thinking that the movie is very much like Jordan Peele movies like Us, which is to say a horror movie with either vague or overtly supernatural overtones. And it isn’t, not at all. The story revolves around a woman, Neve (Ashley […]
I have to admit that for awhile I was wondering if Aaron Morehead and Justin Benson (Resolution, Spring, The Endless, etc) had lost their touch because while I was blown away by Resolution (2012) each subsequent film I’ve seen from the pair seemed to drop in my esteem. And it wasn’t that the followups were […]
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