I hadn’t seen Victor Salva‘s Jeepers Creepers II in a while so I recently rewatched it. And it’s better than I remembered. Jeepers Creepers II takes place after the original 2001 film with a new story that reveals more information about The Creeper and by my reckoning is one of the best sequels ever made, […]
I have never really liked Constantine (2005) because Keanu Reeves was not only wrong for the role physically (he looks nothing like John Constantine as typically depicted, but in making the character American as opposed to British the filmmakers changed characteristics that were essential to his nature –being British, like any other group of people […]
Halloween II, directed by Rick Rosenthal is in it’s way fascinating because how it came together is more interesting than the movie itself. John Carpenter, the director of Halloween, didn’t want to revisit Haddonfield, instead wanting to direct a sequel revolving around entirely different characters, though holding in common Halloween and the potential horrors it […]
As far as I’m concerned, I’ve enjoyed everything – to varying degrees – that Mike Flanagan has produced for Netflix, but all good things must come to an end The Fall of the House of Usher is the last thing we’re likely to see from the auteur in that space for a long time, since […]
I’m a bit concerned about The Exorcist: Believer because it’s getting some fairly bad reviews (I’ve read only four or five, and none were particularly charitable). Now keep in mind, I’m fond of thinking for myself but at the same time if enough people say something sucks I tend to think they can’t all be […]
Did you see The Haunting of Hill House (2018) on Netflix? If you haven’t it’s still there and well worth seeing though the reason I mention it is because I have a suspicion that it owes a lot to Peter Medak’s The Changeling, which is likely among the best ghost stories ever put to film. […]
Danny and Michael Phillippou’s Talk to Me is a remarkable debut for the two Australian filmmakers and while it doesn’t do anything that you haven’t seen before, it does it so well that you don’t notice how familiar it actually is. The story revolves around a group of young people who with the use of […]
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 […]
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