Franck Khalfoun’s Prey is a fascinating movie, though not always in the way you’d like in the sense that it takes multiple storylines and brings them together in a way that doesn’t quite mesh. The main storyline revolves around Toby (Logan Miller) who, seemingly in an effort to recover from the death of his father, […]
Babak Anvari was a new quantity to me before I saw Wounds on Hulu, and having seen it, this guy is going to go far. Wounds is a story about a bartender named Will (Armie Hammer) who moves aimlessly though life but there’s a destiny waiting him, and it’s a horrific one. Wounds is more […]
Remember 2018’s A Quiet Place? The movie that–albeit indirectly–brought us Netflix’s Bird Box as well as The Silence? It cost $17 million to produce and earned almost $341 million. There’s no way that it wasn’t getting a sequel though was the original as good as a lot of people seem to think? I’d have to […]
Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo Suspiria is a movie that can’t be accused of copying the original, because it’s way too ambitious for that. And the problem–you know it was coming–is that the original movie was relatively simple: namely a horror movie that revolved around a dance academy. Guadagnino doesn’t neglect that […]
V Wars is a new horror series on Netflix that introduces a novel way global warming will change our lives. Namely. due to the effects of climate change dormant bacteria– actually prions–are reanimated, and begin to convert humans into vampires (!?). And I’m not a science guy and my only knowledge about prions comes from […]
The trailer for Blumhouse’s Antebellum is called a ‘trailer,’ when ‘teaser’ would be more apt. It’s so vague–you can tell it has something to do with Slavery (the ‘S’ is no accident. As that peculiar institution existed in the United States was quite unlike how it was elsewhere) and its various accoutrements are somehow reaching […]
Most remakes are pointless, though there are instances they offer something the original didn’t. Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch’s remake of Pet Sematary is definitely the former. That it’s so similar to the 1989 movie–directed by Mary Lambert–which makes sense since they’re both based on the same source material. This leads to the question: Why […]
I recall reading somewhere where Nick Cage referred to as an “A list” actor and while he may be many things I’m not at all sure that’s one of them. Reason being, he’s too quirky, too cognizant that movie making is a job above all else, which means he’s going to be in a lot […]
I don’t know about you but I really dig vampires, especially when they’re in the fashion of Near Dark and 30 Days Of Night. Reason being, they’re not the more traditional. romantic interpretations of the vampire myth, with fears of crucifixes and churches. These modern day horrors tend to more science-adjacent, typically coming by their […]
Sony can’t get over their fetishization of nostalgia. First there was Charlie’s Angels–which according to the media isn’t doing all that well–now there’s Fantasy Island, which if this trailer is any indicator, looks really, really interesting. It–as in the trailer–plays like a horror movie (being produced via Blumhouse doesn’t hurt that association) and it looks […]
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