I didn’t much like 2008’s The Strangers because I had the feeling that it didn’t quite know what it was supposed to be. Despite the movie being based upon a real crime, the Keddie murders, the antagonists appeared almost supernatural, vanishing and appearing in various places without a sound. Locked doors were no obstacle, which […]
Netflix’s Marianne is a pretty entertaining horror series, which is worth mentioning because there’s plenty of horror out there, and not all of it is worth watching. The series–coming in at a lean eight episodes–revolves around a writer, Emma Larsimon (Victoire Du Bois), who’s drawn by tragedy back to her home town, which begats even […]
Alex Merkin’s House Of The Witch has a great opening that hints at all sort of scary things and while it’s nothing you haven’t seen before, it’s pretty well done. Then you see the rest of the movie, where all that promise built up with that opening is blithely discarded because it isn’t terribly good. […]
I honestly think the short story should be treated as a higher form of literature than long form storytelling. Think about it. You have a fixed amount of pages to establish the motivations of your characters, the world they live in and why things are proceeding however they happen to be. As I said, it’s […]
You can say a lot of things about Netflix, but they do Stephen King adaptations right. So far they’ve done two, 1922 and Gerald’s Game, and both are really, really good perhaps for the reason that they concentrate on human stories with supernatural overtones, as opposed to supernatural stories that revolve around people. The latest […]
Expectations are a difficult thing sometimes. I went into the The Banana Splits Movie expecting something perhaps a little subversive, yet…fun. Instead I got a horror movie–what I expected. It’s surprisingly gory at times–with only hints of the subversiveness that I was looking for. And that’s a pity because otherwise, what’s the point? The biggest […]
I didn’t see IT: Chapter 2 because I was underwhelmed by IT: Chapter 1 so I didn’t quite see the point. And with Doctor Sleep coming sometime in November I’m looking forward to some horror content before that time, so enter Haunt. It sounds vaguely like The Houses October Built, though with Eli Roth directing […]
I didn’t see IT: Chapter 2 in theaters this weekend because I saw IT: Chapter 1 and was thoroughly underwhelmed. Doctor Sleep, like IT, is a Stephen King adaptation so I’m hoping that it’s worthwhile to see in theaters. What it has in it’s favor is that it’s directed by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting Of […]
Osgood Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel looks to continue the esthetic began with movies like The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015) and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House (2016) which is to say horror that is subtle and cares less about gore and jump scares than creating a mood and an atmosphere. Perkins is […]
While I enjoyed the teaser trailer for To Your Last Death I don’t quite understand the point of it in that–in the teaser at least–it looks like a lot of live action movies we’ve seen before, like Saw or The Collector. The strongest thing about it is the animation, which is a more traditional 2D […]
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