The trailer for Shudder’s Creepshow dropped a day or so ago…and it’s fine. That’s (deliberately) muted phrase but since we’re talking about a show based upon an movie that was an anthology–a collection of short stories–it’s particularly hard to make a trailer about them because the scenes featured will likely lack any sort of interconnectedness. […]
I not only genuinely enjoyed Ari Aster’s Midsommar–the followup to 2018’s Hereditary–but believe it to be a genuine horror movie, as opposed to what a lot of critics will tell you. Though I can see why people would be confused: the movie has a very documentary-type style which making nailing it down a bit difficult […]
I like high-concept movies. Sure, they’re a risk and easy to botch up but when they work…the payoff is pretty good. Which I mention because I found a teaser trailer for a concept called EsKILLator, a idea from the talented Ben Plumier. About–it should go without saying–a killer escalator (which isn’t as unusual as you […]
The latest edition of Netflix’s Stranger Things franchise, Stranger Things 3, premiered last Friday and it was fine though there’s a sameness to the proceedings this time around. Part of this sameness is due to the format, which revolves around the adventures of a bunch of young boys growing up (essentially Stephen King’s Stand By […]
I have never been a fan of remakes though sometimes…sometimes they just work. For instance, John Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing is a remake of Christian Nyby’s (with uncredited direction from Howard Hawks) The Thing From Another World or David Cronenberg’s 1986 movie The Fly, a remake of the 1958 original. Both are far better […]
This weekend–after taking advantage of a free month of Hulu–I caught Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain and it was pretty good which only fell short of remarkable because the fourth season felt truncated (According to shorrunner/director Carlton Cuse Del Toro actually had plans for a fifth season, which would have given what ended up being […]
If anyone had told me that there was a movie being released based on the 1968 television show I would have laughed because there’s no way today’s Internet-savvy children would get into for a bunch of guys running around like idiots in costumes. Then if you had added that it would be a horror/comedy I […]
Gene Blalock’s The Nightmare Gallery is an interesting horror film that follows in the footsteps of movies like John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness and Jacob’s Ladder, except not nearly as interestingly as either of those movies. Part of the issue is the narrative, which is a bit muddled. Another is that the movie’s […]
I like this trailer. As I have said before: Black humor is the best humor. I don’t tend to enjoy Three Stooges-type antics–unless we’re actually talking about The Three Stooges, who are AWESOME!–but humor based on manners, on quirks in typical behaviors? That’s my JAM! This trailer for Ready Or Not looks like it’s just […]
Richard Shepard’s The Perfection is a damn good horror movie. As I mention in my review, it’s production designed to the nines. You can tell there’s some serious money being spend on this movie but it’s oddly not ostentatiously so in that it doesn’t feel like the producers a gathering a massive pile of greenbacks […]
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