For awhile Alexandre Aja was the Next Big Thing as far as horror directors go. In 2003 his High Tension (know as Haute Tension in the original French and Switchblade Romance in the U.K.) was described as “Disturbing, demented, gory and one of the best horror films I’ve seen in awhile,” by Felix Vasquez, Jr […]
The “first” version of IT earned somewhere in the ballpark of $700 million dollars (on a $35 million budget), which is interesting considering that it–pardon the pun–was weak tea as far as horror movies go. And speaking of box office, the receipts of the original movie indicates two things. First, it’s likely that the budget […]
Alien: Harvest is the sixth 40th Anniversary Alien short and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Visually, it’s likely the strongest of the series and reminds me more of Tony Scott than Ridley Scott. The place where it falls apart is toward the end where it plays less like a cohesive narrative than a […]
You’ve likely seen a movie that was so similar to another that the similarities bothered you though what do you do about a movie that is so similar to another that it feels like plagiarism? That’s the problem I encountered with Josh Lobo’sI Trapped The Devil. It works as a thriller about a man who […]
I like the trailer for the upcoming horror movie, Head Count. As far as I can tell it revolves around a group of friends who tae a trip to Joshua Tree and somehow manage to awake some malign presence. The trailer doesn’t give you a lot to go on, but considering we’re talking about a […]
What is it with Alien movies? The feature films can’t seem to remain faithful to their underlying ideas and mythology, so why should I expect shorts based on said movies to be any different? And Alien: Alone proves my point. The concept is interesting, but it takes too many liberties with the source material. It’s […]
This is a pretty good trailer. It plays up the horror elements (in fact one scene in particular plays like a homage to John Carpenter’s The Fog) and feels very atmospheric. Tone is important, and it’s something that DC–in movies as well as streaming, if Titans is any indicator–for whatever reason can’t seem to get […]
Why does this thing exist (beyond a cynical money grab, that is) like, at all? This reboot appears to be a carbon copy of the original movie, with the exception that “Chucky” is now “Buddi”– what’s with the “i” anyway?–and is powered by AI (artificial intelligence) instead of Vodou. Heck, he still SOUNDS LIKE BRAD […]
This looks pretty good. While good horror movies aren’t as hard to come by has they have been in the (recent) past, we can’t rest on our laurels because when the studios find a format they can do cheaply as possible all aspirations of a sensible plot and interesting storytelling will just as quickly go […]
The Silence is thematically speaking vaguely similar to A Quiet Place and Bird Box in that they all revolve around antagonists that key into a particular sense. A Quiet Place revolved around creatures that hunted by sound–the same as those in The Silence–while Bird Box’s terrors were visually driven. And that similarity would be fine […]
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