I like this trailer. Take four or five people, heretofore unknown to each other, put them into a controlled–by someone–situation where they’re faced with either solving a puzzle, or dying. It plays a bit like Cube meets Saw (hopefully without the sadism) though what’s going to make or break this movie is the chemistry between […]
I hate to be a cynic–it’s safe to assume not enough that I won’t act like one–though my expectations for The Final Wish are…pretty low. I like to call this one ‘The Lin Shaye and Tony Todd Movie’ because they’re the only reason anyone is likely interested in seeing it (low blow. I hope you’re […]
Gary J. Tunnicliffe’s Hellraiser: Judgment turned up yesterday on Netflix, which made me happy… Till I realized that most of the Hellraiser sequels were pretty not good and little more than efforts by Dimension Films to hold on to the license. Judgement is move in the right direction, but misses the mark in some pretty […]
A few moments ago the first trailer for Us dropped, which is the followup to Jordan Peele’s uber-successful debut, Get Out and…I’m intrigued. And I get the feeling what’s happening is that the family in the trailer are being menaced by alternate future versions of themselves–which doesn’t quite explain how they’re able to scale trees like […]
For me the sign of really transcendent fiction–be it a movie, novel or whatever–is when it can not only weather different interpretations, but thrive as a result of them. Which is exactly how I feel about Netflix’s The Haunting Of Hill House. I have already done a review which covered how impressed I was by […]
The first movie I saw from Johannes Roberts was the sci-fi/horror movie Storage 24, which I enjoyed. It had elements of horror and comedy and for the most part really worked though what I liked most was the alien, which was entirely practical and acted by a man on stilts of some sort. It was […]
I didn’t catch the original Happy Death Day in theaters–it looked okay but seemed to play too much like a more violent Groundhog Day (which was a pretty horrific movie when you think about it) though apparently that didn’t stop other people from catching it. It goes without saying that the movie comes from Blumhouse […]
Collider has just reported that there’s a reboot to the goofy Leprachaun movies coming, called Leprechaun Returns (I’m unaware if it’s a sequel to 2014’s Leprechaun: Origins). And speaking of Origins, it wasn’t great but you could see the franchise moving away from the somewhat sillier aspects of the franchise. The Leprechaun movies have for […]
I caught Julius Avery’s Overlord yesterday, and for the most part enjoyed it. In particular there were some pretty engaging moments of body horror that came from nowhere and really livened things up. That being said there were also a few niggling details that distracted from it being all it could be. One of which was […]
In these days of false equivalency, when there are very fine people on both sides it’s kind of refreshing to see a movie making the heretofore noncontroversial point that Nazis are scum. And not only run of the mill scum, but truly monsters. By the way, I don’t know who designed the movie poster, but […]
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