I had never heard of Stacy Title’s The Bye Bye Man–or Stacy Title, which doesn’t sound like a real name, for that matter–before yesterday, but it’s a horror movie so it got my attention. What’s interesting is that it’s from STX Entertainment, who earlier this year released The Boy. It seems to me that they’re […]
I think Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush) is quite a talented director. That being said, I find the latest trailer from his upcoming Ouija 2: Origin of Evil in some ways a bit disturbing (and not in the good, creepy, what’s that shadow doing there kind of way). It’s not that I think that it’s going […]
As I have said time and again, I am not fond of remakes. More often than not they don’t add anything to the original–did we really need to know about Michael Myers difficult upbringing in Rob Zombie’s Halloween reboot?–or they add details that seemingly are there just to differentiate them from the original. The thing is, as […]
The trailer for Rings dropped yesterday, and having just rewatched it a moment ago leaves me with a few questions: First, wasn’t the whole mystery of Samara solved in The Ring 2 (it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but I recall her being set free or something along those lines)? Now, I understand that […]
Remember when I did a writeup of the Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Teaser Trailer and all I did was complain about how much I dislike the series? That hasn’t changed. Though I find the first full trailer for the movie interesting because it contains various elements from the first movie, such as the laser trap… and […]
Contrary to what some people say 2014’s Ouija–based on the Hasbro board ‘game‘; And before you say it, Yes. that spooky-ass thing is an actual game–wasn’t a bad movie more than it was a ‘Meh’ movie. And that’s coming from someone who had the misfortune of paying to see it. It took what should have been terrifying–Ouija, […]
Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’s 1999 movie The Blair Witch Project was an aberration–a successful one, but an aberration nonetheless–that has DNA that leads not only to low-budget horror features like the Paranormal Activity movies but an entire studio, Blumhouse Pictures, built on the model. And a very successful model it is. The last movie in Blumhouse’s Purge trilogy […]
The Abandoned is a pretty decent horror movie, though you have to be patient with it because the ending isn’t exactly the culmination of everything that came before. I don’t mean to imply that it’s badly made–it’s not–but it rewards you for paying attention. And I have to mention the movie’s cinematographer, Zach Galler, […]
I honestly don’t get all the excitement over James Wan and his ersatz horror movies. As far as I’m concerned, Saw was probably his high-water mark. The Conjuring? Insidious? Dead Silence? All competently made, all okay movies, though none particularly scary. This is mainly because what he doesn’t do quite so well is atmosphere, which […]
Don’t Breathe is an interesting trailer that comes off as the anti-Hush, if you will. Hush, currently on Netflix, revolves a woman who–if I recall–loses her voice to a bout of meningitis at some point in her past. She ends up terrorized by a killer and she’s unable to call for help because the aforementioned infection robbed […]
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