I have never been a huge player of video games, though recently I have been playing Penumbra: Requiem, and realized that enjoy it. I don’t own any video game systems, though when I see trailers for games like The Evil Within it makes me wonder if perhaps life would be just a little bit better with […]
What it is about werewolf movies? For every The Howling, An American Werewolf In London or Dog Soldiers, you get twelve Skin Walkers and lots of crummy Howling sequels. I don’t know know in which column David Hayter’s Wolves falls, but if the trailer is any indicator, lycantrophy is being used as a thinly-veiled allegory for a young man’s transition into […]
After the mild letdown that was Annebelle, I am on the lookout for a really effective (read: scary) horror movie. I had my hopes on The Houses October Built–awesome title, by the way–till I learned that it’s made in the style of a found-footage movie, which implies that, at the very least, it’s not going to […]
“”Annabelle” has so much potential, most of which it doesn’t live up to.” I have seen some God-awful, cringe-worthy movies, which John Leonetti‘s Annabelle thankfully isn’t; though it is in a way worse because it had the potential to be so much more than it ended up being, which is a passable horror movie; a trifle that you almost […]
That was quite possibly one of the least scary trailers I have seen in awhile–which is saying something when you take into account trailers tend to show the best of a movie–but I have to give it a few points for going into how the doll was possessed in the first place. That doll looks […]
“Lawrence Fishburne Is The Best Thing In A Feature You Probably Already Seen In Other Movies.” I have been wanting to see The Colony every since I saw its trailer on YouTube four or five months ago, so naturally I was jazzed to learn that it’s on Netflix. It takes place in an indeterminate future, where we have built […]
If you’re a big fan of movies, particularly horror and sci-fi, you’ve probably taken a position on whether or not movies should use CGI (computer-generated imagery) or practical effects (which include prosthetics, animatronics, models and miniatures). Personally, I am a HUGE fans of practical effects. That being said, I understand that there are things that you […]
Let’s be clear: Larry Cohen‘s The Stuff isn’t anyone would call a good movie, but it is a damn interesting one. What it has going for it is a timely premise (the idea of consumerism run rampant combined with corporate and government malfeasance) and some very interesting special effects. The movie plays like a twisted version of […]
I like introducing artists to people who may not be aware that they’re out there, so here’s the trailer for The Purgation, a movie by Elaine Chu that revolves around a woman named Iris, who attempts the exorcise some figurative ghosts and, if the trailer is any indicator, ends up encountering some very literal ones. Then […]
I saw Charles B. Pierce‘s original The Town That Dreaded Sundown a long time ago, and I recall it being particularly scary. What made it so was the fact–did I mention that it’s based on a true story?–that there wasn’t a rhyme or reason for the actions of the killer that anyone could see. Five or six […]
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