Zach Cregger’s Barbarian isn’t the scariest movie you’ll ever see – despite the commercial promoting the movie strongly implying exactly that – though it’s a shockingly good horror movie. And what’s particularly interesting is that Cregger wrote as well as directed, and the movie is surprisingly layered (by which I mean there’s more to it […]
Neil Marshall by my reckoning has never been a particularly innovative director though he’s always managed to take a familiar subject and make it feel somewhat novel. The first time I noticed this tendency was with Doomsday, which I enjoyed but bit also seemed to be mimicking George Miller; not so much that it wasn’t […]
The last two episodes of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities are wonderful for entirely different reasons. Panos Cosmatos’ The Viewing – by my reckoning – revolves primarily around a very atypical alien invasion, though it so strongly embodies the stylistic flourishes he brought to movies like Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) and Mandy (2018) […]
It’s interesting to me that a series overseen by Guillermo Del Toro, who has yet to get his interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness off the ground, would have not only one, but two adaptations of Lovecraft-penned stories and they’re somehow the weakest episodes thus far. Though keep in mind that the […]
I thought the first two episodes of Cabinet of Curiosities were strong, but not outstanding. Don’t get me wrong, that’s not to imply that I didn’t like them on any level, though the first, Lot 36, didn’t quite come together as well as it could have. And in doing so, while it didn’t spoil the […]
I took a look at the first two episodes of Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and it’s a great looking show, perhaps the most ambitious anthology series made for television. Which should be expected with Del Toro executive producing and having directors like Guillermo Navarro (a renown cinematographer who has worked on 50 feature […]
I really wanted to love Hulu’s reboot/relaunch/continuation of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and while there were many pleasures to be found – for instance, Ben Lovett’s music and Eli Born’s cinematography – there was one problem that I found to be unforgivable, virtually a cardinal sin as far as relaunching anything goes. And that’s knowing when […]
Of course I’m being facetious because Damien Leone’s Terrifier is the sort of movie that a lot of adults might have difficulty with, never mind children; which is a pity because it’s really hilarious. The movie revolves around a clown named Art who seemingly kills for no other reason than it’s what he enjoys doing […]
I watch a lot of movies (which isn’t a humble brag because that would be weird) and while I don’t typically find a lot of stuff I hate – which isn’t to say that it don’t exist though I usually won’t sit though it to discover the true depths of it’s awfulness – I also […]
I really enjoyed Marcus Nispel’s Exeter as a black comedy though the thing is I’m not entirely sure that that’s exactly the way it was intended. The movie revolves around a bunch of young people – relatively speaking – who decide to party in a institution for troubled young people, who seemingly end up waking […]
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