I don’t know about you but I really dig vampires, especially when they’re in the fashion of Near Dark and 30 Days Of Night. Reason being, they’re not the more traditional. romantic interpretations of the vampire myth, with fears of crucifixes and churches. These modern day horrors tend to more science-adjacent, typically coming by their […]
When I heard all the buzz revolving around Pheobe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag I don’t know what I expected, though what I didn’t expect was to “meet” a character that was in many ways extremely unlikable. She’s a thief, a bit of a liar and has a really irritating tendency of talking to the camera, less a […]
Michael Bay isn’t what I call a subtle director, and nothing about the ‘Visit Italy’ trailer for his upcoming 6 Underground indicates that that’s a mistaken impression. And that’s the problem because–at least for me–Bay being Bay isn’t terribly interesting. What is is that he’s working with Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick (Zombieland, Deadpool, Deadpool 2) […]
Disappointed by Terminator: Dark Fate (apparently if the box office’s any indicator you wouldn’t be the only one) and have a Netflix subscription? Check out In The Shadow Of The Moon, Jim Mickle’s, thematically speaking, Terminator-like sci-fi movie because it’s really good. I could go into the plot–but I won’t because it’s integral to the […]
Yimou Zhang’s Shadow is a remarkable bit of filmmaking. The movie revolves around two kingdoms on the precipice of war, and the political intrigues that come about. That doesn’t sound like much, but as executed by Zhang, it’s pretty remarkable stuff. And did I mention the entire movie is rendered in shades of white, black […]
Having seen the most recent trailer for Netflix’s The Witcher it honestly doesn’t reveal any more than the teaser trailer did, which is a bit of a bummer. That being said, the production looks to be of the highest caliber, which gorgeous production design and an interesting visual esthetic. I won’t mention anything about it […]
I’ve recently seen the first season of Amazon’s The Boys and I honestly don’t see what the hullabaloo is about. It’s not terrible by any metric that I can see though unfortunately it’s not great, either. Part of my problem is that it’s based on the work of Garth Ennis, who’s known for his darkly […]
Ciarán Foy’s Eli is a surprise because Netflix is at best uneven as far as their horror offerings go. In other words, for every The Haunting Of Hill House there’s at least three Hemlock Groves. Luckily Eli is closer to the former than the latter. Foy has a faculty for directing younger people, and Eli […]
Netflix’s Marianne is a pretty entertaining horror series, which is worth mentioning because there’s plenty of horror out there, and not all of it is worth watching. The series–coming in at a lean eight episodes–revolves around a writer, Emma Larsimon (Victoire Du Bois), who’s drawn by tragedy back to her home town, which begats even […]
Alex Merkin’s House Of The Witch has a great opening that hints at all sort of scary things and while it’s nothing you haven’t seen before, it’s pretty well done. Then you see the rest of the movie, where all that promise built up with that opening is blithely discarded because it isn’t terribly good. […]
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