The trailer for Netflix’s The Haunting Of Hill House dropped a few days ago and while I really enjoyed the teaser I was a bit underwhelmed by the trailer. Reason being, it throws too much at the screen and feels chaotic and less supernatural than dramatic, while the teaser was more focused on minimalism and […]
The first trailer for Marvel Studios Captain Marvel dropped this morning, and it you’re unfamiliar with the character you’ll likely have no idea what’s going on. The trailer has little in the way of any sort of narrative thrust, though you do learn that Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) is a warrior and has flashbacks of […]
Shows like Riverdale and now The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina I find genuinely perplexing because they take what people read the comics for–humor and an often irrelevant tone–and turn them, in the case of the former, to essentially 90210. It’s really odd and a little off-putting for me, which is why so have yet to […]
I’m looking forward to Shane Black’s take on the Predator franchise but at the same time I’m not too sure it’s going to work out. He’s clearly good at what he does (after all, he wrote Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Last Boy Scout and directed Iron Man 3, among others) though he […]
I LOVE this teaser. It’s genuinely more creepy than some entire movies (which shouldn’t be a surprise considering the movie–and I assume this teaser–was directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil) because it’s all about projecting a haunting, vaguely sinister atmosphere. Proof that what you don’t see can be as scary as […]
While I readily admit that a remake of Dario Argento’s giallo classic Susperia is a pretty good idea–despite not being a fan of remakes in general–I’m not terribly fond of the trailers so far released. They–particularly the first full trailer–feels too restrained, too subtle, too retro Horror (which I define as a horror movie that […]
I recall debating someone about the teaser trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Susperia a few months ago on Twitter, about how I found it not particularly scary. In fact, I still think that the producers should have went with an update of the original commercial, literally note for note. Though having seen the full […]
You have to hand it to A24. After all, this is the same studio that released Hereditary so it wouldn’t shock me if after that bit of retro-horror they’d rest on their laurels and go with something a little more conventional. And you’d be wrong because it’s followup is Slice, a movie apparently about a […]
I don’t know why I’m so annoyed with the trailer for the last Sharknado–fittingly titled The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (not to be confused with Amityville 1992: It’s About Time, which I recall being a pretty good movie). After all, none of the Sharknado movies ever pretended to be realistic, which is good when you consider […]
Netflix dropped the trailer for the second season of Marvel’s Iron Fist a few hours ago, and it looks… okay. I don’t mean that to imply that I didn’t enjoy it or Iron Fist’s first season–I did–though I thought the Season Two trailer didn’t necessarily give enough new information to intrigue me (particularly as someone […]
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