I don’t think it’s hyperbole if one were to say Guillermo Del Toro is among the most renown directors of the fantastic working today. Since his first feature film, 1993’s Chronos, the Mexican auteur has been well represented in the worlds of horror and the uncanny. Then there was 2015’s Crimson Peak, which was a […]
I can’t speak for anyone else but I really enjoyed Slasher, the anthology horror series created by Aaron Martin, that I first discovered on Netflix (it’s in the vein of American Horror Story, except less seedy). Like AHS it tended to use some of the same actors from one season to the next – it […]
David Cronenberg has to rank among the best directors not working nearly as often as he should though I must admit that I didn’t prefer his shift toward more realistic fare with movies like A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. It’s not those were movies were bad more than Cronenberg appeared to be like […]
The last movie I saw about horrors from the deep was Underwater from earlier this year, so my bar for waterborne terror is pretty high. That being said, I should know better because I’ve also seen Leviathan and Deep Star Six – both from 1989 – and television shows like Surface (2005) – and while […]
Travis Steven’s Girl On The Third Floor is a pleasant surprise, a horror movie that manages to take tropes that are familiar to people who’re fans of the genre, yet manage to be it’s own thing. For instance, I can see instances of the work of David Cronenberg (Videodrome in particular) and Michael Winner (The […]
I have never been a fan of remakes though sometimes…sometimes they just work. For instance, John Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing is a remake of Christian Nyby’s (with uncredited direction from Howard Hawks) The Thing From Another World or David Cronenberg’s 1986 movie The Fly, a remake of the 1958 original. Both are far better […]
Richard Shepard’s The Perfection is a damn good horror movie. As I mention in my review, it’s production designed to the nines. You can tell there’s some serious money being spend on this movie but it’s oddly not ostentatiously so in that it doesn’t feel like the producers a gathering a massive pile of greenbacks […]
I am mystified why Brian DePalma’s The Fury (based on the novel by John Farris) hasn’t been remade because not only would the movie benefit from a more timely interpretation (in these days of government programs we often don’t completely understand, but fear a reboot could potentially find a very receptive audience) and a more […]
What I mean is that Ciarán Foy will be taking the reigns of the upcoming Sinister 2 from Scott Derrickson, who has his hands full preparing to helm Marvel Studios’ upcoming feature based on their Master of the Mystic Arts, Doctor Strange. The only film I have seen of Foy’s is his 2012 film Citadel (which plays […]
As I understand it, this isn’t the actual trailer for David Cronenberg’s upcoming “Map To the Stars,” but one cut for the purpose of international sales. I stumbled upon it–with more than a little help from “The Wrap”–though it makes me wonder why Cronenberg continues to work with Robert Patterson. If their last film together, […]
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