When Guillermo del Toro says that his latest movie, Crimson Peak, isn’t a horror movie, but a gothic romance, he means it. A gothic romance is a type of movie that, while horror-adjacent, visually, beckons back to movies like The Innocents, where elaborate costumes and sets help to set the mood and atmosphere. And like Jack Clayton’s 1961 movie, […]
This post is based on (admittedly) thin evidence, though there is a logic.
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead‘s Spring is an apt trailer to post since just earlier this week I was writing about H.P. Lovecraft. The movie revolves around (Lou Taylor Pucci) who meets Louise (Nadia Hilker) in Italy, and falls madly in love. Sure, it’s weird that Evan can only see her at night, but what relationship […]
And in case you don’t get the reference… And you should know that I don’t take to paraphrasing Princess Leia lightly, though I think that it’s warranted in this particular case. Call Girl Of Cthulhu trailer The point being, I have just seen the trailer for Call Girl of Cthulhu and it looks to be in […]
Legendary Pictures can certainly use a hit, after the dismal performance of Black Hat and Seventh Son. That being said, I hope that Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak is the movie that does it for them. That being said, there are a few things riding against it. First off, it’s rated R, which means that […]
The halcyon days when trailers simply existed to inform viewers about a particularly movie, as opposed to being events in and of themselves, is pretty much a thing of the past. If I had any doubts, then the email I received from The Hollywood Reporter removed them. It explains that the trailer for the J.J. Abrams-directed Star […]
I’ve played the original Dragon Age, if I recall, for less than a half hour before I lost interest. That’s more a commentary on me being really fickle more than anything else. In other words, it doesn’t take much for me to lose interest in something. For instance, if the control scheme is a bit unusual and […]
I caught Ouija last weekend, and it was okay; by which I mean that it wasn’t the worst movie I’ve seen (which barely qualifies as praise). It had moments of interest, though thematically as well as visually it played out eerily similar to movies like The Conjuring, Annabelle and Insidious (which were also produced by Blumhouse Pictures, which I hope […]
Originally the movie Ouija was going to be huge, in terms of budget, before Universal (the studio releasing the horror feature) balked and almost abandoned the project. The story was tweaked, and it was brought in significantly cheaper, and the rest is history. It always mystified me why it was originally planned as a big-budget feature (other than […]
Guillermo del Toro, coming off the success of How To Train Your Dragon 2 (it’s earned over $535 million worldwide) has also produced the upcoming The Book of Life. Judging from the trailer it looks like it could be fun but I have a few caveats: First, it’s a cartoon that revolves around the Mexican Day of the […]
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