I really enjoyed William Eubank’s Underwater – though if you haven’t seen it check out his first movie, The Signal (2014), which combines Dark City (1998) with an alien abduction story; which is admittedly a bit oxymoronic, but it works – and even own a copy (or is that license?) though whatever the creature is […]
Paco Plaza as a director has always been competent, but rarely innovative. In fact, I’d argue that beyond 2007’s Rec he isn’t innovative at all. That being said, not everyone makes it their business to remake the wheel and it should be enough to do your job with a high degree of competence though the […]
Apparently there’s a new version of Stephen King’s Salems’s Lot, and according to King it’s quite good though for whatever reason Warner Bros. has not released it (in theaters or streaming). Now I can see why Stephen King is concerned, after all it’s not beyond reason to think that maybe the series/movie will not be […]
I hadn’t seen Victor Salva‘s Jeepers Creepers II in a while so I recently rewatched it. And it’s better than I remembered. Jeepers Creepers II takes place after the original 2001 film with a new story that reveals more information about The Creeper and by my reckoning is one of the best sequels ever made, […]
I readily admit that the only reason I looked at this trailer was because ‘Red Letter Day‘ is the title of a really good China Crisis song (it’s also the the title of a U2 song, which I don’t care for as much) and it’s a horror movie. What it looks like is a play […]
I know that I have written on the reboot of the The Town That Dreaded Sundown before, but since the original has just turned up on Netflix, I though I’d throw something together. If you’re into horror movies, it’s worth checking out because it’s a pretty good movie, though another reason is that if you intend […]
There are only so many horror tropes to draw on: Killer aboard spaceship knocking people off; killer robot aboard spaceship knocking people off; killer robot mutant aboard spaceship knocking people off; alien aboard spaceship knocking people off; vengeful host of alien, which lives on in a now killer robot, knocking people off. Replace ‘spaceship’ with […]
“There’s nothing wrong with Esther that a few well-placed bullets couldn’t cure.” There are some people that will tell you the secret of “Orphan,” which if you haven’t seen it is a shame because it deserves to be taken on its own terms. And though the naysayers in some instances have raised valid points, it […]
“R.I.P.D,” or ‘Rest In Peace Department’ stars Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges, though why does it feel as if this film is sneaking in under the radar? The trailer plays like “Men In Black,” except with – I assume – a much, much smaller budget and various varieties of the undead, instead of aliens. It’s […]
““Mama” is an auspicious debut from Andrés (Andy) Muschietti that gets much more right than wrong.” Andy Muschietti’s “Mama” is a bit of a throwback to an era when horror films aimed not to disgust, but to scare and frighten. It was a time when most of the violence was implied, yet somehow was more effective than […]
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