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 […]
Has any movie taunted fans as much as Don Coscarelli’s “John Dies At The End?” For the past few year or two drips and drabs of information about this film has appeared on the Internet, yet it somehow never manages to reach theaters, or VOD, or iTunes, or any venue that might let someone view […]
Scott Derrickson’s “Sinister” is an entertaining film, but a pervasive sense of illogic stops if from being truly great. Scott Derrickson’s “Sinister” is an entertaining film, though unfortunately it’s not nearly as good as it could be, and the responsibility for that has to lain at the feet of Derrickson, who wrote (with C. Robert Cargill) as well as […]
“2012: Zombie Apocalypse” is currently on Netflix, and it’s “Syfy Good.” By which I mean, for a Syfy Channel production, it’s pretty good. Now, if just about anyone else had produced it, it would be terrible. Keep in mind that this is the same outfit that produced films like “Almighty Thor,” (which attempted to cash […]
I don’t think that I posted this, so here goes. I do so not because I expect the film to be that good–I don’t–but because I dig the genre. That being said, how is it that Selene was able to be captured by humans? If you take a look at the trailer, she makes short […]
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