I’ve always been obsessed with the horror genre, but I have a particularly fond place in my heart for the slashers of the 70s and 80s. I grew up watching Michael Myers, Freddy, Jason, Chucky, Pinhead and Leatherface, and seeing them again on the big screen is strangely like seeing an old friend. I’m […]
For the first hour and 45 minutes of this movie, I planned to start this review by ranting about how Hereditary isn’t a horror film. And for that entire time, it isn’t a horror film. It’s a straight drama without any horror in sight. Then, lo and behold, it rather abruptly turns into a […]
I was the only person in the theater for this movie. Since I started going to the movies every week in August 2014, this is only the third time that that’s happened (the other two such cases being Tusk and The Disappointments Room). I only first heard of this film last week when I […]
The phrase “so bad it’s good” has become overused and I try to avoid it, but it absolutely applies in this case. Wish Upon is comedic gold. That is somewhat problematic because it’s a horror film, but this thing is just too damn funny. I went into this expecting to hate it because of […]
A Cure for Wellness is Gore Verbinski’s first horror film since The Ring in 2002, and he was apparently so excited by the opportunity that he filmed nearly two horror movies’ worth of material. This movie is long. It is way, way too damn long. This would have been great as a 30-minute episode […]
The original Alien is one of the greatest horror films ever made. Aliens is one of the best sequels ever made. Then they made more movies that ranged from awful to merely forgettable. Alien: Covenant falls into the merely forgettable category. It is not an awful movie. But considering that the idea of Ridley […]
It’s January and that means it’s time for an awful horror movie. This year’s incarnation of that oddly persistent tradition comes in the form of The Bye Bye Man, a film so nonsensical that even its own writers don’t seem to understand how its villain works. The Bye Bye Man is basically a […]
Annabelle is the prequel to The Conjuring that explains the origin of the evil doll. Annabelle: Creation is the prequel to Annabelle that explains the origin of the evil doll. So right off the bat, this thing just exudes necessity. I have been searching through the encyclopedia of film knowledge in my head and […]
I’ve been looking forward to The Belko Experiment for awhile. The trailers promised some great actors in an absurd plot (summarized in the trailer quite nicely as “Battle Royale meets Office Space”) that looked like the kind of violent exploitation flick that rarely makes it to theaters anymore. In other words, it looked right […]
Life sucks. Now that I’ve gotten that obvious line out of the way, let’s get something else out of the way: Life is an Alien ripoff. A damn blatant one too. Now, I’m not particularly averse to ripoffs. I love slasher movies and they are all ripoffs of Black Christmas. I rented many […]