The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ Nope is a bit of a departure for director Jordan Peele in that it emphasizes a Spielberg-esque sense of fun over beating you over the head with social messages. I’m sure that there are social messages in this movie, but they are much easier to ignore if you are looking […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A The Black Phone is my favorite movie of 2022 so far and a reminder that horror is my favorite genre despite how much I hate most modern horror films. Based on a short story by Joe Hill (aka Stephen King’s son), this is the most original horror movie that I’ve […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D Alex Garland directed two of my favorite films of recent years, Ex Machina and Annihilation, so I had high hopes for his latest effort, Men. Sure, the trailers weren’t particularly inspiring and the title warns of identity politic bullshit, but I still had faith in the man. Unfortunately, that faith was […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D- I never thought that I could be this irritated by the remake of such a mediocre movie, but here we are. Firestarter is based on the 1980 novel by Stephen King, which is one of the few 80s King novels that I haven’t read. I have seen the original film […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F If saying that absolutely nothing happens in a movie is considered a spoiler, then I am about to spoil the shit of out Umma. This film broke new ground for me, as it actually showed me something that I’ve never encountered before in the thousands and thousands of horror films […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- Director Ti West was hailed as the next great horror director when he burst onto the scene in 2009 with The House of the Devil (which I think is overrated) and then in 2011 with The Innkeepers (which I think is underrated). For whatever reason, he largely disappeared from the […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C I was quite surprised when I did my weekly check on the listings at my local movie theater and discovered a horror movie that I had never heard of before. Considering my daily visits to multiple horror news websites, it’s rare that a horror flick manages to sneak into 1,600 […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C I love the original Scream. It has become somewhat fashionable in film circles to hate that movie, but I think that the backlash has more to do with all of the crap that was inspired by Scream rather than the film itself. Sure, we got a lot of terrible teen […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is easily the best Resident Evil movie. Sure, that’s a pretty frigging low bar for a series that went six movies without even getting the genre of its source material right. And sure, this thing is far from perfect. The plot is sometimes borderline […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I went into Antlers expecting a generic monster movie. I was not expecting a serious drama about child abuse that also happened to include a creature from Native American folklore. Perhaps I should have known better since this is from the director of Black Mass and Hostiles, but I was […]