I have always liked David Cronenberg, but his movies are often hit or miss. He’s a great idea man, and he’s a great filmmaker. He’s not always the greatest storyteller. The Shrouds is about a man named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) who is still dealing with grief from the death of his wife. The movie is set in the near future where technology lets people…
It’s got Willem Dafoe! Need I say more? Well, yeah, because the word count isn’t high enough yet. We have another rebake of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, which was loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This movie updates all previous remakes with improved visuals and an all-star cast including Dafoe, Bill Skarsgard as Count Orlok, Lily-Rose Depp, and Nicolas…
Andy and his blind sister, Piper, are placed in a home with Laura after their dad dies unexpectedly. Laura is already caring for a mute boy named Ollie, and both of them are more than a tad quirky. Maybe “nucking futs” is more appropriate. It is revealed that Laura’s blind daughter drowned in their swimming pool, and Piper fills the void for Laura. Of…
Sophie Thatcher portrays Iris, a simple woman in love with boring everyman Josh, played by Jack Quaid. The two take a weekend getaway vacation to a secluded mansion to hang with some friends. Things take a deadly turn when Iris slices and dices one of Josh’s friends who attempts to sexually assault her. The plot thickens, because Iris is actually a robot companion (read:…
Danielle Deadwyler plays Ramona, a woman who recently lost her husband in a car accident and is left to take care of their two children on a large farm somewhere in rural America. On top of a crushing mortgage and the power being shut off, Ramona’s leg is still jacked up from the accident. After the family has woken up, had some breakfast, and…
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, comes this uniquely gimmicky film about a family that moves into a house with a ghost. This is portrayed using a first-person wide angle camera view that moves around the house following characters and being a nosey nelly. When the ghost manifests in the physical realm to messy up one of the teenager's rooms, the frightened family calls in a…
I love me some Julia Garner. In this film, she plays the wife of Blake (Christopher Abbott), who turns into a werewolf after being scratched by another werewolf in rural Oregon. It’s the classic “good guy becomes the monster” type of flick. The film started in a wonderful way of setting up the main character as a kid hunting with his dad in the…
A young couple (Alison Brie and Dave Franco) moves into a house in a remote small town. While on a hike in the woods, they fall into a hole that opens up to what looks like a cave with a lot of weird shit in it. They drink some water from a small pool and after getting out of the cave the next morning,…
It’s another rebake of a barely passable horror film franchise. The first film that started it all in 1997 was marginally OK in the sense that it had a great cast, serviceable premise, and managed to clean up the box office as a teen horror Scream clone. It then spawned some shit sequels and a TV series. There’s just not enough of a story…
This is one of those surprising entries in a franchise that more or less went stale from overuse of the formula. You know the one: the main character has a premonition about dying in some horrific way, cheats impending death, then must spend the rest of the film trying not to die in elaborate Rube Goldberg-inspired freak accidents. Well, that formula is still here,…
