From South Korea comes this macabre story about an inept policeman in a small village who must solve a series of strange murders to save his young daughter. It starts out innocently enough as the main character Jong-goo is a small town cop who is comically bad at his job and severely unprepared for what is about to unfold. After some unexplained murders, Jong-goo's…
The original concept of Final Destination in 2000 was something new in the teen horror sub genre that started with Scream in 1996. The premise was simple enough: a high school kid on a plane has a premonition about the plane's fiery fate and all the people who exit the plane are then marked for death. Something something, you can't cheat death. Almost a…
I knew absolutely nothing about this movie going into it other than it was on Netflix. Sometimes it is good to go into a story with a blank slate, because then you can be a little more forgiving if things go off the rails. It's mostly in Italian about a group of people car pooling in an RV who get into an accident and…
Ah, yes, teen horror from the late 90s. What started with Scream in 1996 eventually devolved into a formulaic wasteland of 30-something actors pretending to be teenagers. This one is the sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Even worse than the predictable plot was the reuse of the “Come and get me! I’m right here!” line as…
When animals attack! This is a fun sub-genre of horror, where they take a type of animal and make it bigger, scarier, and more dangerous than than animal would be in real life. Jaws, Cujo, Anaconda, and Piranha are a few examples. It's often very effective as there tends to be natural fears of these animals already. Razorback is an Australian movie about a…
It's like Slender Man meets Candyman without the hook and the bees. The supernatural elements are there, but the story is kind of a mess. The movie starts with 4 hikers in some remote foreign country. One of them falls into a crevice that opens to a cave with a strange statuesque alien-looking skeleton. The hiker starts acting strange like he's possessed by some…
Dario Argento's Suspiria is a classic horror movie and a must-see for anyone who likes Italian horror. I surprised myself by not having reviewed the movie yet. It should not have taken 12+ years and over 300 movies to get to this one. The story is simple: Suzy is an American dance student who travels to Germany to study at a prestigious German ballet…
This is one of those strange movies that no one seems to remember watching and sounds rather boring, but is actually quite good when you give it a chance. Christopher Walken plays a teacher named Johnny Smith who spends 5 years in a coma after a bad car accident. Upon waking up, Johnny has clairvoyant powers but can barely walk. When he touches someone's…
Watching as many horror movies as I have, it is pretty rare for me to yell at the characters or kick at the TV screen. A Quiet Place Part II had me doing both a lot more than I care to admit. The movie started with a little bit of back story surrounding the Abbott family right before the blind alien creatures arrived and…
Something dangerous and radioactive is living under New York City. They are the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers! Also known as mutant people who grab normal people from the streets and bring them underground to feast on them. This is a cult classic starring John Heard as a photographer and Daniel Stern who works at a homeless shelter. They uncover the dangerous C.H.U.D.s and try…
