It all started with a death in the family. Toni Collette plays Annie, the mother of two kids and the wife of Gabriel Byrne. She makes miniature models for a living in her home workshop. When her mother passes away, she struggles with the loss but lacks grief due to her difficult past relationship.  When Annie’s daughter, Charlie, dies in a freak accident, the…

I thought this was a documentary about Conan O’Brien’s life story. How wrong I was. David Dastmalachian is my favorite actor who is just barely memorable. I don’t mean that in a disparaging way. He’s really great, but there is something about him that is hard to remember. Maybe it is his hard-to-pronounce-and-or-spell last name. Maybe it is because he often plays smaller background…

Sydney Sweeney plays Cecilia, an American nun who goes to work at a convent in Italy. While getting settled as the outsider who can't be bothered to learn even basic Italian, she abruptly becomes pregnant without conception. Turns out a geneticist priest uses DNA material from some old metal spike that they think was used in Jesus’ crucifixion. I didn’t think this movie would…

Two brothers become entangled in a frightening demonic take over they can’t possibly understand. The film takes place in Argentina in both rural and urban locations. It’s like The Exorcist, Evil Dead, and Night of the Living Dead rolled into one, but in very subtle ways.  There is an ongoing sense of dread and danger. At times, you let your guard down, and that’s…

This Turkish language film follows a group of police officers as they are sucked into a horrific cult world with no escape.  There is nice atmospheric tension building as we get to know the five policemen during dinner and story time at a restaurant. On the way out, the officers receive a call to aid another police unit in a nearby town. On the…

I think it should be fairly obvious not to mess with evil spirits. Definitely don't get all hand-holdy with a cursed hand. Since common sense went out the damn door a long time ago, it needs to be stated, like a warning label on a pack of cigarettes: DON'T MESS WITH EVIL SPIRITS, PEOPLE! Mia and her friend Jade are just a couple of…

A boy named Peter starts hearing things behind his bedroom wall. His parents are not helpful when they dismiss his concerns as an exaggerated imagination. His teacher thinks there might be something wrong, but is unable to help him without evidence. As the parents become more unhinged, Peter is psychologically abused and starts listening to the voice in the wall to do bad things…

A group of college friends do an informal tarot card reading session at a rental house and then start dying in strange ways associated with their tarot card draws. It sounds interesting, but be warned: it only sounds that way.  As the movie progresses, the friends start dying one at a time at the hands of creepy tarot card creatures come to life. The…

This is the fourth in the Hellraiser franchise, which attempts to shed light on the origin of the puzzle box in the late 1700s in France where a sadistic aristocrat commissions a toymaker to construct the puzzle box to open a gateway to hell. The story actually starts on a space station in the 2100s, when the descendant of the toymaker dude is caught…

This one was delicious in a way I have not seen for awhile. Imagine seeing the events of a Friday the 13th style movie from the perspective of Jason Voorhees. When a group of campers take a locket, a zombie corpse killer comes to life to seek revenge and reclaim said locket. All the stalking and killing is from the view of the killer,…