What I wanted was a stylish late 70s vampire film. What I got was a boring ass fake vampire film about a mind-controlling cult. I don't mind the premise of a woman, Kate, being kidnapped to force her into The Brotherhood cult of drinking blood and wearing fake vampire teeth. It could have made that a mystery where you weren’t sure if they were…
I’m at a loss for words. This is like Napoleon Dynamite on steroids. It’s the most extreme, over-the-top, absurd, surreal movie with too much of everything. If I had to describe it with only one word, it would be “gratuitous.” I’d say this is more comedy than horror. I’d also have to say that if there is a maximum fake penis amount for a…
Yet another retelling of the Dracula story from acclaimed French director Luc Besson. For about $50 million dollars, he can pretend he's Francis Ford Coppola and it's 1992. This doesn't have Keanu Reeves, though, so it's doomed to fail. It does have Caleb Landry Jones and Christoph Waltz with a score by Danny Elfman. So there's that, but that's not always enough. Does it…
This is a simple one location, minimal cast, Australian psychological horror film that works well at creating a tense scenario for most of the film. The plot centers around Patrick, a middle-aged man who lives alone in his trailer. On a dark and stormy night, a young woman knocks on the door asking for a ride. The storm won’t let up and the woman…
Whatever horror “magic” was found in the first film to warrant two sequels is wearing pretty thin in this third installment. Art the Clown is back again after being decapitated in the second film. Due to some clever demonic shenanigans, it seems that Art and one of his first victims, Victoria, cannot die. The gruesome twosome make their way through the thinly veiled plot…
This is one of those movies that was worth every minute of screentime, yet you don’t ever really need to see it again. It’s a psychological horror thriller that gets progressively uncomfortable as you watch it. While on vacation in Italy, an American couple (Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis) and their daughter meet a friendly British couple (James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi) and their…
Da boogeyman is gonna get ya! Patrick (Sam Clafin) is haunted by his past, having encountered the Bagman as a boy. Now, in adulthood, Patrick must protect his wife and young child from the shadowy menace. There were some great spooky scenes that effectively balanced visuals and sound. I liked that they kept the Bagman pretty well concealed until the very end. They knew…
Who doesn’t like an extraterrestrial spider creature feature? After a meteoric spider egg lands in an apartment building, the little alien spider grows at a fast rate and must eat increasingly larger things. While it will never be as good as the likes of Arachnaphobia or Tremors, it executes the monster movie formula with near perfect precision. The characters matter as much as they…
This is an adaptation of the Stephen King novel about vampires taking over a small town. I can say with confidence that it is quite a bit better than the cheeseball late 70s TV miniseries. Warner Bros did this one dirty by not giving it a chance at a theatrical run and instead opting for pushing to Max streaming service instead. Lewis Pullman plays…
This is the right level of weird. It stars Georgina Campbell as Jenny Lennon, a park ranger who works in the backcountry. Things start to get creepy when she helps rescue a camper and then loses all grasp on reality. Or is she somewhere else? I loved the slow pace and scenes that just breathed nature. I appreciated how there were moments of just…
