It's like a horror fairy tale primarily about the Little Red Riding Hood. The main character, Rosaleen, is shown to be dreaming in the present day as herself playing a character in a far off land of make believe that has a lot of werewolves doing bad things. In many ways, the movie plays like a made-for-TV special with a mix of A-list actors…
I thought this was going to be a remake of the 1980 movie of the same name, but then I learned it was an adaptation of a Stephen King short story about a family being haunted by a supernatural entity. As usual, the King story framework manages to lay the foundation for a creepy tale executed with precision. Sadie Harper, played by Sophie Thatcher…
Does it end, though? Does it really? They keep making these movies and I don’t think they know what the word actually means. It never ends! I don’t know if it was because Halloween Kills was kind of awful or I was caught completely off guard, but this movie really amazed me. I am not going to say it was the best thing ever,…
Will someone please tell these people to stop going down dark passageways without proper lighting and backup? This is America and you should be packing heat when you go into the basement. I'm not going to go into details here, because the movie is best observed through an unspoiled lens. I will say that this is a masterfully crafted horror film with the perfect…
Pure horror bliss. When a young couple moves to Romania for Francis’ job opportunity, Julia starts to lose it when she thinks a neighbor is watching and stalking her. Is she in danger or just paranoid? Francis is the idiot husband who works long hours and doesn’t believe Julia is a target. As the audience, we’re on Julia’s side, but it’s not always clear…
It’s bonkers how this movie has passed me by all these years. David Cronenberg wrote and directed this nightmare of a film about a father, Frank, who is trying to protect his daughter from the mentally ill wife/mother, Nola. Everything seems pretty normal until the impish deformed children show up and it is revealed that they are the demon spawn manifestations of Nola’s anger.…
This fourth installment of the barely popular Amityville Horror franchise was a made-for-TV movie. It centers on a demonic possessed lamp originally from the Amityville house that causes haunting shenanigans for a family that just moved in with the Golden Girls. This probably should have been a comedy. For a made-for-TV movie, it’s not too bad. It’s not too good either. How hard is…
It’s damn near impossible to follow in the footsteps of Jeff Goldblum as his son, but Eric Stoltz did ok. He gives the right level of oddball stiffness to make it work. I mean, sure, you still want to punch his face (always), but he has the range to play a 5-year-old genetic abnormality genius as well as a nasty, falling apart fly monster.…
You can’t ever go wrong when the cast includes Seth Green and Clint Howard. Add in some giant mutated tick creatures gooping around and sucking blood from anything that has a pulse. This is an awful early 90s “when animals attack” creature horror flick, but I still kind of enjoyed it for its absurdity. It doesn’t quite have the horror/comedy balance of Army of…
I’m a simple man who likes simple things. Give me a good story with good characters and throw in some Ethan Hawke and I’m there. This is very close to modern horror perfection in that it’s an interesting story with realistic elements that in some ways echoes the spookier side of The Silence of the Lambs. With hints of the supernatural, it never gets…
