Michael Myers is back. Again. I'm starting to feel like this is Groundhog Day with horror movies. This is the sequel to Halloween (2018), where Jamie Lee Curtis came back to finish off Michael once and for all. Spoiler alert: she failed. In this movie, Michael escapes from the burning house trap and goes right back to killing everyone in sight including the beefcake…
Remake alert! Wait, whoa. I was not prepared for this one. I really liked the original Wrong Turn back in 2003. It came out of nowhere and was kind of a spiritual sister to Deliverance. Plus, Eliza Dushku is awesome. Given that my expectations were so low, this new one ended up being rather enjoyable, specifically because it doesn't try to do a beat-by-beat…
This is the fourth movie in this series of anthologies. It starts with a SWAT team doing a drug bust in 1994 and finding horrific stuff in a warehouse. As they come across various TVs, the narrative shifts to what is playing on the TV and each one has its own frightening short story. There is one about a rat man living in the…
This movie should have been called Vampires on a Plane. It could have also benefited from some Samuel L. Jackson. Nadja and her son, Elias, board a long flight from Europe to New York when the plane is hijacked for some elaborate theft or something. The mother is actually a vampire that goes full savage when she can't take her vampire-suppression medicine. Anyone she…
This is a remake of the 1981 slasher of the same name, except this one is in 3D! Things come out of the screen at your face even when you don't have 3D glasses, which you shouldn't wear, because they make you look like an idiot. After a mining accident, the lone survivor, Harry Warden, wakes up from a coma and goes on a…
If you like the horror comedy genre, this one is a lot of fun. It's like Last Action Hero meets Friday the 13th with jokes and gags thrown in. Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her group of friends go to a Camp Blood movie double-feature and are magically transported inside the movie when trying to escape a theater fire. More than seeing the film from…
I will be honest. I don't know what the hell was going on in this movie. It's like the Pulp Fiction of horror movies, but I just couldn't keep the non-linear story straight. Maybe I need to watch the American remake with Buffy, so that it's dumbed down for my stupid American brain. Rika is the main character who is sent to take care…
From the mind behind Re-Animator comes Castle Freak. Writer/Director Stuart Gordon tells the story of a family who inherits a castle in Italy. They travel there to stay at the castle while they figure out what to do with it. It turns out there is a scary freak monster that lives in the dungeon under the castle. The father of the family is played…
It was 1980 and along came Sean S. Cunningham to revolutionize the horror genre and really cement slasher movies for the following decade. At the time, it was shocking and graphic, and surprisingly well done for a budget of $550k. The story is simple: it's summer camp time and the camp counselors of Camp Crystal Lake get more than they bargained for as they…
Christina is a journalist who wakes up bound in a little hut in Mexico after searching for demons in a remote cave called La Boca. The people who kidnapped her are trying to exorcise a demon out of her that she picked up in the cave. Of course, she doesn't think she is possessed by a demon, at first. But that's what they always…
