I love a good haunted house film — the genre is my ghost loving horror fan addiction. But as rich...
Although most are familiar with the “La Llorona” legend, this latest adaptation is a fresh take that tackles the complicated...
In Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie in 2000 there were hints that a particularly creative filmmaker could use the mutant mayhem to make a horror movie. From Magneto discovering his powers when separated his parents in a Concentration Camp, to Rogue practically killing her boyfriend when her energy-sucking powers emerge,...
[Making a Monster] How Filmmaking Frustrations Yielded Clive Barker’s “Super-Butchers” in HELLRAISER
“What’s in the box?!” As it turns out, there are much worse things to find in there than Gwyneth Paltrow’s...
The “us versus them” mentality is well and alive in Get Duked!, an effervescent gem from across the pond. Originally titled Boyz...
The stakes have never been higher for Bill & Ted than they are in Bill & Ted Face The Music. Sure, they’ve conquered death and graduated high school (two things no one ever thought they would do), but this is the big leagues now and people are depending on them. They both...
Movies are sometimes more than they claim to be. In the case of M. J. Bassett’s Rogue — what is...
The uncomfortable silence of an awkward pause, the suspicion that someone might be talking about you when you leave the...
Being a teenager almost always feels like an inescapable curse, but the 17-year-old girl at the center of Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is the living embodiment of evil. She may walk and talk like the rest of us but she breathes smoke and death followers wherever she...
Natasha Kermani and Brea Grant’s Lucky enters familiar territory while also breaking new ground. On top of work troubles, author...
Guess who’s coming to dinner? It’s not Sidney Poitier. No, it’s some no-good punk with a weird haircut, who will...
The law is intended to maintain order and protect civil liberties. It may not always work out that way, but there is at least a process in place to give us some peace of mind. Supposing ordinary law is suddenly superseded by something far more restrictive and absolute — what...