Though The Strangers: Prey At Night may be just as sadistic as its predecessor, it fell victim to the horror movie...
Is there anything more terrifying to a teen girl than coming into adulthood? I think not. Cinema has often used...
Mary Shelley, Haifaa Al-Mansour’s new biopic focusing on the life of Frankenstein‘s creator, is a bit like the titular writer’s famous monster. It is awkwardly stitched together. It stumbles along unnaturally. All the pieces of a real life are there, the problem is that it doesn’t exactly come through. I’ll start...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney...
Happy Easter, fiends! Whether or not you celebrate the holiday, I think we can all agree on one thing: bunnies...
Let me be perfectly honest. I don’t know how to review Come to Daddy. It’s not that the Tribeca Film Festival selection directed by Ant Timpson isn’t good, quite the opposite. Watching Come to Daddy moved me, scared me, grossed me out and delighted me more than anything I’ve watched...
Monster movies are never just one thing. Night of the Living Dead isn’t just about zombies, it’s about prejudices rooted deeply into...
James Gunn loves superheroes. Even before he took the helm of the wildly popular Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, Gunn...
Which came first, Jaws or the summer monster movie? Of course, a film historian would point out that Jaws was the first really big monster movie intended for warm weather and drive-ins, but haven’t we known that long before 1975? There’s something so natural, so right about watching Human Vs....
There were a lot of reasons to be excited for season three of Stranger Things. But don’t for a second...
Out of all the horror films I’ve seen this year, my favorite opening shot came from Ready or Not. It’s...
There are good reasons moviegoers are wary of CGI. If it’s not done well, it can be distracting. Even when it is, it runs the risk of becoming the point of the movie, overriding honest character reactions for what looks coolest in slow-mo. But every once in a while, there’s...