So the first January movie of 2020 is your typical toss-it-into-theaters-and-run low expectation horror movie The Grudge. This is (surprisingly) a sequel to the 2014 Sarah Michelle Gellar remake of the Japanese film Ju-On. And everyone is writing it off… … Continue reading
Caught an early Thursday screening of Doctor Sleep, the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel and sequel to The Shining. The book is a sequel to King’s own novel and this new film is both a sequel to King’s book and … Continue reading
Checked out the new Netflix horror movie Eli. This is a weird combination of sub-genres in horror movies and that kind of makes it interesting. Eli is about a child who is allergic to everything so lives in a … Continue reading
Annabelle Comes Home is the third Annabelle movie about the cursed/haunted/creepy doll. It’s also the eighth movie in the shared Conjuring cinematic universe and cameos Ed and Lorraine Warren (from the two main Conjuring films) as played by Patrick Wilson … Continue reading
Also saw the new horror film The Curse of La Llorona. This is a film about a Mexican myth – the Crying Woman – and is partially being targeted at the Hispanic community who are a not-insignificant box office audience … Continue reading
Hereditary is a new horror film that has gotten a lot of positive buzz from festivals and critics. I saw the movie tonight and I think it’s a lot of overrated hooey for a movie that’s trying too hard and … Continue reading
So, based on the recommendation, I watched a 1992 BBC produced Halloween special Ghostwatch. Playing like a real news investigation with at least some British news people, it tells the story of a haunted house, allegedly in real-time. The film … Continue reading
Winchester is the new movie based on the interesting story of the Winchester house in California. The house is a real place that the window Winchester had, over many years, built full of stairs to nowhere, blind hallways, etc. It’s … Continue reading
Rented a movie on iTunes you know will be good: Amityville: The Awakening. Because we all need a little more Amityville Horror in our lives since, what? There are only about ten of these movies now? So many movies, the … Continue reading
So they went and remade the movie Flatliners… which, if you have to remake a movie, that’s a good one. The original Flatliners was a better idea than it was a film. Both movies have the same plot – medical … Continue reading