I wasn’t expecting a part 5 of the Insidious franchise nor was I expecting it to be a sequel to part 2, mostly ignoring the events of parts 3 and 4. Not that continuity and cannon are all that critical … Continue reading
I’m mixed on this mixed bag “horror” movie. On the one hand, it’s often effectively moody… but not as the horror movie it sells itself as. But it’s also campy and I’m not sure if it knows it is. I … Continue reading
This was my second attempt to see this flick in the theaters. The first time, my lousy theater had the bulb brightness turned down so I could barely see the black actor’s faces in the opening scene (and a movie … Continue reading
To misappropriate a tropey review flourish, The Babadook walked so Run Rabbit Run could crawl. Not that Run Rabbit Run has a monster in the cellar (though it would have benefited from one) but it does have a similar frazzled … Continue reading
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is a movie with a great title and and even greater ambitions. It brushes up against something really interesting and cool but it doesn’t have the follow-through to make it really special. The … Continue reading
Malum is one of those movies where a lot happens but probably none of it is real. This kind of ambiguity often doesn’t work for me and that’s the case with this sometimes creepy flick. It’s about a cop who … Continue reading
When is a killer shark movie not a killer shark movie? It’s not when they hide the shark for most of the runtime… there have been killer shark movies that hide their terrible visuals and it’s still a killer shark … Continue reading
The Boogeyman doesn’t make a strong case for itself in the originality department. A child being harassed by the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head? You don’t say. There have been so many movies like this… … Continue reading
What a shock. The movie that sounds like cheap, greedy, trashy exploitation of a lapsed copyright is cheap, greedy trashy exploitation. But the jokes on me since their $2 horror flick got cash money from the rubes that they knew … Continue reading
Tin & Tina is a Spanish creepy kids horror flick that border on satire. It’s about a young couple who decide to adopt two of the oddest and most off-putting children imaginable. They are so odd and off-putting, their school … Continue reading