The Legend of La Llorona is another attempt to mine Mexican folklore for all the money it’s worth. And, once again, we’re casting clueless white folk to get spooked by the Mexican spook. I guess those gringos just don’t believe … Continue reading
The mind boggles, but there are over thirty movies in the Amityville series (though only eight in the original official franchise) and most of the recent ones look… suspect. I’ve only seen about ten of these things so maybe I’m … Continue reading
Two is a horror flick made by someone who probably saw The Human Centipede and thought he could do a better job. Only less ambitious because it’s only two people sewn together (is that progress? I don’t know). Two strangers … Continue reading
I confess to totally rating this reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise on an unfair curve. As a stand-alone horror film, it’s not so good. It has real problems but isn’t exactly a disaster. As a Resident Evil movie … Continue reading
Black Friday is somewhat mediocre but not a total loss as a horror comedy. It almost gets over the hump into good territory but is held back by clumsy and sluggish editing that kills the pace when it needs be … Continue reading
Double Walker is a new dreamlike supernatural film about a little girl who dies and comes back to haunt the living as a pale young woman. She may or may not have made a deal with mysterious figures who asked … Continue reading
The Deep House is about a couple of YouTubers who travel to a lake in France to film a house that was submerged when the area was flooded. They SCUBA down to the house with their submersible camera and before … Continue reading
This latest iteration of the Paranormal Activity franchise (premiering on Paramount+) doesn’t feel like it belongs to the series. It feels like a separate found footage film that they slapped the name onto. It doesn’t have any of the trademarks … Continue reading
This anthology has six short films (and no frame story, thankfully) filmed by and starring African Americans. It’s a Shudder spin-off to the Black Noire documentary from a few years ago. That doc promoted the history of black people in … Continue reading
The only thing I knew about Last Night in Soho was that it was directed by Edgar Wright and it was classified as horror. I went in blind and I was met with something that was aggressively not a horror … Continue reading