Oct
09
House of Spoils
As a film about a chef trying her best to succeed, this is a good film. As a spooky film about a chef in a haunted kitchen, it’s a little less so. As a story that eventually leans into a … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Horror
Oct
07
Hold Your Breath
Hold Your Breath is a generic title for a movie with an interesting, unique, and rarely mentioned time in American history… and with (the potential for) a unique villain <glances suspiciously at the dust I haven’t cleaned off my tv … Continue reading
Oct
05
Platform 2, The
For the first half of Platform 2, I was wondering what all the negativity was about. I kind of loved the first film for its simple social metaphor. It was a Twilight Zone / Black Mirror type message film but … Continue reading
Oct
04
Salem’s Lot (2024)
I read Salem’s Lot back in the 80s or 90s. It’s very early Stephen King and I guess it wasn’t bad, but it was kind of unmemorable too. In fact, it’s so unmemorable, I totally forgot there was a 3 … Continue reading
Oct
03
Apartment 7A
Apartment 7A is a moribund waste of time. Ironically, if it were just a straight up remake of Rosemary’s Baby, it’d have been more watchable. But instead they base it on some irrelevant backstory and then proceed to basically tell … Continue reading
Oct
03
Monster Summer
The biggest problem with Monster Summer isn’t that it’s a children’s horror movie, it’s the misleading advertising. This isn’t a movie about monsters at all… no werewolves, no creatures from black lagoons, no Frankenstein’s whatever, not even a particularly nasty … Continue reading
Oct
02
Azrael
They can’t fool me… Azrael is the name of a cat. But maybe this flick has a deep backstory where Smurf-loving parents named their first born daughter after an evil cat? Maybe… but that assumes this frickin’ movie has a … Continue reading
Sep
29
Tiger Stripes
Hell is a tween girl, I guess? Or, better yet, Hello God, It’s Me Zafreen (and my demon buddy). I mean, beware the girl in class who gets her period first… she’s probably possesed by SATAN! Tiger Stripes is about … Continue reading
Sep
27
Here After
Here After is a morose, ponderous sink into gloomy filmmaking that thinks its profound and original but is neither. It’s about a mother with a teenage daughter who dies for twenty minutes and then miraculously recovers. But is who comes … Continue reading
Sep
20
Never Let Go
To be fair, Never Let Go is probably more a victim of how many times I’ve seen this exact premise over the past few years. But, that said, maybe they don’t have to regurgitate the same gimmick over and over … Continue reading