Checked out Tales of Halloween on iTunes streaming (new release, limited theatrical). This is an anthology of Halloween-themed horror shorts. I wish I could say I liked it – there are ten movies so there’s plenty of chances to find a … Continue reading
The Green Inferno is a much-delayed Eli Roth horror film in the cannibal tribe sub-genre. It’s about a bunch of annoying college students who travel to Chile to save an indigenous tribe from a logging company, wound up captured by … Continue reading
Checked out the limited release/digital rental horror comedy Cooties. In this flick, contaminated chicken nuggets cause 4th graders to go crazy, scratching their school chums, and they all turn on the teachers and eat them. Yes, elementary school zombies. It … Continue reading
The new film The Visit is a new horror flick from M. Night Shyamalan who made three good to great movies (6th Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable) and then proceeded to make a series of bad to terrible movies (The Village, … Continue reading
Also caught Sinister 2, the sequel to a decent spook house flick from a few years back that starred Ethan Hawke. The main takeaway I had from this sequel is that you really needed to see the first one for … Continue reading
Final Girl is an odd horror/suspense film that has the DNA of similar films in it but doesn’t seem to know how to be that film. Basic premise is that a girl is recruited and trained all her life to … Continue reading
The Gallows is a terrible found footage (sigh – again?) movie made for a buck. It’s about a high school putting on a play called The Gallows which, when staged 20 years earlier, had a tragedy (one of the actors … Continue reading
Jurassic World is a fine movie as far as monster movies go. It’d be the second best movie in the franchise if The Lost World hadn’t been directed by Spielberg, a man with more talent even when he’s half-assing a … Continue reading
Insidious: Chapter 3 is 50% of a pretty great horror spook show flick that’s filled with good characters played by appealing actors, moody scenes, and believable and quality dialog. This was easily better than the previous two films. I was … Continue reading
The Nightmare is a new documentary film about sleep paralysis, the sleep disorder where you are just falling asleep or just waking up and you are completely conscious but your body is paralyzed (due to sleep chemicals) and your mind … Continue reading