The 2015 remake of the classic spook house film Poltergeist opened this weekend and, like most fans of the origin, I asked why? But the trailers were decent and it’s not like i wasn’t gonna see it anyway… but should … Continue reading
To my surprise, the new indie/horror/art house/Schwarzenegger flick Maggie showed up on Apple TV/iTunes streaming (it is also in limited theatrical release). Maggie is, indeed, a small indie movie with art house desires… a contemplative, slow-paced, methodical sad story about … Continue reading
Unfriended is a new horror flick shot completely from the perspective of a single computer screen during an 82 minute Skype video chat (with the additional appearance of YouTube, Facebook, ChatRoulette, Spotify, and other software and services). It’s the one … Continue reading
It Follows is a new indie horror flick (out at the theaters) with a theme you’ve heard before: have sex, get stalked and killed by something that.. well.. follows… Basically, if a person is being followed, he or she can … Continue reading
The new film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is certainly a curios thing. It’s an American/Iranian black and white vampire romance (in Farsi subtitled in English) set in a dying industrial city in maybe-Iran? Maybe not? The city … Continue reading
April Apocalypse is an attempt to make a high school teen romantic zombie comedy that fails. First off, every actor is clearly 10 years too old for their parts, the writing is just not good, and there’s no surprises, no … Continue reading
The Lazarus Effect is a horror flick about a bunch of scientists who unwisely decide to create a serum to bring people back from the dead. Unwise, but since they had never seen Re-Animator (or Flatliners), they go ahead and … Continue reading
Watched the movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead on iTunes Streaming – it’s billed Mad Max meets zombies and I guess it’s that though not as much as they’d like to think. It’s largely a generic zombie movie set in … Continue reading
Caught (on streaming) the pitch black comedy / horror (thing) The Voices… starring Ryan Reynolds as a deranged bath tub packager who is so far off his meds he kind of accidentally starts killing people… ok… fine, sometimes his asshole … Continue reading
I caught the film Rec 4 – the fourth in the Spanish and Spanish-language zombie horror flicks (the first of which was remade in the US as Quarantine). I’m actually surprised to say that I rather liked this new film… … Continue reading