‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (2014) stretches out one funny joke
Movie review: The movie stretches one joke as far as it can go. Until the TV series.
Horror Movies
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (2014) stretches out one funny joke
A second opinion: ‘Us’ is a boring piece of beautiful arthouse horror (Movie review)
Writer-director Jordan Peele’s “Us” reminds me of Alex Garland’s “Annihilation” (2018). Both are followups to a breakthrough piece of chilling sci-fi/horror that I and everybody else loved – “Get Out” (2017) in Peele’s case and […]
‘The Perfection’ isn’t what you think it is, but it’s still a clever little horror gem (Movie review)
“The Perfection” (Netflix) has one of those trailers that seems to give away the whole movie, so after making the mistake of watching the trailer, I let it fade from my mind a bit before […]
‘Happy Death Day 2U’ wrings more fun out of ‘repeated day’ premise with clever genre-hop (Movie review)
It’s accurate to call “Happy Death Day 2U” a dumb movie, and accurate to call it a smart movie. It seems as if Blumhouse studio asked writer-director Christopher Landon (who also directed the 2017 original, […]
‘Us’ – Jordan Peele’s followup to ‘Get Out’ – is chilling, weird and fresh (Movie review)
Writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest horror offering, “Us” – which hits digital June 4 and disc June 18 — opens on a seemingly endless wall of caged rabbits, a promise of future symbolism. The slow and […]
Aronofsky’s ‘Mother!’ (2017) is bizarre, off-putting
Movie review: This piece of psych-horror is bizarre and disturbing, but not in a good way.
Summer movies 2019: After watching the trailers, I’m excited for some of these films, not so much for others (Commentary)
I watched the trailers of some notable summer movies so you don’t have to (but they are embedded here if you want to). Here are my thoughts on each, along with a “Go Bananas” Level (on […]
‘He’s Out There’ is a decently scary lake-cabin stalker thriller, but not a unique one (Movie review)
Similar to the two “Strangers” films, “He’s Out There” (2018, now on Netflix) strips the horror genre down to basics and tells a scary story of people in random peril at a remote cabin. It […]
‘The Devil’s Candy’ (2015) is heavy-metal horror
Movie review: Shiri Appleby and Ethan Embry star in this heavy-metal horror thriller.