Directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz could be on their way to a thematic trilogy with The Lodge, their follow-up to 2014’s Goodnight Mommy that feels...
I’m not sure what, exactly, I expected of Jennifer Kent‘s follow-up to The Babadook – but The Nightingale wasn’t it. A weighty revenge thriller set in,...
We open with a picturesque scene: a family picnicking on a beautiful day. A towheaded boy walks toward his parents, smiling in the sunshine, when he...
As the credits roll on Sator, audience members might note that under Jordan Graham’s name, there’s an entire paragraph of responsibilities listed. Writer, director, producer, cinematographer,...
Horror comedies are tricky, and horror anthologies are tricky. Horror-comedy anthologies, then, make for an extra thorny endeavor, one with booby traps around every corner. Is...
Kiersey Clemons‘ Jenn drags herself onto a remote island, shipwrecked and alone. She’s exhausted and traumatized, but resourceful, building shelter for herself and figuring out food and...
Little Monsters is the perfect crowd-pleaser of a zombie film: filled with righteous gore, excellent violence and… a classful of kindergarteners? That’s the unlikely spin Abe...
On paper, writer/director Jacob Estes‘ Relive would be a fairly interesting time travel thriller, but it’s made into something more by the really wonderful relationship between its...
When Dan Gilroy‘s Nightcrawler hit screens, it generated a fair amount of discussion as to whether it constitutes a genre film, but that question is altogether...
Thanks to a glut of true crime shows and podcasts, we’re in the midst of a renewed “aren’t serial killers fun?” phase, a pretty irresponsible national...
A massive, clunky robot moves alone through a futuristic bunker. A blinking title card tells us it’s been one day since the “extinction event,” and this...
It’s Summer 1977, and we’re in a crummy South Bronx apartment. In fact, we never go anywhere else, as Alistair Banks Griffin‘s The Wolf Hour has...
Fans of Alexandre O. Philippe‘s brilliant 78/52 – in which the director spends ninety minutes obsessing over the two-minute shower scene in Hitchcock‘s Psycho – won’t...
Tony West pulls off the near-impossible with his new film Deadtectives: he’s crafted a tonally perfect horror comedy, one that balances scares, laughs and heart-tugs with...
Matthew Holness – best known as the mastermind behind Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace – breaks from tonal expectation with his feature film debut Possum, an ambitiously unpleasant...
Writer/director Padraig Reynolds’ nearly single-location slasher Open 24 Hours starts off with a very strong declaration of what this movie is and what it’s about: Vanessa...
Stephen King is a state of mind. The author has written nearly 60 novels, a half-dozen non-fiction books and hundreds of short stories. In doing so,...
Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories began its life as an 80-minute play shrouded in mystery at the Liverpool Playhouse, and we can see some...
Spoilers for Ready Player One below. Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One is full of references to ‘80s pop culture: video games, board games, music, movies...
Before Ready Player One screened to a packed audience in The Paramount last night, Steven Spielberg took the stage and talked animatedly about how much he...
There’s a scene in Upgrade in which Logan Marshall-Green exhibits some straight-up masterful physical comedy. Can we get this guy – the mournful-eyed star of The...
The story of Sarah Winchester is one of the most interesting in American gothic history. According to lore, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress...
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