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THE LIGHTHOUSE

October 26, 2019 By 1 Comment

THE LIGHTHOUSE

A dark and twisted fever dream of a film, THE LIGHTHOUSE confronts the anguish of the human condition with suitable horror and an equally suitable dash of absurdity. Rendered in disturbing grades of black and white, it presents two men tending a lighthouse on a desolate rocky outcropping in the middle of nowhere. In the… Read More »

Tagged With: black and white, homoeroticism, horror, lighthouse, madness, mermaid, scrimshaw

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

June 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

THE DEAD DON’T DIE takes the tropes, idioms, and beloved foibles of low-budget zombie flicks and, with a skillful flick of its auteur’s cinematic wrist, recontextualizes them into a stylized gloss on the new normal of 2019.  Certainly the “Make America White Again” ball cap sported by the most reviled citizen (Steve Buscemi) of sleepy… Read More »

Tagged With: homage, horror, police, small town, spoof, undead, zombies

BRIGHTBURN

May 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment

BRIGHTBURN

What we have here is a dynamite premise fumbled in the execution. BRIGHTBURN gives us a strange visitor from another planet crashing to Earth as a baby and taken in by a good-hearted, infertile farm couple (Elizabeth Banks, David Denman) in the midst of baby fever. As with that other story of an infant from… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, adoption, alien visitor, horror, superhero

THE NUN

September 8, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE NUN

The decline and fall of franchises is a phenomenon that is all too common, and yet still heartbreaking in its own way. For every James Bond or Star Wars, there are countless other series that started strong, usually with a film that was a one-off, the success of which led to studio bean-counters to push… Read More »

Tagged With: abbey, cloister, horror, nuns, Razzie-worthy, Romania, sequel

HEREDITY

June 12, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HEREDITY

The only thing wrong with HEREDITY is that is bound to spawn increasingly inferior installments in a new franchise that is as inevitable as its protagonists’ descent into madness.  That aside, this deeply disturbing horror film does not need the supernatural in order to worm its way into the darkest recesses of your psyche where… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, horror, inheritance, insanity, mother-daughter

A QUIET PLACE

May 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment

A QUIET PLACE

Why lob blood and guts when a lamp being knocked over can make you jump out of your seat?

Tagged With: alien invasion, deafness, horror, nuclear family, sign language

UNSANE

March 21, 2018 By Leave a Comment

UNSANE

For me, the single most disconcerting image in a Steven Soderbergh film is from CONTAGION.  It’s not a panorama of people dying from the pandemic that threatens to end civilization as we know it, instead it’s the silent, dispassionately clinical shot of Gwyneth Paltrow’s head being autopsied. There are people I know who reference the… Read More »

Tagged With: health insurance scam, horror, mental health clinic, PTSD, stalking, voluntary commitment

IT

September 9, 2017 By Leave a Comment

IT

The evil that lurks in the sewers beneath Derry, Maine, has nothing on the evil lurking in the homes of that community.

Tagged With: book to screen, bullying, child abduction, child abuse, evil clown, horror, remake

KILLING GROUND

July 29, 2017 By Leave a Comment

KILLING GROUND

The end of a relationship is always poignant.  Be it an impulsive move made by one person that changes the dynamic forever, or a bullet to the head at close range, the finality is a moment is a time of reflection on the past, and a pondering of the future. The solidly made little horror… Read More »

Tagged With: camping, holiday season, horror, murder, New Year, no cell phone service, pit bull, remote location, serial killing

THE VOID

April 7, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE VOID

THE VOID is a beautifully executed horror film that pays homage to the genre’s roots while carving out its own enigmatically creepy mythos.  Playing on such familiar tropes as the deserted farmhouse, the dark basement, and an axe swung with abandon, it takes place over the course of one night in a soon-to-be abandoned hospital… Read More »

Tagged With: cult, horror, hospital, mystery, suspense, tentacles

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