HUSH (2016)
[usr 3.0] A fleeting glance of Hush while browsing Netflix and you’d be forgiven for having a reflexive urge to keep scrolling. ‘A young...
THE WITCH (2015)
[usr 4.5] I wasn’t surprised to learn that The Witch’s writer-director, Robert Eggers, is from New England (his hometown is Lee, New Hampshire, about an...
BONE TOMAHAWK (2015)
[usr 3.0] Bone Tomahawk is, for the most part, a character-driven western with lots of talky scenes. It’s also a bloody and violent western...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
[usr 5.0] While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to...
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
[usr 3.0] Based both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride...
THE VISIT (2015)
[usr 3.5] A found footage thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan may not be the most appealing prospect given the director’s recent filmography. While...
6 HORROR FILMS TOO SCARY TO SEE TWICE
It’s Halloween this Saturday, so we’ve chosen 6 Horror Films Too Scary To See Twice. As the title suggests, not every film is a...
POLTERGEIST (2015)
[usr 2.0] Tobe Hooper’s original Poltergeist is a great film and the story of its production has become legend, so even a good remake’s doomed to sit...
MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT (2014)
[usr 2.5] “Gotta give the crowd what they want, baby,” a character says early on in Monsters: Dark Continent, as a group of gamblers...
VIDEODROME (1983)
[usr 4.0] David Cronenberg’s seminal 1983 body horror Videodrome begins with a shot of a TV screen and ends with its main character re-enacting...
IT FOLLOWS (2014)
[usr 4.5] It Follows opens with a shot of a quiet, average suburban street, with the seeming calm of the camera’s slow pan across the...
KNOCK KNOCK (2015)
[usr 3.0] With Knock Knock, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) progresses from “torture porn” to psychological torture, but with a premise straight out...