The film comically mentions that bestselling children’s book author R.L. Stine has sold more books than Stephen King, yet this is the first major motion picture based on his work. The Goosebumps movie project has been tossed around Hollywood for a while, but this particular script over reaches trying to shove all 62 original […]
Horror movies in 2015 have it rough, we get so much crap like those cheap and easy to produce “found footage” movies, so when we hear buzz about a foreign film in the horror genre, daring to offer up something different, interest in perked. Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala deliver something different for
French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve caught my undivided attention with his thriller “Prisoners” (2013), portraying one of the darkest kidnapping scenarios in recent memory. Villeneuve explores even darker subject matter in his latest suspense thriller “Sicario” (meaning hitman in Mexico), that will make pudding out of any 2015 horror film. Its closest companion would
Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan is a bit egotistical. The filmmaker who shot to success in 1999 with his beautifully haunting thriller “The Sixth Sense”, earning him an Oscar nomination has been trying to “regain control” ever since. For over a decade he has forced audience to sit though films like “Unbreakable”, “Signs” and “The Happening”,
As Hollywood continues its 80’s & 90’s retrospective remakes, the 1982 horror classic co-written by Steven Spielberg, has been reinvented for the modern day. The original version, followed by its two sequels, have long been the source of controversy due to the fact five of the actors died somewhat of unusual circumstances. Minor details have
David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, which is currently sitting around 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, suffers from the assumption that unorthodox equals genuine. Based on a reoccurring nightmare Mitchell has, It Follows attempts to avoid horror genre clichés only by falling into even worse clichés. Presented in a voyeuristic style, the film opens with a
I am just going to be upfront and honest, “Backcountry” is one of the most terrifying films I have ever seen. Maybe it’s because I am from the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina, maybe it’s because actor turned writer/director Adam McDonald studied bears and their habits for years before filming. Either way “Backcountry” is
This is the type of frightening, borderline horror film, exercising a great amount of restraint I like to see. Director Craig William Macneill and writer Clay McLeod Chapman have adapted their short film Henley into a full blown feature starring the same frightening character. While the story leaves many unanswered questions (why is mom in
Most of the time it’s difficult to determine whether James Franco is making fun of a subject he is studying or if he is truly interested in promoting the psychology of a character. Child of God is the latest film adapted from the words of Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men, The Road) and
The most interesting thing about Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows is how the entire film takes place on open windows, referring to the multiple windows or browsers we can have open on one screen. Sure, the realm of possibility is bent somewhat with when and where the characters can get camera and internet connections in the