Why is it that the best horror films of the year are never really horror films? “Green Room” will forever be placed in that stereotyped category, but Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to his indie hit “Blue Ruin” is better than the distinction. The key element to “Green Room” (which refers to the room at a venue […]
There is a big difference between a “scary movie” and a “horror film”, one seeks an instant physical reaction from the viewer, the other a prolonged mental reverberation. “The Witch” is not a scary movie, or at least that isn’t the filmmaker’s purpose. Debuting at The Sundance Film Festival in 2015 with tremendous praise, first-time
This film marginally succeeds simply because it’s not completely awful. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies comes from author Seth Grahame-Smith’s idea of taking Jane Austin’s beloved novel Pride & Prejudice and inserting a zombie apocalypse in-between our favorite moments with Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Originally Natalie Portman was attached to the project, and still serves
Only one other western in recent memory has combined elements of horror, although Ron Howard’s The Missing never took the gruesome route S. Craig Zahler delivers here.
Irish film The Hallow begins like any other horror movie, with a couple moving into a secluded new home with strange neighbors. Both lead actor Mawle and supporting actor McElhatton are Game of Thrones alum, dabbling in genre films during the off season.
This is the first new franchise Vin Diesel has appeared in since 2008. Diesel’s work for the past decade is full of “Fast & Furious” sequels with some “Riddick” sequels thrown in. “The Last Witch Hunter”, which is basically inserting Diesel into an “Underworld” type franchise, is set up for further installments.
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”,