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.
It’s been a while since Guillermo del Toro was attached to something worthy of praise. His crowning achievement Pans Labyrinth (2006) remains his best work to date. It was the bombastic Pacific Rim (2013) that introduced del Toro to a worldwide audience, which makes Crimson Peak, a much smaller project, feel like a bit
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
Cooties rides the line of horror, gross behavior and stupidity like Jennifer’s Body, This is the End, or other over-the-top scary horror flicks. It’s a story about TV actors out of a current job, who ban together to fill out Fort Chicken Elementary where a terrible virus has turned the little ones into flesh eating
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”,
I can admire what first time director Henry Hobson was trying to do here, even if the movie was overall a failure. This isn’t the first time we have seen a popular and specific genre film adapted into a scaled down indie film. Zombies continue to be a subject of interest, mostly due to teen
The latest found footage, handheld camera, horror film The Gallows is one of the worst movies of 2015 and here is why.