After remaining stubbornly dormant for nearly 20 years after Samuel L. Jackson slipped on the black turtle neck, I don’t think anyone was really expecting
Tag: 2019
Critters Attack!
Of all the late-in-the-day franchise resurrections that spring up all over the place lately, I don’t think anyone was expecting the alien flesh-eating furballs Critters
Escape Room
Any of the twelve of you out there who are crazily desperate for a gore free Saw ripoff can rest easy, because Escape Room exists
The Curse Of La Llorona
Sneaking up behind you as silent as the grave, a ghostly figure glides up behind you only to lay it’s bony hand on a shoulder
Annabelle Comes Home
It’s a curious fact, but the Annabelle doll, first seen causing supernatural trouble for clueless meat-sacks since 2013’s The Conjuring, has probably had more appearances
Trick
Lussier and Todd Farmer has been noticeably absent of late, which is a shame considering their last two collaborations where light-footed exercises in trashy fun.
Midway
There’s a saying that goes: those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It’s a wise saying as sayings go and
Inhuman Kiss
When weighing up the pros and cons of streaming movies vs physical media I always find myself staring at my DVD and Blu Ray laden
Terminator: Dark Fate
Let’s be honest now, The Terminator franchise has been in a sizable rut for some time now. Make excuses and defend your favorite installment that
VFW
It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a
Extra Ordinary
Maybe it’s my advancing years, but a sub-genre I’ve really found myself gravitating toward is the oddly gentle horror/comedy. Completely unsure of what that means?
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Back in 2017, the orginal 47 Meters Down helpfully warned us of the dangers of cage diving when Matthew Modine is running the show and
Color Out Of Space
I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site about the difficulty hollywood has had in trying to visualise the unearthly works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (H.P. to
Parasite
The dictionary describes the word “parasite” as an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving
The Lighthouse
The long awaited second movie from Robert Eggers – the man who gave us 2015’s impressive skin crawler The Witch – The Lighthouse is yet
Glass
M. Night Shyamalan’s capper to the stealth trilogy – unofficially starting with Unbreakable in 2000 and stunning everyone who didn’t even realise it existed until
1917
The war film has been getting some esoteric entries over the past couple of years what with Christopher Nolan’s time twisting Dunkirk doing the rounds
Jojo Rabbit
The final days of World War II seem like an odd stomping ground for broad humour, I mean even Life Is Beautiful was crammed with
The Gentlemen
Returning to his rhyming-slang roots for the first time since 2008’s Rocknrolla, Guy Richie leaves the heftily budgeted worlds of a blue CGI Will Smith
Cats
Director Tom Hooper has a lot to answer for…The man who gave us The Danish Girl, The King’s Speech and the 2012 version of Les
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