Vishniac (video review)
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Horror
Insidious: The Last Key
Perhaps no one involved in the making of 2010’s first Insidious movie really understood what an invaluable asset they had in Lin Shaye. Her character, professional psychic Elise Rainer, was the film’s most memorable character, but unfortunately that film ended with her untimely death. Ever since, in three successive sequels, director and series co-creator Leigh […]
The Bye Bye Man (2017)
Ah! January at the movies; when theaters exude the hangover of Christmas leftovers, Oscar hopefuls and a small number of vacuous lackadaisical new releases that weren’t good enough to get a release in the other 11 months on the calendar. This has become the spawning ground for your average negligible PG-13 horror movie, the kind […]
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
There is generally nothing wrong with an art house horror movie. I’m always game, whether it be something as bizarre as Eraserhead, as creepy as The VVItch or possibly as forgotten as Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, I’m always on board for the unpredictable nature of indie horror . . . . . . […]
Lights Out (2016)
Is it odd to suggest that a movie that only runs 81 minutes might need trimming? That thought occurred to me all through Lights Out a nugatory little horror outing that has a clever premise but is padded out with loads of uninteresting characters and family drama that, truth be told, only gets in the […]
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane is alternately fascinating and frustrating at the same time. It is fascinating in the moment but frustrating in that it takes so long to get where it’s going that it arrives at an ending that should have been the beginning of the second act. That’s doesn’t make the movie bad exactly, it […]
The Boy (2016)
To make a creepy doll movie takes a lightness of touch. You have to employ atmosphere, pacing, good editing, a good script, plus a doll that you can believe that someone would actually own. The Boy has none of these things. It is a competently made movie operating on a silly premise that the filmmakers […]
Crimson Peak (2015)
The man at the publishing house looks quite amused when he finishes reading Edith’s manuscript. She’s just written a most unromantic ghost story that she hopes to have published. “Ghosts are a metaphor for the past,” she says, and to us this seems like a simple throwaway statement until we reach the finish line of […]
The Visit (2015)
It has been agonizing to watch M. Night Shyamalan over the past decade, a director who came bursting out the gate back in ’99 with The Sixth Sense, a brilliant piece of cold terror that earned him two Oscar nominations and, for me, stayed the course with his next two pictures Signs and Unbreakable. But […]
