The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Horror
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
It is hard to tell if The Cabin in the Woods is either a commentary on horror movie clichés, a celebration, or a kick in...
Devil (2010)
I have grown so weary of horror movies that the prospect of attending one fills me with a degree of dread. Horror movies, of late,...
The Lovely Bones (2009)
The Lovely Bones is a sick, ugly little movie about a girl who is raped and murdered and then spends her afterlife in an eternity...
Turistas (2006)
Turistas opens with a scene that is effectively chilling, but none-the-less completely destroys any mystery or suspense that the rest of the film might have...
Saw (2004)
Saw is an unpleasant, macabre little piece of business that, for ninety minutes wallows in illogical nonsense and human suffering. It might be a total...
Poltergeist (1982): The movie vs. the book
Don't tell me I need a life, many have gone before you with that screed and with much more zeal. Submitted for your disapproval -...
Tremors (1990)
There exists in me a great appreciation for horror comedies. It’s a tricky balancing act in two genre that should easily equal one another but...
