• October 10, 2017
• At Home, Horror

Three beautiful 20-something Americans, two brothers and the young woman who comes between them, are off to Australia to do reckless, crazy things. And since they are Millennials, they...

• June 16, 2017
• At Home, Horror

Lisa and Kate (Mandy Moore and Claire Holt, respectively) are sisters on vacation in Mexico, who make the ill-advised choice to go on a cage dive with a couple...

• January 20, 2017
• At Home, Horror

That was my reaction when the closing credits began to roll on what so many people touted as writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s return to form after a string of...

• October 29, 2016
• At Home, Horror

Poor Elizabeth Taylor. It seems as though her whole life was defined by husband drama.  Night Watch finds our perfectly-coiffed heroine starring as Ellen Wheeler, a privileged woman with...

• October 25, 2016
• Books, Horror

As promised, the book covers 101 films over roughly 100 years, and suggests the best picks for each decade (1910s-2000s). It’s a good sampling of horror film history, and...

• September 14, 2016
• At Home, Horror

In a sense, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren helped spawn the modern horror movie. After all, it was they who documented the murders at the house in Amityville,...

• September 2, 2016
• At Home, Horror, Television

Besides its name (and Tony and Ridley Scott as producers) the short-lived erotic horror anthology series The Hunger didn’t have much in common with the classic Bowie/Deneuve/Sarandon soft-porn vampire...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Horror

Since every adaptation of anything these days has to have a twist, this time we meet Victor Frankenstein through the eyes of a sad-faced clown… or rather a sad-faced...

• July 12, 2016
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Horror

I tried to read Seth Grahame-Smith’s mash-up novel on which the film is based, and I freely admit I made it through just one chapter. However, like a lot...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Horror

So, you know those conspiracy theorists? They’re the guys (yep, usually guys) that are quite certain that the latest (fill in the blank) enemy is going to bomb the hell...

• May 11, 2016
• At Home, Horror

Poor Greta (The Walking Dead‘s Lauren Cohen). All she wanted was to flee an abusive boyfriend in the States and take a break across the pond. You know, take...

• November 20, 2015
• At Home, Horror

It seems like all sorts of black and white movies center on a group of people cooped up in a big house while some sort of mystery unfolds. There’s...