Sean Patrick
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Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.
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Movie Review: 'Coming Home in the Dark'
Coming Home in the Dark is a grim and fearsome revenge movie. The story of a family that takes a day trip to a New Zealand mountain range only to be assaulted and kidnapped by thieves with a secret agenda, Coming Home in the Dark quickly becomes shocking and never really lets up from there. Directed by newcomer James Ashcroft, Coming Home in the Dark is about the past, the present and the complicity of inaction.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Death Drop Gorgeous'
Death Drop Gorgeous is a bizarre and often gross homage to the trash cinema of the legendary John Waters. The movie tells the story of a group of drag performers who become the target of a serial murderer in their community. A series of ever more grisly murders unfold and a pair of thoroughly nonplussed cops investigate the crime while also trying to keep the series of murders quiet so as not to upset the business interest of a local club owner who is missing three fingers.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Malignant' from Director James Wan
Malignant stars Annabelle Wallis as Madison, a woman in an abusive relationship. When Madison returns home from work she gets into an argument with her husband, Derek (Jake Abel). He shoves Madison’s head into the wall hard enough to break the wall and cut Madison’s head open. He leaves, she locks him out of the bedroom and worries how his abuse might have affected her unborn child.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Candyman' 2021
Candyman 2021 stars Yahya Abdul Mateen II as Anthony, a rising star in the Chicago art world. Anthony has been struggling of late since he and his girlfriend, Brianna (Teyonna Parris) moved to their new apartment. In need of inspiration, Anthony becomes enamored with a story Brianna’s brother Troy (Nathan Stewart Jarrett) tells one night over drinks. Troy tells the story of Helen and The Candyman, an entity that can be summoned by saying his name 5 times.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Candyman' 1992
Candyman 1992 stars Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle, a grad student working on a thesis on urban legends. With her best friend, Bernadette (Kasi Lemmons) co-writing the thesis, the two have begun to investigate a very particular legend, that of the Candyman. An exposition professor, played with righteous pomposity by Michael Culkin, explains that Candyman (Tony Todd) was a former slave turned painter who was lynched in the late 18th century after fathering a child with a white woman, the wife of a plantation owner.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'We Need to Do Something'
As a storm overtakes a small suburban town, an internal storm rages inside the suburban home of a divided family of four in the horror thriller, We Need to Do Something. Directed by Sean King O’Grady, We Need to Do Something stars Pat Healy as Robert, the agitated father, Vinessa Shaw plays Diane, the secretive but loving mother to Melissa, played by Sierra McCormick, and Bobby, played by John James Cronin.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Behemoth'
The story behind the new movie Behemoth is more interesting than the story being told in the movie Behemoth. Director Peter Szewczyk is a famed effects artist and managed to make this effects heavy horror flick with a budget of only $65,000. That’s a remarkable achievement considering the cost of a movie in general can be twice that amount without relying on special effects spectacle.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Demonic' starring Carly Pope
Demonic stars Carly Pope as Carly, a woman hiding from her past. 20 years before the start of our story, Carly’s mother became one of the most infamous killers in American history. Angela (Nathalie Boltt) was arrested after she’d set fire to a nursing home, a fire that killed 21 people. She would kill 26 people in all before being captured by Police. Carly has been haunted by her mother’s crimes for years, even after cutting off contact from her mother and changing her name.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: Ugly and Insipid 'Don't Breathe 2' Didn't Need to Exist
Don’t Breathe 2 begins from the flawed premise that the serial murderer and rapist at the center of the first film can somehow be rehabbed into an anti-hero. Stephen Lang’s ‘The Blind Man’ murdered teenagers who simply wandered into the wrong house looking to steal something, yes, and then they stumbled into his rape room. To say as a filmmaker that you want to further explore this character but from the perspective of a hero is strange to say the least and misguided at best.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Dachra' Tunisia's First Horror Movie
Dachra is said to be Tunisia’s first horror movie. If that’s indeed true then they’ve learned a lot from the horror traditions of America. The film is about three journalism students who are chasing an exclusive story in order to get a good grade in their class. They are tasked with doing an original, exclusive, investigative news story and one of the three happens to have an idea that involves a legendary mental patient and the strange village near where the patient was found having survived having her throat cut and other such horrors.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Interview: Director Darren Lynn Bousman on the Future of 'Spiral' and 'Saw'
Director Darren Lynn Bousman stepped away from the Saw franchise more than a decade ago and assumed he was done working inside the world created for Jigsaw, aka John Kramer. Then, Chris Rock called and suddenly a whole new take on the franchise opened up before Bousman's eyes. Now, the director of three Saw movies, Saw 2, Saw 3 and Saw 4, and what he hopes will be the first of the Spiral movies, has his eyes on the future of the Saw cinematic universe.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Amusement Park' Lost George Romero Movie Found and Restored
I was perhaps a little too excited when I got word that a new George A. Romero movie from the early 1970s had been uncovered and fully restored. I, like so many others, am a huge fan of Romero from all of the Living Dead movies. He’s a storied figure in the history of horror and the notion that a piece of his work had been found and was fully restored, it captured my imagination and made me think that I was about to have a profound experience.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
