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: '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 Patrick5 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 Patrick5 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
Movie Review: 'A Quiet Place: Part 2' is EXHAUSTING
I didn’t enjoy A Quiet Place Part 2, I endured it. John Krasinski’s budding horror franchise is utterly exhausting. I understand that tension is the bread and butter of this premise but at a certain point my excitement during A Quiet Place Part 2 morphed into the kind of feeling one has during a rigorous workout with a tyrannical trainer, I appreciate the necessity but I just want this to be over as soon as possible. Some will call it effective, I don’t entirely disagree with that notion. But I don’t think a feeling of weary relief that I can now go home is what the movie is intending.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Saw 5' Still Scary and Violent After All These Years
In my review of Saw 2 I said that Jigsaw wasn't immortal. I was wrong. No, he doesn’t rise from the dead but through his unending game, his work, his philosophy, and teaching, he is far from gone. As we wend our way toward Saw 6, the final in my series of Saw reviews, Saw 5 sets the table for the Jigsaw philosophy to live forever. Saw 5 is not as carefully thought out as Saw movies that came before it. It is however as suspenseful and surprising as any of the Saw movies and that goes a long way.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Saw 4' Showed How a Great Series Maintains Momentum
Saw celebrates humanity while exploring its degradation and destruction. The point of the series has always been about the character of Jigsaw, played by Tobin Bell, teaching the lecherous and lethargic to appreciate the gift of life. It's a bizarre and ingenious idea for a horror film and, in its fourth installment, Saw brought both closure and new beginnings to its stories of human misery, sadness and redemption.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Spiral' Doesn't Quite Live Up to the Legacy of Saw'
It’s rather appropriate that Chris Rock would use the Saw horror franchise as a means to send a message regarding Police Reform. The Saw franchise is one of the most thoughtful and conscientious franchises in the history of American horror. The film's messages regarding valuing your life and paying dearly for your sins make it one of the strangest and most fascinating franchises Hollywood has ever produced.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Amityville Poltergeist'
In the competition for worst movie of 2021, it’s thus far no contest. The bizarre cannibal rape movie, Scavenger remains untouched as the worst thing I’ve seen this year. Amityville Poltergeist is the one movie thus far that can come close to challenging the title. Amityville Poltergeist however, is not nearly as hateful in it’s terribleness as Scavenger is. Amityville Poltergeist is more incompetent than Scavenger, somehow, but the fact that it doesn’t feature an unending sexual assault and appears to have a three act structure, keeps Scavenger ahead in pure awfulness.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Saw 3'
Spiral: From the Book of Saw is now in theaters, as of May 14th, 2021. The film attempts to carry on the tremendous legacy of the franchise begun by director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell in 2004. Spiral isn’t bad, but it is on the lower end of any ranking of the Saw franchise from best to worst. I happen to be a Saw apologist, to the point where I have never ranked the Saw movies from best to worst, worst to best, simply because, aside from 2017’s Jigsaw, blech, all the Saw movies are really good.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Saw 2'
Spiral: From the Book of Saw opens May 14th, 2021. As part of a series looking at the franchise, I am watching and reviewing the Saw movies. I've already published reviews of Jigsaw (2017), Saw 3D (2010) and the original Saw (2004). With this review, I am picking up the franchise again and looking them, one movie at a time while placing them in the context of when they were released.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
