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Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.
IFC Films and Shudder Buys Andrew Semans’ Bold Sundance Hit ‘RESURRECTION’ Starring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth in Career Best Performances
IFC Films and Shudder announced that they are acquiring North American rights to psychological thriller RESURRECTION written and directed by Andrew Semans (Nancy, Please), starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, and Michael Esper. The film premiered this week at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim, rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about films at the festival. IFC Films will release the film in theaters and on VOD with Shudder taking the first streaming window.
By Tammy Reese4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Long Night' is a Bore
The Long Night is a remarkably dull and derivative horror movie. This story about a couple trapped in a southern plantation home by some form of powerful demonic cult paints itself into multiple corners that it has no hope of getting out of. The villains have too much power and our protagonists are a bickering couple who have zero chemistry. So that’s fun. Then the movie builds to an ending that features character motivations that shift so fast you may get whiplash trying to keep up with the silliness.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
‘Babysitter’ Review: A Hilarious Psychosexual Horror-Comedy with Technicolor Pop
Monia Chokri's "Sitter" is a crazy satire in the body of a Technicolor bad dream. The tale of moderately aged sex bother Cédric (Patrick Hivon), his over-repaying women's activist sibling Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), his discouraged spouse Nadine - another mother, played by Chokri herself - and their strange, young babysitter Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who appears to be resolved to enlivening their affection life, the film shows up with loud, firm energy that possibly eases up when Chorkri chooses to veer into the phantasmagorical.
By Ashu7232854 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: Dismissed
In life, most people will strive to do what it takes to get ahead in school. But it takes someone like Lucas Ward from the 2017 film ‘Dismissed’ to go as far as murdering his only friend in order to get his English teacher thrown out in order to grasp an A. Through the movie we follow Lucas Ward, a student determined to get into Harvard - no matter the cost - and his new English teacher, David Butler, who has decided not to let Lucas intimidate him. “The movie amplifies the desperation a student will go to just to get an A and only so that he can have a better life, a career that will not lead him to become a drunk loser like his father… And if anyone comes in the way of that... He's ready to kill,” writes Palvi Sharma, horror analyzer. ‘Dismissed’ is a shocking thriller movie that explores the ego and where our own lines are drawn in the superego sand, while holding many similar themes to classic horror films.
By Charleigh Frederick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Nocturna Side A' and 'Nocturna Side B'
After watching Noctura Side A and Nocturna Side B, I sent a message to my Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast Co-Host, Bob Zerull, that indicated what I had watched and that I would have trouble sleeping that night. So haunting, engrossing, and agonizing is the Side A-Side B duo of Nocturna movies in their psychological horrors and soul aching sadness that I was unsure I was capable of sleep anymore. Nocturna Side A and Nocturna Side B are the kind of movies that etch themselves into your subconscious.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Curse of La Patasola'
Some movies are just impossible to care about. They may have a scene or two that is pretty good or even a good idea or two in the storytelling and yet, they fail to engage your mind. The Curse of La Patasola is such a movie. Despite there being at least one legitimately good scene, the film from director A.J Jones never rises above mediocre to downright terrible. The low budget provides some excuses for the low rent nature but it can’t excuse the overall throwaway aspect of The Curse of La Patasola.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Scream 5: Review
“ A Crazed Fandom With A Remorseless Ghostface ” Hello, my fellow Scream fans. The time has come that the black and white ghastly menace has stepped back onto our screens since the past eleven years and he or should I say they have made its bloodthirsty return to Woodsboro and this time, no more games are being played.
By Janay Ealey4 years ago in Horror
A Tale of Two Adaptations
With over 1,138 pages, questionable depictions, and a drugged out author, here's how many took the work of Steven King's IT and turned it to an adaption for every generation. With one of Steven King’s most famous works, there is a lot of pressure to capture the horror and metaphors Steven King wrote. Each adaptation has its pros and cons. The 1990 adaption introduced the world to the world of IT, and the later remakes expanded on the mythos. Here's how both adaptations gave generations fear of clowns and see how the two adaptations stack against each other from its deviations of the book, the performances of Pennywise, and its ultimate measure of success.
By Oswaldo Gomez Zamora4 years ago in Horror
