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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.
Movie Review: 'Alive' Starring Angus MacFadyen (Not the good Netflix 'Alive')
This review is something of an experiment. I am hoping that by the end of this writing I will know for sure whether or not I actually like or don’t like the newly released horror movie, Alive starring Angus MacFadyen. I am genuinely of two minds on the movie. On one hand, I watched all the way to the end and I really wanted to know how it all turned out. On the other hand, the lead performances are mediocre at best and only the clumsy mystery at the center of the story kept me watching.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Lights Out - A Movie Review
Beware of the figure looming in the shadows when you turn the lights out. Turning out the lights in 2016, Lights Out was released to theaters. An estranged family is forced to rekindle when an unusual occurrence is brought forth. An unknown figure looms in the shadows whenever the lights are turned out. It’s only a matter of time to figure out this supernatural entity attached to their mother.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Horror
Why Many Are Wrong About ‘Antebellum’
Upon finishing Antebellum, I needed about half an hour to gather my thoughts. I then needed another two hours when I saw the overall critics and audience consensus on Antebellum was definitively disappointed. Did I miss something? Are these people all discussing the same film I just watched?
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Horror
The Haunting of Molly Hartley - A Movie Review
I don’t know if I am going crazy or if its because the plotline is changing so many times. The Haunting of Molly Hartley is a 2008 film about a teenage girl trying to move on after a traumatic experience. Going to a new school does not help. It’s not soon until Molly learns sinister news about herself that may afflict her eighteenth birthday.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Horror
Film Review: Unfriended: Dark Web
Found footage horror films haven’t changed much since classic like The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, and Paranormal Activity first put the genre on the map. However, there’s an interesting subgenre popping up more and more often – the type of found footage horror flick that unfolds completely over computer screens, browser windows, Skype chats, and the like. Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Window is an early example of the idea at work, but 2014’s Unfriended officially took it into the mainstream when it globally raked in a cool $60 million dollars. Unfriended: Dark Web is the much anticipated sequel… but does it actually deliver or would you be better off swiping left and spending your screen time elsewhere?
By Christina Dee5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Shortcut'
Shortcut is short and that's the best thing about this teen-centric horror movie. That's not to say that Shortcut is unwatchably bad, it's not. Shortcut is perfectly serviceable as a creature feature. If you like goofy monsters and lots of dark corners in which to shine torches and flashlights, Shortcut has you covered. If you are looking for genuine scares, you will want to look elsewhere.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
PAUSE: An Return to George Sluizer's 'The Vanishing' (1988)
'Spoorloos' opens with a young Dutch couple driving to Paris for a holiday. While passing through the tunnel, the car stops and Saskia (Johanna ter Steege) voices a dream she has. She describes how she envisioned two golden eggs colliding in a bizarre twist of fate. The whole scene containing Saskia's monologue is dripping with tension and a goosebump-inducing air of foreshadowing. The couple drive on.
By Dani Buckley5 years ago in Horror
A Filmmaker's Guide to: “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920)
In this chapter of ‘the filmmaker’s guide’ we are going to explore some of the films that have changed our outlook of the possibilities in cinema in some way, shape or form. These can include, but are not limited to: revolutionary cinematography, narratives that challenge the social structure and the common view, trademark styles of auter cinema, brilliant adaptations of novels and other works, films of philosophical value and films that touch our hearts and souls with their incredible underlying messages and morals. Within each of the films in this chapter there is a certain something that makes them special and a certain something that makes them linger long after we have watched them for the first time. Lasting impressions are difficult to create, but I think that the films we will briefly touch on in this chapter are some of the films we will never ever forget.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Horror
