Set in 1993 and complete with a VHS tape aesthetic and graphics complete with bloody practical effects, Mr. Crocket weaves millennial nostalgia into quite forgivable supernatural fable. Revitalizes over-familiar scares. Turn of events in the film encourages recalling the last name Espy. The director of the short film of the same name expands his own […]
Peacock’s new horror thriller Teacup gets it right. Everything. The mystery. The intrigue. The suspense. The gore. The frights. It’s all there in this series, with a tempting concoction that reminds Stephen King and John Carpenter, the two haymakers of this genre. The show works on so many levels, especially in the capable hands of
Halloween draws near yet again, and for whatever reasons, for at least 50 years, filmmakers have associated that Private Holiday with Christmas and have moved two months ahead. Since your favorite psychopathic clown has somehow grown tired of the same Halloween holiday, why not give him some new epic holiday time of the year? Just
“I could not even begin to take stock of what they will say about me,” says Dr. Orion Zephyr (Ron Perlman) at the beginning of Succubus. “This is my research. You can’t force me to love you like that. I love you. Forgive me.” In short order, the man leaves his office, takes an ax
Seven long years have passed, and since then, Joseph Kahn has not made another movie, until then, Bodied: a controversial dark comic film about a liberal white kid who accidentally turns into an authentic battle rap contender. It’s unsettling how Bodied has managed to poke fun at various aspects of culture when it comes to
In the over-the-top dark comedy thriller It’s What’s Inside, a group of college friends have a reunion in an isolated place and engage in a fun, but dangerous mystery party game. The way it does, however, provides a thumb, seeing that there is at all cost to be a lot of South in writer/director Greg
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Hold Your Breath is an apt title for the new Hulu iteration starring Emmy award winner Sarah Paulson. This has a reference to its temporal and spatial setting (namely Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl period in the 1930s), but not very pleasantly disturbing, which is why you will start Hold Your Breath more and more,
Azrael is said to occur in the time after the events of Rapture where the remaining faithful of the world have taken a vow of silence. Males cut their vocal cords leaving only a cross-shape scar to ensure quiet compliance. However, there is another deadly remnant that still exists in the wild but this one
Among all the fictional small towns created by Stephen King, Jerusalem’s Lot (Salem’s Lot) strikes the right chord. Other than the well spoken title which is most associated with salem’s lot – it is a small Maine town that for some reason or another becomes prey to a bloodthirsty vampire. There is also some sort
For the sake of this review’s purpose, it would be senseless to try to persuade anyone that parenting (and motherhood in particular) is not hard. Spoiler alert: it is. For all the beauty and joy of seeing a child grow up, at times being a mother is nothing but a thankless job. With little appreciation