Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
“All art is dangerous.” One of the very first scenes in Velvet Buzzsaw – a cinematic approach to Juvelian satire with playfully inventive savagery and a generous splash of acerbic […]
Category Archives: Horror
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
“What the hell is going on here?” More trial and error than it ever is thoughtfully or thoroughly executed, Happy Death Day 2U is a pitch perfect example of how to […]
Bird Box (2018)
“The end of the world makes us do things.” Bird Box begins a few sequences shy of its final ending then jumps back in time 5 whole years. That’s a […]
Suspiria (2018)
“I didn’t think it was gonna be like this.” You don’t have to love a movie to appreciate its greatness. To be quite honest, I’m not sure I really even […]
Night of the Comet (1984)
“I hate days that start like this.” An ultra low-budget B-movie that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an ultra low-budget B-movie, Night of the Comet stands out as both […]
Halloween (2018)
“He’s waited for me. I waited for him.” Released almost exactly 40 years after John Carpenter’s iconic original – and after ditching all of the loose consequences and false avenues […]
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
“We made a pact and we’re going to keep it.” I Know What You Did Last Summer pulls off a feat very few genre pictures have proven to be capable […]
Venom (2018)
“Any action is often better than no action.” While I can’t allow myself to admit that it’s so bad it’s good (mostly because I don’t believe in the phrase), Venom […]
The Predator (2018)
“It hunts people for sport.” Inspired by 80’s aesthetics and dressed from head to toe in the era’s garb, The Predator is a modern fanboy’s love letter to the kind of […]
The Nun (2018)
“We have no other choice.” As one of the dumbest, darkest and most dim-witted movies of the year, The Nun allows us to see through the shadows because it wastes so […]
