The Lodge (2020)
“We can’t stay where we are.” Profound grief and emotional dissonance highlight the internalized horrors of The Lodge, a film where the scares and the terrors are of their own macabre, […]
Category Archives: Horror
Underwater (2020)
“You lose your sense of time in the dark.” Practically lifeless, lit by the despair of isolating desolation, and set in the deepest trenches of Earth’s most terrifying and unexplored […]
Doctor Sleep (2019)
“They come back.” At its core, Doctor Sleep takes Stephen King’s novel (which I admittedly have not read) and flips the pages into a supernatural horror story built for the […]
Sweetheart (2019)
“I’ve never seen it during the day.” Conceptually speaking, Sweetheart is an intriguing and easy sell for curious audiences to buy into. The first predatory shot lifts the camera from underwater […]
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
“You mean well, but you’re kind of overbearing.” I remember enjoying 2009’s Zombieland because, during the utter deluge of zombie movies at the time, it was able to blend comedy and […]
Little Monsters (2019)
“It’s my job.” As a horror comedy, Little Monsters packs enough zombies and gut busting laughs to be lauded in both categories. What’s most impressive though is that the film […]
It Chapter Two (2019)
“If It ever comes back, we’ll come back too.” Dense, disturbing, and terribly disappointing in equal measures, It Chapter Two revisits Stephen King’s small fictional town of Derry, Maine precisely […]
Ready or Not (2019)
“It’s just a weird family ritual.” Class warfare, outdated family traditions, and holy matrimony literally duke it out in Ready or Not, a bloody fun and uneven attempt at satire […]
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
“Don’t get eaten by a shark.” On one hand, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is a rather impressive piece of moviemaking. It’s a bolder film than the original, as well as […]
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
“You let a ghost story get into your heads.” It’s hard to not appreciate Alvin Schwartz’s collection of short horror stories tailored to terrify school kids checking out library books […]
