The First Omen
Rome, 1971. Two scantily clad nuns (?) head to their local disco to dance to music that wouldn’t be released for another few years; the first omen that this prequel […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
The Coffee Table
This is a Spanish black comedy about a dysfunctional couple (Estefanía de los Santos and David Pareja) who get into a row over the husband’s impulsive purchase: an unbreakable coffee […]
No Way Up
No Way Up concerns a plane that crash-lands in the Pacific Ocean, where it is set upon by sharks presumably attracted to its slippery tail fin. The trailer for this […]
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
The sequel to one of the many escape room-themed thrillers that came out between 2017 and 2019, Sony’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is not to be confused with Taskmaster: […]
In a Violent Nature
This Canadian slasher flick tells a classic camping trip massacre from the perspective of the guy doing the massacring (Ry Barrett). Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature proves an interesting […]
Shin Godzilla
The Japanese government is thrown into a tailspin when Godzilla emerges from the ocean depths and starts trampling Tokyo, which had presumably only just been rebuilt from the last time […]
Trap
Months after producing his daughter’s first directorial feature (The Watched), M. Night Shyamalan launches his other daughter’s pop career in this thriller they should have called Attack of the Nepo […]
Only the River Flows
When dead bodies start washing up on the riverbank, a police detective (Zhu Yilong) loses sight of whether he is solving a case or abetting a cover-up, like a Chinese […]
Freddy vs. Jason
New Line and Paramount had been threatening to make a crossover Freddy vs. Jason movie since 1987, meaning they had 16 years to think of a way to get the […]
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
The cast and crew of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street get a rude awakening in this 1994 slasher sequel, when Heather Langenkamp (Heather Langenkamp), Robert Englund (Robert Englund) […]
Screen Goblin 