FrightFest 2022: Candy Land
From one Candy Land to another, this Christmas-set slasher follows a group of truck stop sex workers (Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Sam Quartin and Virginia Rand) whose lives are rear-ended […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
FrightFest 2022: Bitch Ass
For their gang initiation, 4 teenagers (Teon Kelley, Belle Guillory, A-F-R-O and Kelsey Caesar) are sent to rob a house only to find it inhabited by Bitch Ass (Tunde Laleye), […]
Drag Me to Hell
After a spidery sabbatical, Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre in 2009 to do for bank branches what The Evil Dead did for tree branches. Drag Me to Hell […]
Nope
A Hollywood horse wrangler (Daniel Kaluuya) and his showbiz sister (Keke Palmer) encounter a UFO above their ranch in Nope, or Nay if you’re a horse. Turning his back on […]
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Tomb Raider and Expendables 2 director Simon West indulges his love of women running in tank tops and dredging up relics in this 2006 remake. This redundant rehash stretches the […]
When a Stranger Calls
A babysitter (Carol Kane) is stalked by a child-killer (Tony Beckley) in Fred Walton’s 1979 thriller adapted from his short film The Sitter, itself based on an urban legend about […]
Thor: Love and Thunder
A god killer (Christian Bale) steals the children of New Asgard in Thor: Beyond Love and Thunderdome. As would happen to anyone stuck for three years on a spaceship with […]
Men
A widow (Jessie Buckley) heads for a recuperative holiday in the English countryside, and soon finds that being a woman isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The culmination of […]
Top Gun: Maverick
Maverick (Tom Cruise) is back in the movie that should have been called Top Gun: Cruise Control, if Speed 2 hadn’t beaten him to it on an ocean liner. This […]
The Black Phone
New horror movie The Black Phone reunites Sinister‘s Ethan Hawke with director Scott Derrickson, Halloween Kills‘ Troy Rudeseal with producer Jason Blum, and Lost‘s Jeremy Davies with the act of […]
