Candyman
An academic’s (Virginia Madsen) research into urban legends takes her through the looking glass when one grizzly ghost story gets its hooks into her. This psychological thriller might be best […]
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Tattoo (2002)
Tattoo is a German thriller from 2002, not to be confused with the 1981 American movie Tattoo or the Russian band t.A.T.u. This film has perhaps the most ridiculous opening […]
Killers of the Flower Moon
When black gold is struck in Osage County, white benefactors manage oil assets for the native Americans who own the land. After returning from World War I, Ernest Buckhart (Leonardo […]
The Exorcist
The greatest thing to come out of Catholicism since Pancake Day, The Exorcist is re-released for its 50th anniversary. It follows a famous actor (Ellen Burstyn) who moves to Washington […]
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
This review is the result of completing a Twilight marathon, which is a lot like competing in a real marathon except it’s much more important to drink. My focus is […]
Day of the Dead
The lunatics have taken over the underground research facility in this plague-fuelled military satire they should have called Dr. Strain-Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Our […]
The Birds
A farmhouse is besieged by birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s Flight of the Living Dead. Often parroted but never bettered, this 1963 chick flick does for birds as Jaws did for […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is resurrected when a dog pisses fire on his remains (really) in this slog of a sequel from 1988. Abandoning the novel angle established by Dream […]
Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero and Italian superfan/collaborator Dario Argento go bigger, bloodier and bitier in this 1978 sequel to Romero’s epochal apocalypse picture. Dawn of the Dead comes 10 years after […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest meets Stephen King’s It in this 1987 threequel, when the Elm Street kids wind up in a hospital for the criminally underslept. After being […]
