Friday the 13th Parts 1-3
Having rewatched the first three Friday the 13th films on the eponymous, inauspicious occasion, here is another stab at reviewing these classic slashers (and Friday the 13th Part 3). Friday […]
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FrightFest 2023: Departing Seniors
Days before graduation, a set of high school bullies are given a bloody send-off by a masked killer in indie slasher Departing Seniors; a punny title likely lost on British […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
A new family moves into 1428 Elm Street after getting a cheap deal on the hot (or very recently on fire) property, only to find its electrical appliances and household […]
Sorority Row
Sorority Row joined a slew of slasher remakes circa 2009 to form whatever’s the opposite of a genre revival. Let’s call it the noughties slasher burial. A mangled mixer of […]
Alien
Few films are as influential and more pointless to review than Alien; by this point trying to say anything new about the 1979 classic is the critical equivalent of screaming […]
Scream VI
Ghostface follows in the footsteps of Jason Voorhees and the Muppets by taking Manhattan. Which means Ghostface in Space cannot be far off. If Creed has proven franchises can survive […]
Halloween Ends
Michael Myers transfers his evil powers to a babysitter (Rohan Campbell) who accidentally killed a child in Halloween Ends, AKA Jamie Lee Curtains. These sequels pick the strangest elements of […]
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Search Party meets Murder Party in A24’s new dark comedy about a group of Gen Z friends searching for a murderer at a party. “Friends” in this case is a […]
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