The Omen
An American ambassador (Gregory Peck) accidentally adopts the antichrist (Harvey Spencer Stephens) in this 1976 tale of diplomatic inanity. The Omen piggybacks on the success of The Exorcist and throws […]
Tag Archives: The Exorcist
The Exorcist: Believer
Inspired by The Exorcist‘s defiling of a childhood bedroom, director David Gordon Green trashes a beloved property in this heretical sequel. 50 years after the events of William Friedkin’s Catholic […]
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 […]
Prey for the Devil
The Great Exorcism Swindle is alive and well thanks to director Daniel Stamm, whose erroneously titled The Last Exorcism was immediately followed by the Damien Chazelle-penned The Last Exorcism Part […]
Alice, Sweet Alice
A withdrawn 12-year-old (Paula Sheppard) becomes the prime suspect when her younger sister (Brooke Shields) is murdered during her first communion, in Alice, Sweet Alice – AKA Communion, Holy Terror and Feather Ded. OK I […]
Ju-on: The Grudge
This is the Japanese chiller from 2002 as opposed to the Sarah Michelle Gellar remake which I refuse to watch for the same reasons I won’t see the Naomi Watts Ring remake. I’m […]
Sorcerer
Transporting gallons of nitroglycerin through the jungle, Roy Scheider and his crew drive to the very edge of survival – a bit like Jaws, except this 1977 existential thriller was a […]
Hell Night
Linda Blair stars in Hell Night – not a documentary about the recent American election, but a slasher movie from 1981. Four college kids spend a night in a murder house […]
The Sting
Paul Newman and Robert Redford execute the perfect long con in George Roy Hill’s 1973 caper. Nothing to do with the boring musician of the same name, The Sting reunites the […]
Bug
Not to be confused with the Adam Buxton show of the same name, Bug is a 2006 horror film directed by William Friedkin about an alcoholic woman (Ashley Judd) and a paranoid […]
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