The underrated sequel (Unmarked Spoilers) The OG Ghostbusters are back, baby. You got Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson). After saving the world by besting a literal god, everything should be coming up roses, right? Wrong. Much like Men in Black 2 or Alien 3, this is …
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If there’s something strange…
The beloved original and not so beloved remake. (Unmarked Spoilers) Ghostbusters is a 1984 film about an awesome Ray Parker Jr. song and nothing else. I’m kidding, of course. It’s about the antics of a team of ghost hunters as they try to save the city from a supernatural menace. The film was remade in 2016, …
Downtown
Not what I was expecting in the best ways. (Massive Unmarked Spoilers) Eloise “Ellie” Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) has recently come to Soho to study at the London College of Fashion. Except when she goes to sleep, she’s transported to her dream destination, the Swingin Sixties. More specifically, she sees through the eyes of Sandie (Anya …
Should this be Halloween 3 or 10?
Either way, it’s not the final chapter. (Unmarked Spoilers) Michael Meyers (James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle). Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Halloween. You know the drill by now.
Shhhhh
Here’s proof that sometimes you don’t need a sequel. (Unmarked Spoilers) Years after Rocky (Jane Levy) and her crew broke into his house to rob him, the Blind Man (Stephen Lang) is now raising a daughter, a young girl named Phoenix (Madelyn Grace). Their relationship is loving but starting to become strained due to the …
Oldie, but not a goodie
Well, that should have been better. (Unmarked Spoilers) Guy (Gael García Bernal) and Prisca Cappa (Vicky Krieps) decide to give their kids one last vacation as a family at a luxury resort before telling them they’re getting a divorce. Unfortunately for the family, they and several other strangers wind up trapped on a beach that …
…Die if I want to, die if I want to
What? It’s a catchy song. (Unmarked Spoilers) Slumber Party Massacre, directed by Danishka Esterhazy and written by Suzanne Keilly, follows in the tracks of Evil Dead and Fast & Furious where it’s a sequel and/or remake that retains the original title, just without the ‘The.’ It follows Dana (Hannah Gonera), who’s decided to go on …
Tales from the Mortuary
The even-numbered segments are the best. (Unmarked Spoilers) Montgomery Dark (Clancy Brown) is the mortician of Raven’s End. Presumably because of all of the ravens they’ve got lying around. One day, following the funeral of a young boy, Montgomery hires a new assistant, Sam (Caitlin Fisher). He proceeds to tell her all kinds of twisted …
Cancerous
Hello old friend. (Massive Spoilers Unmarked) Malignant was advertised as a new vision of terror from James Wan. He first burst onto the scene as the director of Saw before moving on to several better movies like The Conjuring, Insidious, and Aquaman. The plot of this movie concerns a woman named Madison (Annabelle Wallis), who …
Ain’t we got fun
The movie’s precisely what the title implies. (Unmarked Spoilers) The year is 1983. Joel (Evan Marsh) is a reporter for a horror movie magazine who has an unrequited crush on his roommate, Sarah (Alexa Rose Steele). One night he decides to follow Sarah’s latest date, Bob (Ari Millen), to a bar to record him saying …