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 …
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Jenny Jenny, you’re the girl for me
This wasn’t quite what I was expecting. (Unmarked Spoilers) Jennifer’s Body is a horror-comedy initially released in 2009. I remember watching this movie and not liking it, which was true for a lot of people. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office failure. In recent years, people’s opinions have become much more …
Blood and Water Part 2
If I knew I was going to make two of these, I would have picked a better title. (Unmarked Spoilers) When we left off, Spencer Galloway (David Cronenberg), heartless b*****d, has set up a series of contests on a private island to determine who will become his heir. Among the contestants are Liv (Sydney Meyer), …
Was ‘do it’ making this movie?
The third time is not the charm. Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) are back. Their latest exorcism goes horribly wrong. Ed ends up in the hospital after a heart attack. And if that’s bad enough, instead of being expelled, the demon merely jumps from David Glatzel (Julian Hilliard) to Arne Johnson (Ruairi …
Better Half
Find out what’s been eating her. (Unmarked Spoilers) Anne Fedder (Barbara Crampton) is the stifled wife of Jakob (Larry Fessenden), a minister who is so dedicated to his job that he wears his collar all the time. He leaves a lot to be desired in terms of being a husband, though. He talks over her, …
The Extra-Terrestrial
What a great piece of movie nostalgia. One day siblings Mimi (Nita-Josée Hanna) and Luke (Owen Myre) discover an ancient sarcophagus buried in their backyard. It contains an alien overlord they nickname Psycho Goreman (Matthew Ninaber, voiced by Steven Vlahos), or PG for short. Eons ago, he was imprisoned by the Templars before he could …
Blood and Water
F*****g rich people. (Unmarked Spoilers) Slasher is a Canadian anthology series that takes the slasher movie format and expands it to eight episodes. Each season is a self-contained story with a different killer, though it implies that The Executioner (Season 1) and Guilty Party (Season 2) at least occur in the same universe. The show’s …
Fly the Unfriendly Skies
At least there’s nothing on the wing of the plane. (Unmarked Spoilers) Nadja (Peri Baumeister) and her son Elias (Carl Anton Koch) are traveling from Germany to the United States so that Nadja can partake in a special treatment program to cure her vampirism. Unfortunately, their plane ends up getting hijacked by terrorists. Berg, the …
Scary Movies
What’s your favorite? (Unmarked Spoilers) Scream and its first three sequels were a series of slasher movies that horror master Wes Craven directed. Instead of sticking two or more reviews under a single post like I usually do with franchises, I decided to instead look at the series up to this point. I hoped that …
Terror Trilogy
And I thought living on Elm Street was bad. (Unmarked Spoilers) Ah, R. L. Stine. Growing up, I loved Goosebumps. It was the first series I got into reading on my own, as opposed to Captain Underpants and the Magic Shop, which got read to me. I never read Fear Street, though. From what I …