Ah, two of my favorite genres combined. Porno is set in 1992 and concerns a movie theatre that stresses strong Christian values to its employees, the most subtly named of which is Chasity (Jillian Mueller) or Chaz for short. One night they discover this mysterious film reel that they decide to watch after work. The …
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Deaky
Gotta get down on Friday. Life has not been going well for Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton). Her dad’s dead, leading her mom Coral (Katie Finneran) to become an alcoholic. She gets bullied by mean girl Ryler (Melissa Collazo), shop teacher Mr. Bernadi (Alan Ruck), and all the jocks at her school besides dreamboat Booker (Uriah …
Head in the clouds
The main character’s in for a real nightmare. Shadow in the Cloud follows Maude Garrett (Chloë Grace Moretz), a Flight Officer fighting alongside the Allies in WWII. At the very last minute, she boards the Fool’s Errand, a bomber plane, with a mysterious package and note saying she will accompany the crew. Given the lack of space …
Pick up every stitch
Meet the black sheep of the franchise (Unmarked Spoilers) As the horror fans among you would know, but perhaps not anyone else, Halloween III: Season of the Witch is not about Michael Meyers. The man, the myth, the legend doesn’t even appear in the film outside of a brief cameo in a tv commercial. Series writer and …
Polar opposites
Witness two films about the same thing be vastly different. (Unmarked Spoilers) Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile is the latest biopic about serial killer Ted Bundy (Zac Efron). It’s based on The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall (Lily Collins), which provides a detailed account of Kendall’s life as Bundy’s girlfriend and sometimes …
Aren’t we glad that the folks are gone
That’s what you get for staying up past your bedtime. (Unmarked Spoilers) In The Babysitter, we meet Cole (Judah Lewis), a 12-year-old kid afraid of needles, driving, and standing up to his bullies, who encompass practically everyone around him. All of which will probably have you quoting Tim Roth’s character in Hardcore Henry. (‘You. Little. …
We can be villains
Just for one day. Villains stars Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe, both previously in popular horror films about a shapeshifting it. Yes, the two of them playing a couple is much too ironic to be a coincidence. To be more specific, they are Mickey and Jules are two young thieves on the run with dreams of …
VVitch v. Blackcoat’s Daughter
Who will win? (Unmarked Spoilers) My final assignment for my gender and horror class was the comparison project. I was to analyze two different films using the knowledge and skills I had acquired as part of the course. I was also to compare the two films and decide which one should be included in future …
Hakuna matata Vagina dentata
I’d like to thank my college professor for giving me that title. (Unmarked Spoilers) Teeth is about a girl who, upon being sexually assaulted, discovers that she has a second pair of teeth down there, which bites the rapist’s d**k off. I heard someone tell me about the time they watched this movie with their girl …
Way to make a coma look good.
The difference between life and death is as long as a heartbeat. (Unmarked Spoilers) Before there was Rick Grimes, Jim (Cillian Murphy) slept through the zombie apocalypse first. Now, there also seems to be some debate over whether the people infected with the rage virus in 28 Days Later are zombies. Yes, yes they are, because while the infected …