Phew, now I’m all caught up (Unmarked Spoilers) The article which you are about to read is an account of eight horror films spanning six decades. Each installment concerns the exploits of the masked killer Leatherface and his murderous family. In light of a new entry coming out in less than a week, I decided …
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Be my victim
Say my name. (Unmarked Spoilers) Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is an artist living with his art gallery director girlfriend Brianna (Teyonah Parris). Searching for inspiration for his next project, Anthony meets Cabrini-Green resident William Burke (Colman Domingo), introducing him to the legend of the Candyman. The vengeful spirit of a black man killed due …
Sweets to the sweet
Say my name (Unmarked Spoilers) Candyman, the writing on the wall. Candyman, the whisper in the classroom. Candyman, not the one that mixes it with love and makes the world taste good. Candyman, the one that was created by Clive Barker for his short story “The Forbidden” and later adapted by Bernard Rose for his …
Scary Movie
Not my favorite, but still pretty good. (Massive Unmarked Spoilers) The fifth installment of the Scream trilogy opens with Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) stuck home alone when she hears her landline ringing. When she picks up the phone, she’s greeted by a voice (Roger L. Jackson) and then attacked by someone wearing a familiar costume. …
A child’s plaything
A review of Chucky season 1. (Unmarked Spoilers) Chucky is the latest iteration of the long-running Child’s Play series. Each installment concerns serial killer Charles Lee Ray aka Chucky (Brad Dourif). Right before his death, he transferred his soul into a doll, eventually learning how to split his soul into multiple vessels at once. And now he’s back …
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.
…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 …
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), …
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 …
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 …
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