2005’s Isolation is a chilling Irish horror film written and directed by Billy O’Brien. Set on a desolate, run-down farm in rural Ireland, the story revolves around Dan (John Lynch), a farmer struggling to make ends meet. Desperate for money, he reluctantly agrees to let a mysterious doctor conduct secretContinue Reading
2024’s Cuckoo follows Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), who is taken to the Alps by her father after he remarries. They are there to oversee the building of a new resort. Dan Stevens plays Herr Konig, the current resort manager and a family friend. Gretchen is uncomfortable in her new surroundings, unsettledContinue Reading
A Dark Song centers on Sophia (Catherine Walker), who enlists the help of an occultist named Joseph Solomon (Steve Oram) to perform a ritual in a secluded house with the aim of contacting her deceased son. The dynamic and interaction between Sophia and Solomon during the intense ritual are keyContinue Reading
When I found a heavily discounted Blu-ray copy of The Cursed at a store known for selling overstock, I didn’t have high hopes for it. The cover art looked cheap and it didn’t stand out from the myriad of B-movie horror titles with which it shared the racks. But, IContinue Reading
When The Guardian was released in 1990, the studio’s marketing department made sure that everyone knew that William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, was behind the camera. Even the opening credits of the movie use the same typeface (or one that’s very similar) as the iconic 1973 horror classic. WhileContinue Reading
It just wouldn’t feel like a Halloween Fifteen if I didn’t include a film adaptation of a Stephen King novel. As I’ve noted in the past, movies based on King’s literary works have a notoriously uneven track record. To me, 1983’s Christine is more a product of its director, JohnContinue Reading
The Last Voyage of the Demeter is based on a single chapter of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. The novel that has spawned hundreds of spinoffs of its own in film, literature, and popular culture didn’t warrant a two-hour movie focused solely on one of its 27 chapters, did it?Continue Reading