It’s been a while since I’ve subjected myself to one of writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s films. I believe the last one I watched was Glass in 2019. That movie, like much of Shyamalan’s recent work, was disappointing. I haven’t yet bothered to watch 2021’s Old mainly because reviews have saidContinue Reading
Edward D. Wood, Jr. is widely known as one of the worst directors with whom Hollywood has ever had the pleasure of dealing. While I’ve seen Plan 9 from Outer Space, the film that is considered his “masterpiece,” many times, I’d never seen any of his other movies. I decidedContinue Reading
“Inspired by true events,” claims the advertising campaign for Cocaine Bear, a movie about a bear that ingests cocaine and goes on a murder spree through a national park in Georgia. Yes, there really was a bear that came across some cocaine dumped from an airplane. Yes, it ate some.Continue Reading
1999’s Ravenous is a strange little movie. It’s essentially a cannibal western that features character actors like Guy Pearce (Memento) and Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty.) It’s hard to believe it was released by a mainstream film company. Yet, here we are. Pearce stars as Boyd, a U.S. Army soldierContinue Reading
1974’s Black Christmas opens with a first-person shot of a man approaching a sorority house, peering inside, and then climbing the lattice work to enter an unlocked window. We then cut to the inside of the house as the sisters wind up a Christmas party and prepare to go toContinue Reading
Last year, I read about a study that said, based on viewers’ heart rates, that 2012’s Sinister was the scariest movie ever made. Of course, like any study, there are bound to be doubters and skeptics asking “Well, what other movies did they watch?” or similar questions. Regardless, I’d neverContinue Reading
American Greta Evans (Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny at an isolated English mansion. When she meets the boy she’s been charged to care for, she laughs nervously. He’s not a boy, but a porcelain doll. His parents, the elderly Mr. and Mrs. Heelshire (Jim Norton and DianaContinue Reading