Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13 is a fascinating early work from a director who would later helm some of the most iconic films in cinematic history. Though far from the grand scale of The Godfather or Apocalypse Now, this psychological thriller — produced by the legendary Roger Corman — demonstratesContinue Reading
The Raven was directed by James McTeigue, known for V for Vendetta. The film tells a fictionalized tale of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe in 1849 Baltimore. In this story, there’s a serial killer (a term the film uses 70 years before it was invented) who murders peopleContinue 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
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
Andrew Cumming’s Stone Age horror film, Out of Darkness, immediately reminded me of 2022’s Prey. It takes a group of people with primitive weapons and pits them against an unseen threat. The difference here is that the adversary doesn’t have high-tech weaponry. But it does have the upper-hand by havingContinue Reading