Director Tobe Hooper has garnered an excellent reputation with horror fans on the strengths of 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and 1982’s Poltergeist. Mr. Hooper sadly passed away in 2017. His later films, of which Mortuary is one, were received less enthusiastically by horror audiences. It’s hard to say howContinue Reading
From the film’s synopsis, Angel of Mine sounds like it’s a Lifetime movie-of-the-week. But, thanks to a stellar cast, a decent script, and some fine direction, the film is anything but. Lizzie (Noomi Repace,) a recently divorced mother, still grieves for her deceased baby daughter, Rosie. Although seven years haveContinue Reading
In Killing Season, John Travolta plays Emil Kovac, a member of the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary group that committed war crimes during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s. As the film opens, we see American soldiers liberating some of the Bosnian people from one of the Scorpions’ detention camps.Continue Reading
White Bird in a Blizzard tells the story of Katrina Connors (Shailene Woodley) and her family. Kat is a young woman growing up in a suburban neighborhood in the late 80s. Kat comes home from school one day to find that her mother, Eve (Eva Green,) has mysteriously disappeared. HerContinue Reading
Corporate podcaster Allen (Jasper Hammer) hosts a show called U.S. Sane that features conspiracy theorists and an odd assortment of characters. Allen chooses his subjects from a mail container labeled “Box of Freaks.” After one of the guests commits suicide during a live broadcast, Allen loses his job and facesContinue Reading
As I noted in my review of Assassin 33 A.D., I don’t usually review faith-based movies. Due to their intended audience, they’re inherently review-proof. In the case of Nefarious, I didn’t know going in that it was a faith-based film. Although marketed as a mainstream horror movie, Nefarious unveils itselfContinue Reading
The poster for The Lake, a 2022 creature feature from Thailand, features the tagline “A Monster Will Rise.” And, indeed, a monster does rise. Two of them, in fact. Unfortunately, no one bothered to figure out what to do with these creatures afterwards. So, rise they do. And then theyContinue Reading