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
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
I was only a few minutes into Zero Hour! when I recognized the name Ted Striker or, as it is spelled in the movie, Ted Stryker. The name of the protagonist of this 1957 thriller, as played by Dana Andrews, is the same as the protagonist of 1980’s Airplane!, asContinue 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
After losing her husband in a mountain-climbing accident, Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) falls into a year-long depression. Her best friend, Hunter (Virginia Gardner) decides that the best way to get Becky to face the world again is to take her on another climbing adventure. Hunter plans to scale the 2000Continue Reading
Before writing Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton penned the script for and directed a movie about another technology-driven amusement park where the attractions go amok: 1973’s Westworld. Instead of genetically modified dinosaurs running rampant, Westworld features human-like robots that ignore their programming and go after the tourists. The film sets upContinue 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