John Krasinski’s sci-fi horror A Quiet Place is possibly one of the best films of the 21st Century. A gripping, relentlessly tense terror that left audiences leaving the cinema with full pots of popcorn for fear of making a noise. He then gave us the decent sequel, A Quiet Place Part II. Now, with Kransinski…
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The First Omen
The trend of rebooting classic horrors continues with a prequel to the 1976 classic The Omen. After the failure to capture the spirit (get it?) of The Exorcist with The Exorcist: Believer, The First Omen had meagre expectations. As the original was an Exorcist rip-off, would we get another generic horror film that relies on…
Five Nights At Freddy’s
Going into Five Nights At Freddy’s, I knew little about its history. Based on a video game, I knew this was a horror film based around large animatronic creatures, so immediately it brought images of Nicolas Cage’s Willy’s Wonderland, which came out a few years ago, where the Cage had to spend a night with…
The Nun II
Do you remember the 2018 Conjuring spin-off, The Nun? No, neither do I. The film was obviously a success, otherwise Warner Bros wouldn’t produce this sequel, which continues the story set up in the original film. If you can’t remember that film, then you are going to be a little confused, for while this could…
Evil Dead Rise
When the original Evil Dead was released in 1982, it caused controversy and disdain from the Conservative press due to its graphic and horrific content. It became one of the notoriously banned video nasties and wasn’t rereleased until the late 90s when it became a cult favourite. After seeing the new film Evil Dead Rise,…
Renfield
There have been dozens of movies about the most iconic character in horror history, Count Dracula, but never has the attention been on his familiar, the reluctant servant, Renfield, until now. We have a new comedy horror that looks like a dream on paper, with a fantastic cast and a plot that certainly adds a…
Scream VI
While in the cinema foyer, waiting to watch Scream VI, one of the managers asked me if I was prepared to be scared! My immediate reaction was, “from a Scream movie?” Scream was never a scary movie but a film that parodied other slasher movies. That was when Wes Craven was at the helm, and…
Cocaine Bear
Some titles of movies you have to really think about. Others are self-explanatory. Cocaine Bear does precisely what it says on the tin. Like other nature terrorises films following the same lines as Jaws, this darkly comic gore-fest never takes itself too seriously. After the recent crop of award wannabes dealing with heavy and vital…
The Menu
A few weeks ago, we had the satire Triangle of Sadness, which depicted the rich and wealthy having a time on board a luxury yacht. Now we have The Menu, a perfect companion to the movie, as mentioned earlier, in which we have an exclusive restaurant for the super-rich, which turns out to be a…
Halloween Ends
In 2018, co-writer and director David Gordon Green gave us a new sequel to John Carpenter’s classic horror, Halloween. What made this film different from other sequels was that it dismissed everything that happened after the original and that this was going to finally close the book on Michael Myers. We all thought it ended…
Smile
There seems to be a horror subgenre. The cursed horror is when a person sees something or does something and becomes cursed, then spends the rest of the movie trying to shake off the curse. Movies like The Ring and It Follows are perfect examples. Now we have Smile, which also falls into that sub-genre,…
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