Midnight Mass is the latest creation from Mike Flanagan, the talented director/creator who brought us The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, and Absentia. Flanagan’s attention to detail makes Midnight Mass an engrossing series that benefits from repeated viewings. His works creep up on you over time; moving from good to spectacular. Midnight Mass is […]
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Candyman, written by Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and directed by Nia DaCosta, takes us back to a now gentrified Cabrini-Green. The previous Candyman from 1992 dealt with issues of race and poverty through the white lens of visitor Helen Lyle; this new one focuses on racism and white violence through a Black people
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The Night House looks at grief through horror elements but is more about the psychological toll loss can take. There may never be another horror film that…
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Don’t Say Its Name shows us horror through the tales and culture of the Indigenous community. It’s a unique horror lens, and the story, execution feel like…
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I Am Lisa is small-town lycanthropy horror sizzling in the middle of a revenge film. The film, written by Eric Winkler and directed by Patrick Rea, has some of the standard elements often seen in both werewolf and revenge films. Town sheriff that lets their family-run amok terrorizing the town? Check. However, the unique quality
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Fear Street Part 1: 1994, based on the Fear Street books by R.L. Stine with the story written by Kyle Killen and Phil Graziadei, and directed by Leigh Janiak, is a horrorfest. As a fan of the Fear Street books, which I read around the time this film takes place, I went in hopeful and
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Agnes, directed by Mickey Reece and written by Mickey Reece and John Selvidge, is an assortment of tones. It shifts from drama, comedy, and horror in a whirlwind. However, it ultimately leaves the movie lackluster. It entertains initially, but after a while, those shifts in tone and story may leave audiences bewildered. Viewers may not
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Untitled Horror Movie, directed by Nick Simon and written by Luke Baines and Nick Simon, is a meta horror-comedy about a group of actors on a soon-to-be-canceled show. The cast is recognizable, especially if you watch shows. There’s Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why), Clair Holt (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals), Emmy Raver-Lampman (The Umbrella Academy),
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Spiral: From The Book Of Saw, written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, continues the Saw franchise. Spiral follows a particularly troubling copycat who targets cops. Given real life police brutality, it’s no wonder Spiral would venture in this direction. After all, the blue wall of silence shields officers
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Djinn is a horror movie written and directed by Justin Powell and David Charbonier and stars Ezra Dewey as Dylan Jacobs, a mute boy who has to face off with a djinn after doing a ritual to grant him a wish. While Djinn is not one of a kind—neither djinns nor wishes gone awry are
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