Not to sound prudish, but this entry in the franchise was just a bit… unpleasant. Ellie, a single mother of three after her partner left her, struggles to raise her kids in their soon-to-be-condemned flat in an old city block. When her sister, Beth, visits, a freak earthquake opens up a hidden vault within the…
Tag: horror
Review: M3GAN
Haunted doll movie is self-aware, and in more ways than one! A roboticist becomes the legal guardian of her niece at the same time she breaks new ground in robot technology: M3GAN. A robot designed to be part of the family… While Insidious and The Conjuring director James Wan has his name on it, he…
Review: Renfield
You thought vampires were done? Apparently not! Decades after their fateful meeting, Robert M. Renfield is still an immortal familiar of Count Dracula. But even after all these years, Renfield starts to want more out of life than servitude. When studying the DNA of this film, the end result makes a lot of sense. Directed…
Review: Cocaine Bear
That sure was a bear on cocaine! A drug cartel’s supply of cocaine is ejected out of a plane only to scatter across the American Georgian forests, only for a black bear to go on an addiction rampage. Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Cocaine Bear is… well, it is what the title implies. Probably up there…
Review: The Black Phone
You know what? This is a solid horror movie. Taking place in the 70s, the film follows Finn and his sister Gwen, in they neighbourhood where children go missing. When Finn finds himself abducted, his only hope of escape is a disconnected black phone in his cell… Director Scott Derrickson, who also made Sinister and…
Review: Nope
There something Human Centipede about this… A family of horse ranchers who have a history in Hollywood, experience strange goings on in their valley after a death in the family… “Academy Award Winner” Jordan Peele, director of horror hits such as Get Out and Us, returns to the big screen with Nope, after a spell…
Review: Men
Possibly the most over-indulgent film by Alex Garland yet… When a woman’s husband kills himself, she rents out an old manor in the English countryside to escape the haunting memories. However, the town doesn’t seem to be all as it appears, and her escape might be taking a completely different route. Alex Garland is something…
Video Games of 2021
It is this time of year again! 2021 wasn’t quite the bright new dawn expected after 2020, with the persistent danger of Covid-19 variant “Omicron” this winter. So while I might have caught a couple more films this year in the cinema, I’ve been reluctant to see as many as I originally planned to. With…
Review: The Invisible Man
Like the Joker rising from the flailing DCEU, The Invisible Man is a surprising turn of events. After escaping a life living with her abuser, Cecilia tries to go back to living a normal life. Yet even after the news of his death, she can’t quite accept that he is gone. Is it the trauma,…
Review: It – Chapter 2
A slightly repetitive story structure does not inhibit an entertaining time! The kids from Derry, Maine, have left the town and grown up to have lives of their own. But Mike, who remained in Derry, contacts them all twenty-seven years after their traumatic experiences, and tells them to come home. The clown Pennywise has returned,…