By John Corrado In We Bury the Dead, Australian writer-director Zak Hilditch offers his own take on the zombie movie and survival thriller. The film opens with news reports of a magnetic pulse weapon accidentally being deployed by the United States military during testing, killing half-a-million people in Tasmania. Daisy Ridley, continuing her post Disney… Read More Movie Review: We Bury the Dead
By John Corrado Ethan Hawke returns as The Grabber in Black Phone 2, director Scott Derrickson’s followup to his 2021 film The Black Phone. This poses a unique challenge for the horror sequel, seeing as Hawke’s mask-wearing, child-napping serial killer was already killed in the first film. But, as we know from this genre, there… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Black Phone 2 (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado The Conjuring: Last Rites is the fourth and supposedly final film in The Conjuring series that began in 2013, and the ninth (or tenth) film in the horror franchise if you count the various spinoffs we have gotten over the years. The series peaked with the first film and its 2016 sequel,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Conjuring: Last Rites
By John Corrado Him, the new football-themed horror movie from producer Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, is a prime example of a film that has some theoretically interesting ideas, but ultimately fails because they are so poorly executed. The film follows a young football player named Cameron “Cam” Cade (Tyriq Withers), who is given the opportunity… Read More Blu-ray Review: Him (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Shelby Oaks is a horror movie that serves as the crowdfunded feature directorial debut of YouTuber and film critic Chris Stuckmann, now fully dipping his toes into the world of genre filmmaking. It’s easy to root for a film critic making the jump to actually directing (for me at least), and Stuckmann’s… Read More Movie Review: Shelby Oaks
By John Corrado Director Zach Cregger’s Weapons became one of the biggest breakout hits of the year when it was released over the summer, and the film is now available on physical media including 4K Ultra HD. The film centres around a young teacher (played by Julia Garner) who has all but one of the… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Weapons
By John Corrado Good Boy, director Ben Leonberg’s new supernatural horror movie, has been gaining buzz for the uniqueness of its premise; it’s a haunted house movie shown from the perspective of a pet dog. The canine in question is Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Indy’s loyal owner is Todd (Shane Jensen), who… Read More Movie Review: Good Boy
By John Corrado Netflix has just released the official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankentstein, the director’s long-gestating passion project bringing Mary Shelley’s original novel to the screen. I was lucky enough to see this one at TIFF, and came away impressed (you can read my full review from the festival right here). The production… Read More Official Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankentstein
By John Corrado The Long Walk is the long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novella of the same name, an early work by the author that became part of a 1985 short story collection published under the pen name Richard Bachman. That that collection also included The Running Man and Rage, a school shooting story… Read More Movie Review: The Long Walk
By John Corrado Weapons, the ambitious new horror movie from director Zach Cregger who burst onto the scene with Barbarian in 2022, opens with a killer hook. One night, at 2:17am, seventeen kids all woke up, got out of bed, walked out their front doors, and disappeared. At the start of the film, we see… Read More Movie Review: Weapons
By John Corrado A couple find themselves being increasingly bound together in Together, the new body horror rom-com from writer-director Michael Shanks. But the real selling point of the film is the casting of actual couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, whose chemistry adds an extra layer of interest. The real-life married couple star as… Read More Movie Review: Together
By John Corrado Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is one of the most acclaimed and financially successful films of the year, finding that sweet spot as a critically lauded original blockbuster that took off with general audiences as well. The film is now available on 4K Ultra HD. Michael B. Jordan stars in the dual role of… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Sinners
By John Corrado Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have just released the new trailer for Weapons. This is director Zach Cregger’s followup to his breakout horror hit Barbarian, starring Julia Garner as a school teacher dealing with every kid from her classroom going missing one night. It looks disturbing and incredibly well crafted. Cregger’s… Read More New Trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons
By John Corrado Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, we get Dangerous Animals, a clever, entertaining spin on killer shark movies from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones). In Byrne’s film, the sharks aren’t the real villains, and the main threat is actually a different type of predator;… Read More Movie Review: Dangerous Animals
By John Corrado The real life exorcism of Emma Schmidt is said to be the most well documented case of an exorcism and demonic possession in North America. Which is why it’s so disappointing that The Ritual, director David Midell’s dramatized version of these events from nearly a hundred years ago, is so poorly handled.… Read More Movie Review: The Ritual
By John Corrado Bring Her Back is the unnerving sophomore feature from Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, who began their career as YouTubers (under the pseudonym RackaRacka), before branching out and getting noticed with their A24-backed directorial debut Talk to Me. The same studio, A24, is behind their latest effort as well, which finds… Read More Movie Review: Bring Her Back
By John Corrado A recently widowed mother stuck in a farmhouse with her two kids notices a mysterious woman sitting in her yard. At first the woman, who is covered by a black veil, is at a distance, but her chair keeps moving closer to the house. Who is she? Where did she come from?… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Woman in the Yard (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado The Cannes film festival is still going strong over in France, and NEON has just put out the first teaser trailer for French filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, one of the most anticipated films in the Official Competition. This is, of course, Ducournau’s follow-up to her 2021 shock Palme d’Or winner Titane (and… Read More Teaser Trailer for Julia Ducournau’s Alpha
By John Corrado There’s this idea introduced at the start of director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners about how every culture has a different word for people who can play music so powerful that it can transcend spirit worlds and “pierce the veil” between the living and the dead. It’s a theme that is prevalent throughout Blues… Read More Movie Review: Sinners
By John Corrado You have to respect a film title that tells you exactly what to expect. Think Snakes on a Plane. Or Clown in a Cornfield. That’s the pretty self-explanatory title of this mostly fun new killer clown movie from director Eli Craig, best known for his cult favourite 2010 horror comedy Tucker &… Read More Movie Review: Clown in a Cornfield
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