By John Corrado Fresh off the surprise success of serial killer thriller Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins now returns with a different kind of horror movie in The Monkey. This time it’s a horror comedy, adapted from a Stephen King short story of the same name. Re-teaming with Longlegs distributor NEON, Perkins’ latest finds him playing… Read More Movie Review: The Monkey
By John Corrado Warner Bros. just released the new, full-length trailer for director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Coogler is the director behind Black Panther, Creed and Frutivale Station, and Sinners is his latest collaboration with star Michael B. Jordan. This time around, Jordan stars in a duel role, playing twin brothers. The new trailer shows off… Read More New Trailer for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners
By John Corrado Here’s a nice surprise. Distributor NEON has released the official redband trailer for Finn Wolfhard’s Hell of a Summer, the summer camp slasher that the Stranger Things actor co-directed with friend Billy Byrk. Wolfhard and Byrk also cast themselves in supporting roles, while Fred Hechinger – whose stock as an actor has… Read More Trailer Released for Finn Wolfhard’s Hell of a Summer
By John Corrado Distributor NEON has just released the new full-length redband trailer for director Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey. This trailer follows the new poster that was released yesterday, which cheekily highlighted all of the gory deaths that will be depicted in the film. The marketing for this one so far has been on point.… Read More New Trailer for Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey
By John Corrado Nosferatu is the fourth film from director Robert Eggers, and it finds him reimagining F.W. Murnau’s German Expressionist film of the same name from 1922. This passion project from Eggers has shades of his 2015 debut The Witch, but on a much larger scale. Whether you view this as a remake of the Murnau… Read More Movie Review: Nosferatu
By John Corrado The 2022 horror movie Smile rode the wave of a concept ready-made for viral marketing campaigns to become a hit at the box office. Add in the fact that the film’s premise basically allowed for near-endless follow-ups, and a sequel was an inevitable case of not if, but when. Writer-director Parker Finn (who expanded… Read More Movie Review: Smile 2
By John Corrado The horror film Longlegs, directed by Osgood Perkins, is one of the biggest success stories of the year, with distributor Neon turning the indie movie into a box office hit. Neon is now re-teaming with Perkins for The Monkey, an adaptation of an old Stephen King short story, and they have just… Read More Teaser Trailer for Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey
By John Corrado Focus Features has just unveiled the new trailer for Nosferatu. This is the latest film from director Robert Eggers, who gave us memorable visions with his trio of films The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman. There are massive expectations on this film – which is inspired by F.W. Murnau‘s 1922 silent… Read More New Trailer Released for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5th to 15th, more information can be found right here. Director Nick Toti’s It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This is a found footage horror movie that definitely works best as a midnight experience shared with an audience. The filmmaker has stated that… Read More #TIFF24 Review: It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The latest vaguely experimental thriller from director Steven Soderbergh, following his self-imposed “retirement” from filmmaking, Presence is a haunted house movie shown from the perspective of the ghost. And it’s… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Presence (Centrepiece)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In her showbiz sendup The Substance, writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) crafts her own bloody take on The Picture of Dorian Gray, mixing extreme body horror and absurd satire of… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Substance (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The seventh instalment in the Alien franchise that began in 1979, Alien: Romulus is a spinoff sequel that is set somewhere between the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 followup Aliens. Directed by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe, the Evil Dead remake), Romulus shares a lot of DNA with Scott’s… Read More Movie Review: Alien: Romulus
By John Corrado The sophomore effort from German writer-director Tilman Singer, Cuckoo is an intentionally bizarre horror movie that draws upon the metaphorical symbolism of the titular cuckoo bird to reimagine genre tropes through Singer’s more unique vision. Our heroine is Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), a 17-year-old girl who travels to Germany with her father (Marton… Read More Movie Review: Cuckoo
By John Corrado The latest film from writer-director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel and Hansel), Longlegs is a deeply unsettling mix of horror movie and police procedural, unfolding with a suffocating atmosphere that keeps us invested right from the chilling opening flashback. Maika Monroe (The Guest, It Follows) stars in the film as Lee… Read More Movie Review: Longlegs
By John Corrado Directed by the Radio Silence duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who are on hiatus from the last two entries in the Scream franchise, Abigail is a very bloody and slightly tongue-in-cheek riff on vampire movies. The film follows a group of criminals who end up in way over their heads… Read More Blu-ray Review: Abigail (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Director Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead is a slow-burn Norwegian zombie movie that takes place in the aftermath of an event that allows the dead to return to life. Based on a book by Let the Right One In scribe John Ajvide Lindqvist (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Hvistendahl), the film… Read More Movie Review: Handling the Undead
By John Corrado Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) is an awkward high school loner in 1989 who falls for the reanimated corpse of a man from the Victorian era whose grave she likes to visit in the horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein, written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body). Following the horror movie death of her mother,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Lisa Frankenstein (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado We’ve all heard of haunted houses, but how about a haunted swimming pool? That’s the premise behind the Blumhouse horror movie Night Swim, which introduces us to the unique concept of a family being terrorized by a cursed pool in their new backyard. The film centres around the Waller family. Ray Waller… Read More Blu-ray Review: Night Swim (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado A young nun begins to discover ominous things are afoot after arriving in Italy. This is the basic plot of the indie horror film Immaculate released two weeks ago. But it’s also the setup for director Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen. Stevenson’s film serves as a surprisingly solid prequel to The Omen,… Read More Movie Review: The First Omen
By John Corrado Late Night with the Devil is an indie horror film from directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes that is built around the inventive concept of being assembled from the lost tapes from a live TV broadcast of an old 1970s late night talk show. David Dastmalchian stars as Jack Delroy, the old school… Read More Movie Review: Late Night with the Devil
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