Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ is So Smart, It’s Stupid
Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ throws concepts together in a German dance academy, covers them with fake blood, and hopes you won’t notice how bored you are.
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31 Days of Horror: ‘Halloween: Resurrection’ Proves Some Things Should Stay Dead
Watch with glazed boredom as Dimension Films runs a once beloved franchise into the ground with ‘Halloween: Resurrection,’ a dreadful experience in awfulness.
31 Days Of Horror: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival – “Holiday”
While its graphic nature is already the stuff of legend, there’s more to Isabella Eklov’s clinical and terrifying first feature, ‘Holiday,’ than that one scene.
‘First Man’ is Great, But It Had the Potential To Be Even Better
The depiction of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, ‘First Man,’ is a treat for the eyes, but suffers an emotional coldness that hampers its connection with the audience.
‘A Star Is Born’ Is Fantastic, but the True Star is Sam Elliott
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga shine in the most recent iteration of ‘A Star is Born,’ but Sam Elliott is the one who deserves the highest praise.
31 Days of Horror: ‘Halloween: H20 – 20 Years Later’ Begins the Haddonfield Multiverse
‘Halloween: H20 – 20 Years Later’ takes everything you know about the franchise, runs it through a meat grinder, and winds up a bloody mess.
31 Days of Horror: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival – “Empathy, Inc.”
BHFF selection ‘Empathy, Inc.’ overcomes its budget limitation by focusing on character to tell its virtual reality horror story.
31 Days of Horror: ‘The Book of Birdie’ Examines the Mysticism of Faith and Blood
‘The Book of Birdie’ is a mystical horror fantasy, dripping with blood, but not in the way most genre horror fans would expect.
31 Days of Horror: Venom is a Flawed, but Fun Time at the Movies
Venom suffers from a slow start, but once the film gets rolling in the second act, it becomes a fun and entertaining addition to the superhero genre.
31 Days Of Horror: Can Evrenol’s ‘Housewife’ is a Respectably Ambitious Step Forward
Can Evrenol is nothing if not a student of the horror game, and his new film Housewife plays out like a highlight reel of his influences.
31 Days of Horror: Nicolas Cage Expert Lindsay Gibb on ‘Mandy’
In this instalment of 31 Days of Horror, Nicolas Cage expert Lindsay Gibb looks at the actor’s latest foray into the horror genre, Mandy.
TIFF 2018 – Die By the Blade: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Killing
Killing is a movie featuring samurais that isn’t so much of a samurai movie as it is a Shinya Tsukamoto movie that has samurais in it.