Will Lasley
Bio
I’m an actor and director of stage and screen. But I also dabble in standup, and on this site, horror movie criticism. I’m just a guy who loves horror movies, and I like to share that love with the world.
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'X' Movie Review
Indie darling Ti West returns to horror with X, a movie about a group of pornographers in 1979 who rent a spare house on an old farmer's (Stephen Ure) property to shoot an adult film, unbeknownst to the farmer. There's Maxine (Mia Goth), the ambitious, aspiring star, Wayne (Martin Henderson), the producer and Maxine's lover, Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), a sweet southern belle with a lust for life and a love of her craft, Jackson (Scott Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi), the black stud and former soldier, RJ (Owen Campbell), a film student hired to direct who wants to make the film more sophisticated than your typical porno, and his girlfriend Lorraine (Jenna Ortega), a shy girl who is not particularly comfortable with the work they're doing. While there is plenty of drama between the cast and crew, the farmer's wife (also played by Mia Goth in heavy old-age makeup) is both disgusted and jealous of their virility, having lived such a sexually repressed life, and she decides to take her rage and pain out on them.
By Will Lasleyabout a year ago in Horror
'The Batman' Movie Review
In The Batman, Robert Pattinson dons the cowl as the Caped Crusader in the first of a new series of films. Batman is now two years into his tenure as Gotham City's vengeful protector when a cryptic serial killer known as the Riddler (Paul Dano) emerges and begins picking off Gotham's elite, revealing the most grotesque skeletons in their closets in the process. With the help of his butler, Alfred (Andy Serkis), police lieutenant James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright), and a new, slightly more reckless crime-fighter named Selina Kyle (Zoë Kravitz), Batman must stop the Riddler's reign of terror, unraveling the city's dark past in the process.
By Will Lasleyabout a year ago in Geeks
‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (2022) Movie Review
This second attempt at a Texas Chainsaw requel (with the first being the abysmal Texas Chainsaw 3D from 2013) sees a group of social media influencers buying up a Texas ghost town in order to refurbish it into a new sort of influencer hub. These include Melody (Sarah Yarkin), her sister Lila (Elsie Fisher), the ringleader Dante (Jacob Latimore), and their other friend Ruth (Nell Hudson). When they arrive in town, they meet an old woman (Alice Krige) still living on the premises in what used to be an orphanage. It turns out that she’s also harboring Leatherface (Mark Burnham), and he’s out for revenge.
By Will Lasleyabout a year ago in Horror
‘Scream’ (2022) Movie Review
2022’s Scream picks up just over a decade after where Scream 4 left off, this time riffing on the new trend of “requels” (long-belated sequels to horror classics meant to reignite a franchise). After a girl named Tara (Jenna Ortega) is attacked by a Ghostface copycat, her sister Sam (Melissa Barrera), and Sam’s boyfriend, Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid), contact the now-retired Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette) to help them survive someone’s obvious attempt at a requel to the infamous Woodsboro murders. And soon, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) have no choice but to get involved.
By Will Lasleyabout a year ago in Horror
‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Movie Review
In this long-awaited follow-up to the 80’s classic, Callie (Carrie Coon) and her two children, Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), move to a secluded farmhouse in Oklahoma that was left to them by Carrie’s estranged father. It turns out that Carrie’s father was none other than former Ghostbuster Egon Spengler, and when a supernatural force is unleashed once again, just as Spengler had predicted before his death, his descendants, along with Phoebe’s summer school teacher Mr. Grooberson (Paul Rudd), must stop this evil once and for all.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Geeks
‘Antlers’ Movie Review
Antlers is the latest film from director Scott Cooper, based on a short story by co-screenwriter Nick Antosca. A little boy named Lucas (Jeremy T. Thomas) has a pretty rough life. He lives in squalor, he’s bullied relentlessly at school, and worst of all, his methhead father (Scott Haze) is possessed by the spirit of a demonic creature from Native American folklore called a wendigo. When his teacher (Keri Russell) begins to notice a troubling pattern in her behavior, she decides to investigate. All the while, her brother, the town sheriff (Jesse Plemmons), is terrified of what could be the cause of a string of horribly mangled bodies turning up.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Horror
'Halloween Kills' Movie Review
Picking up mere minutes after the events of Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills follows the three generations of Strode women, Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), and her granddaughter Alyson (Andi Matichak), as they recover from the slew of murders committed by the returned Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney). In the wake of said murders, the town becomes restless, and a mob led by a now-grown Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), the young boy whom Laurie was babysitting back in 1978, is out for blood.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Horror
'V/H/S/94' Movie Review
V/H/S/94 is the latest in the V/H/S found footage anthology series. In this entry, which takes place (of course) in 1994, a SWAT team is raiding an abandoned warehouse which formerly housed a cult, and they come across a collection of snuff films. Each of these tapes features a different tale of horror, and each of them were written and directed by different filmmakers. This gives each story their own unique aura.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Horror
‘Lamb’ Movie Review
Lamb is an Icelandic film about Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), a couple who live/work on a sheep farm. After one of their ewes gives birth to an anomalous sheep-human hybrid, they decide to raise it as their child. But, as is typical of a movie like this, things begin to unravel as secrets are discovered.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Horror
‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’ Movie Review
Set in a bizarre, post-apocalyptic pastiche of Eastern and Western culture, a famed bank robber known only as “Hero” (Nicolas Cage) is called upon by the sleazy Governor of Samurai Town (Bill Mosely) to rescue his missing adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella). He is strapped into a leather jumpsuit with explosive nodes attached to his neck, arms, and testicles, and informed that the devices will be detonated if he fails or refuses to comply. Now the Hero must venture into the desert expanse known as “the Ghostland” to retrieve Bernice within three days in order to win back his own life.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Horror
‘Malignant’ Movie Review
In the latest film from horror veteran James Wan, Malignant follows a woman named Madison (Annabelle Wallis) who develops a sort of psychic connection with a mysterious killer, forcing her to watch him slaughter people telepathically. It turns out that these bizarre, real-time visions could be linked to something from Madison’s past, and she and her adoptive sister, Sydney (Maddie Hasson), are tasked with uncovering these dark secrets in order to prevent more grisly murders from happening.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Horror
‘Candyman’ (2021) Movie Review
Candyman (2021), the latest in the current trend of belated sequels to classic movies, is about Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), an artist in Chicago who visits the now-gentrified Cabrini Green housing project and learns the legend of Candyman, a hook-handed, fur-coated supernatural killer who appears if you say his name five times while looking in a mirror. Inspired by the legend, Anthony creates an art installation meant to invite viewers to summon the titular killer. But of course, people around him begin to die, and his grip on reality starts to slip.
By Will Lasley2 years ago in Horror
