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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'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 Lasley3 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 Lasley3 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 Lasley3 years ago in Horror
- Top Story - October 2021
‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’ Movie ReviewTop Story - October 2021
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 Lasley3 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 Lasley3 years ago in Horror
- Top Story - September 2021
‘Candyman’ (2021) Movie ReviewTop Story - September 2021
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 Lasley3 years ago in Horror
‘Don’t Breathe 2’ Movie Review
In this sequel to 2016’s Don’t Breathe, the Blind Man (Stephen Lang) has now adopted a young child (Madelyn Grace) and is raising her as his own. He teaches her everything he knows about survival, but when a group of strange men come looking for her, the Blind Man will have to finally confront his past and the villain he once was.
By Will Lasley3 years ago in Horror
‘The Amusement Park’ Movie Review
The Amusement Park is a surreal educational film, of sorts, about a man (Lincoln Maazel) who finds himself in a strange park where he is met with hostility from the staff and patrons, and many of the attractions have bizarre rules and consequences.
By Will Lasley3 years ago in Horror
- Top Story - June 2021
‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Movie ReviewTop Story - June 2021
In director John Krasinski’s sequel to the 2018 runaway horror hit, the now-widowed Evelyn Abbott (Emily Blunt) and her three children, oldest Regan (Millicent Simmonds), middle child Marcus (Noah Jupe), and infant (unnamed and unattributed), find a reluctant ally in Emmett (Cillian Murphy), an old family friend turned expert survivalist. When the kids figure out that there are people hiding out on an island that’s supposedly uninhabited by the monsters, they find a glimmer of hope. But it turns out that the killer alien creatures aren’t the only adversaries they’ll have to face.
By Will Lasley3 years ago in Horror
‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ Movie Review
Spiral, a new spinoff of the highly popular Saw franchise, is about a Jigsaw copycat targeting police officers in New York. Detective Zeke Banks (Chris Rock), an officer who is resented by his peers after he turned in a dirty cop, as well as living in the shadow of his father (Samuel L. Jackson), the former police chief, must track down the killer and solve the mystery, along with his new partner, Detective William Schenk (Max Minghella).
By Will Lasley3 years ago in Horror
‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Movie Review
In this epic kaiju crossover, Kong is being quarantined on Skull Island in order to protect him from Godzilla, hoping to prevent an inevitable fight for dominance. When a company called Apex discovers there may be a hidden prehistoric world at the center of the Earth, the same world from which all of these giant monsters supposedly came, the head of Apex (Demián Bichir) approaches a scientist (Alexander Skarsgård) to lead an expedition there. It turns out that Kong may be the secret to finding this hidden world, so he is transported to a research site in Antarctica, along with his handler (Rebecca Hall) and a little girl who is seemingly able to communicate with him (Kaylee Hottle). But not only does this put Godzilla on his trail, it is clear that Apex is hiding something, and young Madison Russell (Millie Bobby Brown), her friend Josh (Julian Dennison), and a conspiracy podcaster (Bryan Tyree Henry) are determined to find out what they’re up to.
By Will Lasley3 years ago in Geeks
‘Wrong Turn’ (2021) Movie Review
In this revamp of the 2003 fan favorite, original screenwriter Alan McElroy returns to tell an all-new story about a different group of twentysomethings (Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Vardaan Arora, Adrien Favela) who venture into the Appalachian backwoods and encounter an independent tribal society deep in the forest. After they disappear, one of the women’s fathers (Matthew Modine) decides to come looking for them.
By Will Lasley3 years ago in Horror