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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'Beneath Us' Movie Review
Beneath Us is about a very timely subject: immigration. More specifically, it’s about undocumented immigrants and their inherent struggles. Two brothers, Alejandro (Rigo Sanchez) and Memo (Josue Aguirre), have come to America looking to make some money to support their families back in Mexico. They, along with some other undocumented workers (Roberto “Sanz” Sanchez, Thomas Chavira, Nicholas Gonzalez), are hired by an affluent white couple, Liz and Ben Rhodes (Lynn Collins, James Tupper), to do some work on their house. But Liz and Ben decide to use this opportunity to indulge in their more sadistic tendencies, and they demean and torture the poor workers. Knowing that they can’t contact law enforcement, Alejandro, Memo, and the rest must figure out a way to survive and escape.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'Come to Daddy' Movie Review
From longtime horror film producer, but first time director, Ant Timpson, Come to Daddy is the classic tale of a son, Norval (Elijah Wood), attempting to reconnect with his estranged father (Stephen McHattie), who abandoned him and his mother when Norval was little. However, Norval’s dad is extremely competitive and macho, and in an effort to gain his respect, Norval keeps trying to impress him. But their pissing contest goes horribly awry, and it leads down a dark and twisted rabbit hole.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'Swallow' Movie Review
Swallow is the story of Hunter Conrad (Haley Bennett). She has just married a very attractive and successful man (Austin Stowell), and they have a baby on the way. But it soon begins to dawn on her that her husband is controlling every aspect of her life, and she starts to feel the walls closing in on her. As a result of her stress, she develops a very unhealthy habit on a whim: pica, the compulsion to eat inedible objects. As those around her try to help her, it quickly becomes clear that she still has some repressed demons from her past.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'VFW' Movie Review
VFW is about a group of aging veterans hanging out in their local VFW bar: Fred (Stephen Lang), Walter (William Sadler), Abe (Fred "The Hammer" Williamson), Lou (Martin Kove), Doug (David Patrick Kelly), and Thomas (George Wendt). While the gang is celebrating Fred's birthday, a teenager (Sierra McCormick) seeks shelter from an unknown assailant. They then learn that she stole from a gang leader (Travis Hammer), whose new drug H.Y.P.E., has thrown the whole city into chaos. Now the bar is under siege from a band of raving H.Y.P.E. tweakers, and it's up to the old pros, along with a newly-returned younger solider named Shawn (Tom Williamson), to fend off the lunatics.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
‘The Invisible Man’ (2020) Movie Review
Inspired by the classic novel by H.G. Wells, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man is the story of Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) and her ex-boyfriend, Dr. Adrien Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Dr. Griffin is a brilliant scientist, but a very abusive partner. After Cecilia finally escapes, he kills himself. But after some unseen being starts tormenting her, Cecilia deduces that he is not only alive, but has also figured out a way to turn himself invisible. Everyone thinks she’s hysterical, including her sister (Harriet Dyer) and her good friend James (Aldis Hodge), a police officer who harbored her while she was hiding from Adrien. Now, Cecilia must not only prove that Adrien is alive, but stop him before he hurts anyone else.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'Brahms: The Boy II' Movie Review
Brahms: The Boy II is a fairly loose sequel to The Boy from 2016. After a traumatic experience, young Jude (Christopher Convery) is rendered mute. His parents (Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman) decide to move to what was the guest house on a grand estate; the same estate formerly occupied by the Heelshire family in the first film. Jude finds the doll, Brahms, in the woods behind the house, and he quickly becomes attached to the doll. But strange, sinister things begin happening around the house, and nobody can figure out who's doing them.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'The Lodge' Movie Review
From Austrian directing duo Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, The Lodge is the story of brother and sister Aidan (Jaeden Martell, aka Jaeden Lieberher) and Mia (Lia McHugh). Their parents are separated, and when their father, Richard (Richard Armitage), informs their mother, Laura (Alicia Silverstone), that he intends to marry his girlfriend, Grace (Riley Keough), she commits suicide. The kids now resent both Grace and their father, as they blame them both for what happened to their mom. When their dad tells Aidan and Mia that Grace will be joining them at their lodge in the mountains for Christmas, the two siblings are furious, so when Richard has to go back to the house for a couple days, tensions run high and are only made worse by their isolation.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'Fantasy Island' (2020) Movie Review
Blumhouse’s new take on the beloved TV show from the 70’s and 80’s takes it into much darker territory. In this film, five strangers (Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Ryan Hansen, Jimmy O. Yang, Austin Stowell) are given the chance to visit a magical, remote island in which, supposedly, they are able to live out their greatest fantasy. After being greeted by their host, Mr. Roarke (Michael Peña), he shows them around the resort and informs them that they will be granted their wishes the next day. However, their fantasies aren't exactly what they had hoped for, and the island itself seems to be harboring a dark secret.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'The Turning' Review
The Turning is the latest film adaptation of the book The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Here, the setting has been updated to the 1990’s. Kate Mandell (MacKenzie Davis) is hired to be the private tutor for a little girl named Flora (Brooklynn Prince), an orphan who lives in an old mansion with her brother, Miles (Finn Wolfhard), and their housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (Barbara Marten). Flora is still haunted by her parents’ untimely deaths, and Miles is a borderline sociopath. But it also appears that something else is going on in the house; possibly something supernatural.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'Underwater' Movie Review
After an earthquake destroys their base of operations deep in the Mariana Trench, an aquatic research team (Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr., Mamoudou Athie) is left trapped, you guessed it, underwater. Now they must cross the ocean floor on foot to make it to another station in order to survive. Unfortunately, they aren’t alone down there, and they have no way of contacting the surface world.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'Gretel & Hansel' Movie Review
In this new take on the classic story of Hansel and Gretel, teenage girl Gretel (Sophia Lillis) is forced out of her house by her deranged mother after she refuses to be the servant (and "more") to a rich man. She must now fend for both herself and her younger brother, Hansel (Samuel Leakey). After wandering through the wilderness, starving, they come upon the house of a strange, isolated old woman (Alice Krige) who takes them in. Of course, you all know where the story goes from here.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror
'The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson' Movie Review
Inspired by the infamous true crime, The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson depicts the last several days in the life of Nicole Brown (Mena Suvari), ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (Gene Freeman). We get to see her interactions with friends Kris Jenner (Agnes Bruckner), Faye Resnick (Taryn Manning), and, of course, Ron Goldman (Drew Roy). Nicole also befriends a man named Glen (Nick Stahl), but he may not be exactly the man she thinks he is.
By Will Lasley4 years ago in Horror