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Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.
'A.M.I.' - Review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: After suffering brain trauma in a car accident that killed her mother, high school student Cassie obsesses over her American football playing boyfriend, Liam. Lonely and missing her mother, she finds a phone with an AI that replicates her mother’s voice. Cassie’s tenuous grasp on reality is tested further as the AI pushes her to homicidal heights.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Horror
'Silent Hill'—Atmosphere Is Everything
Hello, and welcome back to Second Chances where I shine a flashlight on the maligned, forgotten, and ignored. If there's one genre of film in which professional critics seem to disconnect the most from the general audience, it would be horror. I've looked up reviews of many horror films and seen many of the same complaints crop up over and over again like unlikeable characters, overreliance on gore, and lack of concrete stories. While those things can be problematic in other genres, they're much more forgivable in horror due to the nature of the genre. Unlikeable characters getting killed off is seen as karma in action. Gore taps into primal fear very effectively (though, to be fair, a little goes a long way like with the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre). Finally, if a story is too solid and explainable, it stops being scary. To illustrate this, I'm going to talk about a horror film that didn't deserve to be critics' tortured gimp, 2006's Silent Hill.
By Adam Wallace7 years ago in Horror
'Get Out'—A Movie Review
Wait, you’re going to a party where this weekend? The Armitage’s? Uh, maybe you shouldn’t go. Get Out is a thriller directed by Jordan Peele that hit theaters in 2017. Chris, a Black man, is invited to meet the parents of his white girlfriend, Rose. While things go smoothly at first, Chris soon finds out the nightmarish plans the family is up to.
By Marielle Sabbag7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Mandy' (2018)
With The Color Out of Space soon to be released, I figure I'd give Cage one last chance, and see if he has what it takes to pull off Cosmic Horror of the likes of H. P. Lovecraft. I wrote an article a little while back, skeptical of Cage's ability to do the genre any justice. You can read that article at the following link: Nicholas Cage: What Does He Contribute to Horror?
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
'The Sixth Sense' - A Movie Review
Is it just me or does it feel very cold in this room? Twenty years ago, M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller The Sixth Sense hit theaters. Malcolm, a child psychologist, is trying to help a shy young boy named Cole communicate and embrace his being. Having the ability to see ghosts, at first Cole shies away until embodying this ability to help reform broken spirits.
By Marielle Sabbag7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'House of 1000 Corpses' (2003)
I haven't watched this movie recently, but I watched it so many damn times that I know it intimately. This movie is the first time I really identified Sid Haig as an actor and paragon of horror. I'd likely seen him before, maybe first in Planet Terror, but Captain Spaulding firmly cemented Sid into my memory. I'd see him along the way in things like Creature (2011), and of course every fucking thing that Rob Zombie ever does. We have to give Rob that. He rescues forgotten actors from the dust bin. Sid was the best find, I think.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'IT: Chapter Two'
Welcome movie lovers! It: Chapter Two is by far the scariest horror movie this writer has ever seen. The director for this movie, Andrés Muschietti, did an amazing job by directing the entire cast and crew. The actors portrayed their characters very well. Each character learned how to overcome their fears and why the “Losers' Club” meant so much to them individually and collectively.
By Michael Reynoso7 years ago in Horror
