Pet Sematary (2019)
Pet Sematary is the second film adaptation of the Stephen King novel first published in 1983. It’s not radically different from the first attempt in 1989, which had been one of the rare times...
Pet Sematary is the second film adaptation of the Stephen King novel first published in 1983. It’s not radically different from the first attempt in 1989, which had been one of the rare times...
2010s / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 21, 2019 · Last modified March 22, 2019
As a young girl living in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz in 1986, Adelaide walked away from her parents while at the beach boardwalk amusement park, into a seemingly empty fun house,...
2010s / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 3, 2019 · Last modified March 4, 2019
Although the film is called Greta (originally titled, The Widow), Chloe Grace Moretz’s character, a young waitress named Frances McCullen, is the one we follow most, newly relocated to New York City from Boston...
The Dream Child picks up with Alice, who we were introduced in the fourth installment, The Dream Master, just graduating high school and looking forward to a future after her harrowing experience that ultimately resulted in...
The film starts off in a sillier mode, where Freddy Krueger’s bones begin to reconstitute themselves after a dog desecrates his burial ground by relieving himself over it (the dog is named “Jason”, in...
Esteemed but sometimes hit-and-miss director David Gordon Green (Joe, Prince Avalanche) takes a turn toward the horror genre with Halloween, a sequel to the 1978 classic slasher film from John Carpenter. Low-budget horror outfit Blumhouse Productions...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 16, 2018 · Last modified October 15, 2018
Dream Warriors is easily the best of the sequels in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and some lovers of the franchise consider it even better than the original in many ways. It certainly is a...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published October 8, 2018 · Last modified October 10, 2018
Set in San Francisco, we follow the exploits of scrappy and unscrupulous investigative reporter of some notoriety, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy, The Revenant), played with manic aggressiveness from Tom Hardy. Michelle Williams plays Eddie’s...
Long before people were interacting in a virtual reality slumber in films like The Cell and The Matrix, there was this modestly overlooked sci-fi teaser which delved into the possibilities of one person interacting with another in...
Although the budget is higher and the acting a tad better, Freddy’s Revenge lacks the imagination and better horror direction of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Obviously, much of the reason stems from the lack...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.