The Witch (2015)
Set in New England in the early 1630s, six decades before the infamous Salem Witch trials, we find a family of devout Puritans vacating the tight-knit community they could not see eye to eye...
Category: Horror
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Seth Grahame-Smith’s tongue-in-cheek reimagining of Jane Austen’s 19th Century classic romance novel finally hits theater screens, perhaps a bit too late to catch either the zombie craze or the fervor for Jane Austen adaptations...
Krampus (2015)
Michael Dougherty, director of the cult horror flick of 2007, Trick ‘r Treat, returns to the genre to bring scares to yet another holiday in Krampus, which threatens to upend the generally benign season of gift-giving...
Crimson Peak (2015)
Starting off in Buffalo, NY, at the turn of the 20th century, Mia Wasikowska (Madame Bovary, The Double) stars as an aspiring writer named Edith Cushing (nod to Hammer Horror thespian Peter Cushing, no doubt)...
Jurassic World (2015)
Amid the lucrative theatrical run for Jurassic Park III, Universal execs pushed for a fourth entry. Joe Johnston, emotionally and creatively drained after his tumultuous experience directing the third, said that he’d cheerlead from...
Poltergeist (2015)
They’re ba-a-a-ack… 1982’s Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written by (and likely co-directed by) producer Steven Spielberg, remains one of my favorite horror films of all time, drafting up the blueprint for most haunting-in-the-house productions...
Unfriended (2014)
A fairly interesting premise isn’t able to capitalize in this rather non-scary, non-thrilling entry in the low-budget horror genre that aims to bring things to the forefront of modern technology, and yet, at its...
It Follows (2014)
Writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s (The Myth of the American Sleepover) sophomore feature effort is an homage of sorts to horror films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially Halloween, The Shining and its ilk. No,...
Pet Sematary (1989)
Stephen King adapts his own best-selling novel about a family of four who move from Chicago to a country house in Maine, right next to a bustling street with speeding fuel trucks in the...
Flatliners (1990)
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...