Ethan Hawke is no stranger to horror, specifically when directed by Scott Derrickson and written by C. Robert Cargill, as seen in 2012’s Sinister. But it’s safe to say Hawke has outdone himself with The Black Phone, extending his villain…
“Freaky” review: Body-swap horror is a gory good time
Freaky is another Blumhouse production putting a horror spin on a familiar trope. Like with Happy Death Day, a Groundhog Day style murder mystery, Freaky manages to successfully balance humor with its take on the body-switching scenario. Instead of a…
‘Evil Eye’ Movie review: Blumhouse’s newest film has wasted potential
On paper, Rajeev and Elan Dassani’s film, Evil Eye, has a fascinating premise. Featured in Amazon Prime’s Welcome to the Blumhouse series, Evil Eye features an almost entirely South Asian cast and a plot that teams up a mother and…
Black Box review: Osei-Kuffour Jr.’s debut explores the horror behind false memories
Memories are tricky things to decipher. Sometimes we misremember things, while at other times, certain moments can be entirely misrepresented or exaggerated to hyperbolic levels. The science surrounding our memories has been around for decades, yet no one fully understands…
Ma Movie Review: Octavia Spencer gives her all in a horror film that couldn’t care less about her
As if high school wasn’t scary enough, Ma is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse and Universal attempting to inject new terrors into the coming-of-age experience, this time by front-lining Octavia Spencer (an Academy Award-winning actress) at her wackiest octave, a sublime blend of unhinged, unbent, and thoroughly broken.
Happy Death Day 2U Review: Multiverse theories join time loops for a dinner party with slasher thrillers
During Happy Death Day, as Tree (Jessica Rothe) kept dying and starting her day over, I couldn’t get past the total lack of clarity of why this was happening to this particular character. There’s a bit of an emotional journey…
‘Relive’ Movie Review: A Cell Phone Time Machine That Drops The Call | Sundance 2019
Films are wonderful vehicles for wish fulfillment, so it makes sense that time travel gets as much play as it does as a genre device. Great films use a variety of character motivations to justify the decision to tinker with…