What’s an Australian horror film about backpackers getting savagely murdered by insane hunters to do to free themselves of the long shadow of Greg McLean’s 2005 film Wolf Creek ? Up the gore? Possibly, although the “head on a stick” scene would…
Movie Review: Wish Upon
Question: Are you supposed to laugh at a horror movie? Granted, if there’s a funny scene in a horror movie or if the movie is a horror-comedy, it might be fine to laugh. But if the movie is straightforward, stacked…
Movie Review: Kill Switch
Video game movies have left such a poor taste in everyone’s mouth. No matter how popular the property being adapted, movies based off of video games have almost always been made with bad filmmaking, grim atmosphere, stupid writing, and boring…
Movie Review: Camera Obscura
Before you ask, yes, Aaron B. Koontz’s Camera Obscura has distinct similarities to the forty-sixth episode of The Twilight Zone, “A Most Unusual Camera.” Both follow characters who stumble upon mysterious cameras whose photos predict the future. In the Twilight…
Movie Review: Captain Underpants – The First Epic Movie
Regardless of what its name brings up, there is an art to silliness. Everything from Abbott and Costello arguing about who’s playing what position in baseball to Cleese and Palin slapping each other with fish to Chappelle using an 80s…
Movie Review: Band Aid
Directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, Band Aid revolves around Anna (Lister Jones) and Ben (Adam Pally), a couple who believes in bottling up their emotions rather than communicating. Anna is a writer who had a book deal fall through, and Ben…
Movie Review: The Commune
Living with several people can be tricky. And when it comes to relationships, this aspect is often neglected as a way to explore richer dynamics, whether it be between two or more people. The living situation is what makes Thomas Vinterberg’s The…