Tag Archives: Halloween Movies

Violation review — An empty effort at art house horror

January 25, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer | 107 min | Shudder and VOD | ▲△△△△ I had a discussion and disagreement with a fellow film reviewer recently. They admitted to not being a fan of high-brow scares, the arthouse-invading "elevated horror" pictures like The Babadook or Hereditary or Saint Maud. Instead, they… Read More

Scream (2022) review — The good, the bad, and the bloody

January 21, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett | Written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick | 114 min |▲▲▲△△ There's something to be admired in a franchise that starts as a tight trilogy over four years, goes on hiatus for a decade, returns for a better-than-it-needed-to-be fourth entry, and then takes another decade to deliver… Read More

Scream series 1-4 review

January 17, 2022 flawintheiris

I saw the original Scream when it first showed in cinemas 25 years ago and I thought it was... fine. At the time I recognized what master horrormeister Wes Craven and his collaborators were doing — a clever and ironic take on all the horror tropes and cliches Craven indulged in and exploited in earlier films… Read More

Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters (1984), and Ghostbusters II (1989) reviews

November 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, based on Ghostbusters written by Harold Ramis, Dan Akyroyd, and an uncredited Rick Moranis | 124 min Another "legacequel" comes down the pike, and on the surface this seems like the most cynical kind of Hollywood factory product. "Oh, so you whiny Ghostbusters fans didn't… Read More

Last Night in Soho review — Visions of hell on Wardour Street

October 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns | 116 min | In Cinemas Edgar Wright feels like a peer, a media nerd who loves him some movies. The movies he makes are more than informed by his passion and knowledge of all the movies he's watched, they're enraptured by them. He… Read More

Lamb review — Ewe may be surprised

October 14, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson | Written by Jóhannsson and Sjón | 106 min Lamb is distributed in North America by A24, the American company that's defined itself in the marketplace with stellar indies and horror films, amongst them Midsommar, Hereditary, The Lighthouse, and Ladybird. The trailer for this picture suggested it leans toward the deep… Read More

Malignant review — Veteran horrormeister Wan returns to comfort zone

September 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by James Wan | Written by Wan, Ingrid Bisu, and Akela Cooper | 111 min | On Demand James Wan, Hollywood writer-director-producer who launched beloved horror franchises Saw, The Conjuring, and Insidious, and one superhero franchise, Aquaman, returns with what's bound to be another popular series. Malignant is fine. I didn't love it. But… Read More

Candyman (2021) review — Sophisticated creepfest explores racial injustice

August 26, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Nia DaCosta | Written by DaCosta, Jordan Peele, and Win Rosenfeld, based on the 1992 film by Bernard Rose and the short story, The Forbidden, by Clive Barker | 90 min | On Demand When I take a look at a new horror that's a "spiritual" sequel to a preexisting picture, the original… Read More

Old review — Shyamalan goes back to The Village

July 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | Written by Shyamalan, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters | 108 min | Crave Plus If you've seen the trailer, you know the premise: A group of people vacationing at an exclusive resort on a tropical island head to a remote beach for… Read More

A Quiet Place Part II — More of the good and the bad from the first movie

June 25, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Krasinksi | 97 min | Amazon Prime, On Demand We're back in cinemas and back to the dystopic future where hyper-aggressive, murderous aliens with terrific ears — who clearly aren't hunting humans for food or sport, just for the sake of killing us — have destroyed society as we know… Read More