Tag Archives: Halloween Movies

The Monkey review — Simian splatterfest with laughs

February 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Osgood Oz Perkins | Written by Perkins, from a Stephen King short story | 98 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Amazon Prime While a lot of people loved Perkins' supernatural serial killer picture from last summer, Longlegs, I found it entertaining while wasn't so quick to proclaim Perkins as a new genre master. This… Read More

The Gorge review — Two hours of your life falls into split in the earth

February 16, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Derrickson | Written by Zach Dean | 127 min | ▲1/2 | Apple TV+ Back when I used to work in film production in Toronto in the 1990s — and this was before X-Men and Good Will Hunting made the city a legitimate hub for quality features — a producer I used… Read More

Companion review — Remedial Ex Machina

February 5, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Drew Hancock | 97 min | ▲▲▲ | VOD That headline might be a little snarky. This is a fun little diversion, a sci-fi picture dipping its Philip K Dick into a horror guacamole. This though it doesn't have much in the way of deep thoughts about the ideas it brings… Read More

Nightbitch review — Amy Adams fantastic as werewolf mom

January 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Marielle Heller | Written by Heller from the book by Rachel Yoder | 99 min | ▲▲▲▲| Crave A version of this review appeared on FITI during the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024 This week the nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards dropped. For the most part I think it's a… Read More

Presence review — Ghost story eerie, ephemeral

January 22, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by David Koepp | 85 min | ▲▲▲ | Amazon Prime A version of this review appeared on FITI during the Atlantic International Film Festival in September 2024 It's an odd coincidence that two movies coming out this season tell their stories through the first person perspective of a… Read More

Wolf Man review — Werewolf movie missing fangs

January 19, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Leigh Whannell | Written by Whannell and Corbett Tuck | 103 min | ▲▲1/2 | Amazon Prime My expectations for a fresh approach to the lycanthropy myth were stoked by this new film from Australian genre auteur Whannell, especially after he nailed the update to The Invisible Man and its intimate partner violence… Read More

Nosferatu review — Dracula resurrection faithful to a fault

January 4, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Eggers | Written by Eggers, adapting Henrik Galeen's film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) and Bram Stoker's Dracula | 132 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime The first thing to know about Nosferatu is it's a visual and aural feast in the cinema. This reviewer had the pleasure of seeing it… Read More

Heretic review — Hugh Grant is terrific, but the movie goes south

November 7, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods | 100 min | ▲▲△△△ | VOD Time and again I'm reminded that I'm not a horror purist. What that means is the cliches of horror movies don't wash for me — where a gorehound or a hardcore horror fan will give a reasonable genre entry a… Read More

Your Monster review — Charming but confused genre mash-up

October 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Caroline Lindy | 103 min | ▲▲▲△△ | VOD New Yorker and musical theatre actor Laura (Melissa Barrera) has just had cancer surgery. The timing's bad: she and her boyfriend, Jacob (Edmund Donovan) have been working on an original musical theatre project. Even worse, Jacob dumps Laura while she's in her… Read More

Rumours review — Amusing, goofy, and peculiar political satire

October 17, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, and Guy Maddin | Written by Evan Johnson | 103 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave There's something delightful about the fact this movie even exists — a satire about the deeply self-centred nature of human beings, even and especially their elected leaders, and how good they are at ignoring… Read More