Tag Archives: Halloween Movies

Split review — Form returns for suspense thriller filmmaker

February 11, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 117 min | Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crave Shyamalan is one of the few directors who has a brand, and one who's seen that brand dragged through the mud. For awhile now, the name M. Night Shyamalan has been shorthand for shlocky genre pictures, his go-to favourite storytelling crutch—a… Read More

Lavender review — Damaged memory thriller not hugely memorable

November 2, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly | Written by Gass-Donnelly and Colin Frizzell | 92 min | On Demand Jane (Abbie Cornish) is a photographer with a fascination for old, empty houses. Her parents died in mysterious circumstances when she was young, but she can't remember any of the details. Her marriage to Alan (Diego Klattenhoff) is… Read More

The Shallows review — Deeper than it looks

July 7, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra | Written by Anthony Jaswinski | 86 min | On Demand "Do we really need another shark movie?" I wondered as I walked into the cinema to see The Shallows. Probably not—even Jaws writer Peter Benchley at the end of his life advocated for shark conservation. But I'm happy to watch… Read More

The Neon Demon review — Weird Couture

June 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn | Written by Refn, Mary Laws, and Polly Stenham | 117 min | ▲▲▲▲△ This one upset some folks at Cannes, and it's easy to see why. Promoted as a horror, it's no more a horror than Under The Skin was. There are moments of gore late in the running, and… Read More

The Witch review — Don’t Trust The Goat

February 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Robert Eggers | 92 min | On Demand A Puritan family—a couple and five children— is cast out from their New England community. They head into to the woods to start their own farm. Their youngest, a baby, vanishes while being cared for by the teenaged girl, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), much… Read More

Nina Forever review — Getting The Dead Out

February 10, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by The Blaine Brothers | 98 min | On Demand In the annals of cinematic genre mashups, I'd never have imagined a mix of Truly Madly Deeply, Moonlight Mile, and Evil Dead, but here we are. The first feature by filmmakers Ben and Chris Blaine is a fresh take on multiple genres, and… Read More

Reviews From The Vault: Vol. 3 — Halloween Edition

October 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM. Every Sunday morning I hosted The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of the… Read More

Crimson Peak review — More Gothic, Less Horror

October 20, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, Written by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins | 119 min | On Demand This week I noted that Bridge of Spies had some misleading advertising with a somewhat misleading title: It's more a historical drama than a spy movie. For Crimson Peak's promotional assault, the actors and director have been… Read More

It Follows review — A creepfest of the highest order

March 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Robert Mitchell | 101 min | Amazon Prime The last time I was so pleasantly perplexed by a genre picture it was Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, which came out last May. This is another puzzler with powerful undercurrents of sex and death, both an indie teen movie and a horror, often… Read More

Horns review — Here’s a weird little movie

October 28, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Alexandre Aja, Written by Keith Bunin from a novel by Joe Hill | 121 min | Amazon Prime Many movies fail from lack of ambition. Not Horns. Where it doesn't work, it's because it wants to be too many things rather than just settling for being something ordinary or mediocre. That's actually something… Read More