Setting your gothic horror movie in an “old dark house” is almost a prerequisite – Richard Matheson’s The Legend of Hell House and Peter Medak’s The Changeling are prime examples of this done well – but if all you have is dark halls and spooky noises to offer, there is a good chance your film…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Delirium (2018) – Review
What is reality and what is a delusion? This quandary is the heart of many psychological/horror movies, and Blumhouse Production’s Delirium (formerly known as Home) does its best to tap into that primal fear of, “If you can’t trust what you see, who do you trust?” But then, the film drops the ball with a horrendously…
The Changeling (1980) – Review
When it comes to horror movies, nothing beats a good ghost story. Sure, axe-wielding psychos and limb-rendering monsters can be fun, but I’d take a creaking haunted house over those any day of the week. For me, the quintessential examples of this specific horror genre are Robert Wise’s 1963 film The Haunting — a film…
Radius (2017) – Review
Take a high-concept idea, throw in a heaping helping of dread, and then mix it all up with some nice existential quandaries; the result of such a concoction would be the film Radius, a science fiction/thriller by Canadian directors Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard — a film that keeps the viewer guessing along with the film’s…
Flood (1976) – Review
Movies such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure marked Irwin as “The Master of Disaster” with these big-budgeted disaster theatrical releases, but he also brought some of his movie mayhem to the small screen, case in point, his 1976 made-for-television movie Flood. Of course, the problem with taking the disaster genre to the…