Horror-themed Christmas movies are certainly nothing new, but writer/director Jalmari Helander gives us a Christmas movie that is a horror-fantasy-dark comedy-boy’s adventure tale, and that, my friends, is a rare export indeed.
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Annabelle (2014) – Review
Horror films have been making a huge resurgence over the last few years with films like Insidious and The Conjuring making giant amounts of cash at the box office, so it should surprise no one that the studio decided the opening sequence of The Conjuring would make for a perfect spin-off/prequel movie.
Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
When last we saw David Innes, he was stranded with his Iron Mole in the Sahara desert. Lucky for him a friendly group of Arabic travelers befriended him and helped rig up a gantry to send him and his Mahar “companion” back to the Earth’s core. If you were to make a list of defining…
Taken 3 (2014) – Review
The Taken series seems to exist solely to justify an agoraphobic’s fear of going outside; in the first film a young woman goes to Paris and is immediately targeted by sex traffickers, then in the second movie the young woman’s family is targeted by the relatives of the now dead sex traffickers, while on vacation…
Vice (2015) – Review
A futuristic resort populated by robots where the guest can act out any fantasy may sound familiar to anyone who’s seen or heard of Michael Crichton’s Westworld but director Brian Miller’s sci-fi thriller Vice does so little with the premise that it’s almost not worth calling this movie a rip-off.