The Conjuring Universe, created by James Wan, has put forth some decent entries into the horror genre, but it’s also released its fair share of cinematic duds along the way. With Annabelle Comes Home, we get an entry that falls in the middle of the pack. Director Gary Dauberman was the original screenwriter for 2014’s…
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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009) – Review
The globetrotting Scooby gang are no strangers to the Far East; they’ve faced the Dragon Beast in the episode “The Demon of the Dugout,” from the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo run, and poor Shaggy became a 30-Foot Shaggy during an episode of What’s New, Scooby-Doo? titled, “Big Appetite in Little Tokyo.” But their best Japanese adventure was…
Leprechaun Returns (2018) – Review
What do you do if the villain of your franchise has hit a critical mass level of desperation that lands him in space? In the Friday the 13th movie series, after Jason got his “In Space” entry, the next film teamed him up with a fellow horror icon Freddy Krueger, but when that failed to…
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King (2008) – Review
Back in the late 90s, we were treated to several Scooby-Doo movies where the fantastical creatures were actually real — starting with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and ending with Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase — but after those films, the formula returned to the typical “Dudes in Masks” type of mysteries, that is until the…
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) – Review
A horror movie set in an elite boarding school is certainly nothing new — Dario Argento’s Suspiria and its 2018 remake being primary examples of this — but taking that horror setting and then blending it with a comedy element is a nice little twist, and casting the likes of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost…