“If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today you’d better go in disguise!” In the 2015 horror film The Witch, by writer/director Robert Eggers, it is the unknown that is the true horror to found here, and what was more unknown…
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The Boy (2016) – Review
Creepy dolls in the horror genre are nothing new; from The Twilight Zone’s “Living Doll” episode to The Conjuring’s lame spin-off Annabelle we’ve been subjected to countless iteration of the scary doll motif. In the film, The Boy takes the sub-genre to an even deeper level of lameness than we got with the likes of…
The Conjuring 2 (2016) – Review
“If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?” Well apparently if you’re the Catholic Church you don’t call the Ghostbusters, you call Ed and Loraine Warren instead. In 2010 director James Wan terrified audience with his horror film Insidious and then in 2013 he doubled down and broke box office records for…
London Has Fallen (2016) – Review
Everyone knows that Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen was an over-the-top Die Hard rip-off that had more explosions than plot, and only managed to hit 48% on the Rotten Tomatoes, but it did pull in $161,000,000 million in worldwide box office receipts, thus the sequel London Has Fallen was greenlit.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) – Review
With Marvel and DC trying to outdo each other in their cinematic ventures, one can easily forget that two years ago Michael Bay tried his hand at a comic franchise of his own.