In horror films, single moms just can’t catch a break, either their child is being possessed by demonic forces or being menaced by killer toys. It’s not fair, but there you have it. Back in 1988, Dan Mancini gave us one of the best films in this category, and it dealt with a kid’s toy…
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The Curse of La Llorona (2019) – Review
With The Curse of La Llorona we get the eighth installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise — that’s eight films in just six years — and with that James Wan has almost created a horror subgenre all his own. Like many of the films in this series, the supernatural events are loosely, and I mean very loosely,…
The Nun (2018) – Review
Creating a cinematic universe is not easy — just ask the people over at Warner Bros with their DC Extended Universe — but producer James Wan seems to have struck gold with the ever-growing collection of horror movies that have spun off of the success of his 2013 horror film The Conjuring. Though to be…
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…