The woods at night are truly frightening, it’s a primordial fear that has been carried down through the ages since early man first stared out of his cave and listened to the creatures of the night, and this is something horror filmmakers gleefully prey on when they give us their versions of “What goes bump…
Tag: found footage
The Remaining (2012) – Review
You know what will ruin a wedding party? The Rapture, that’s what. In director Casey La Scala’s “sort of found footage” movie that is exactly what happens, and it’s basically a more palatable version of Left Behind: A Novel of the Last Days on Earth. This is not a good thing.
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) – Review
Okay, first off, can we please just start off this review by discussing how fucking ridiculous this movie’s title is? “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.” Just look at that. Hey, here’s a challenge. Go around to maybe 5 friends and say that title to their face, and wait for them to burst into laughter. Chances…
Project Almanac (2014) – Review
So you find a time machine in the basement, what do you do next? Director Dean Israelite and writers Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman try to answer that question as if posed to a group of idiot teenagers. The result is a movie that is more in line with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and…
Into the Storm (2014) – Review
This does seem to be another year of disaster movie mania. Earlier in the year we got Pompeii which was basically Gladiator meets Titanic on the slopes of Dante’s Peak, and then we had Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, which was about the world’s first disaster story and was kind of dreadful in its own right, but…