Are you afraid of the dark? It’s plying on this age-old fear that has kept the horror industry in business, whether it be malevolent spirits or machete-wielding serial killers it’s the fear of what is hidden in the shadows that both terrifies us but also intrigues us.
Tag: ghost story
Blackbeard’s Ghost (1968) – Review
When one thinks of pirates today the Disney Pirates of the Caribbean movies readily leap to mind, and that swashbuckling viewpoint on piracy is certainly nothing new; from Errol Flynn’s Captain Blood to Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow Hollywood has glamorized the pirate life, and today we will look back at a film that took light-hearted…
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…
The Forest (2016) – Review
If a ghost goes boo in the forest does anybody care? Hollywood has made several remakes of various Japanese horror films over the years, some successful others not-so-much, but surprisingly enough though this movie does take place in Japan it is not an American remake of the Japanese movie, The Forest is bad all on…
Crimson Peak (2015) – Review
If a Mario Bava movie married a Dario Argento film and then shacked up in Hammer Studios the result would have most likely looked a lot like Crimson Peak.