What if Chucky from Child’s Play was a Ninja? That sounds like a pretty badass premise, right? And if the idea of a toy performing murderous martial arts hijinks appeals to you then there is a good chance you will love Thorbjørn Christoffersen and Anders Matthesen’s film the Checkered Ninja, as that is pretty much the…
Tag: horror
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) – Review
Back in the late 90s, Warner Brothers Animation did something no Scooby-Doo series had ever done before, and I don’t mean the purported marketing campaign that stated “This time, the monsters are real!” because Scooby and the gang had tackled real ghosts and monsters dating as far back as the 1970s. It began when the…
Midsommar (2019) – Review
Relationships can be a complicated thing for lots of people, either due to emotional baggage or just unfortunate circumstances that can lead to a fallout between the two parties, but relationships in movies tend to focus on the black and white nature of unhealthy ones. Midsommar is both tense and disturbing, leaving me completely shaken as the…
The Manitou (1978) – Review
Demonic possession has been a staple of horror films for decades, with such notable entries ranging from William Friedkin’s The Exorcist in the 70s, to the latest James Wan’s Conjuring film, but the movie we will be looking at today takes a step in a very different direction with its possession story, a rather interesting…
M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” or “How to Write a Contrived Twist”
With Marvel’s Cinematic Universe literally pulling in billions of dollars, it’s no surprise that others would try and cash in on the whole “Shared Universe” idea, but where some, such as The Conjuring Universe, succeeded — now sitting at eight films — others like Universal’s Dark Universe failed miserably with only one film getting made before…