The Conjuring Universe, created by James Wan, has put forth some decent entries into the horror genre, but it’s also released its fair share of cinematic duds along the way. With Annabelle Comes Home, we get an entry that falls in the middle of the pack. Director Gary Dauberman was the original screenwriter for 2014’s…
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Swamp Thing (2019) – Review
In 1982, DC comics revived their Swamp Thing character to capitalize on Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing movie, but after a couple years, the book found itself nearing cancelation, with the title’s sales plummeting, so with nothing to lose, DC gave a relatively unknown English writer named Alan Moore free rein to revamp the title as…
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 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…