Setting your gothic horror movie in an “old dark house” is almost a prerequisite – Richard Matheson’s The Legend of Hell House and Peter Medak’s The Changeling are prime examples of this done well – but if all you have is dark halls and spooky noises to offer, there is a good chance your film…
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Delirium (2018) – Review
What is reality and what is a delusion? This quandary is the heart of many psychological/horror movies, and Blumhouse Production’s Delirium (formerly known as Home) does its best to tap into that primal fear of, “If you can’t trust what you see, who do you trust?” But then, the film drops the ball with a horrendously…
Radius (2017) – Review
Take a high-concept idea, throw in a heaping helping of dread, and then mix it all up with some nice existential quandaries; the result of such a concoction would be the film Radius, a science fiction/thriller by Canadian directors Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard — a film that keeps the viewer guessing along with the film’s…
Housebound (2014) – Review
Whenever I’m watching a haunted house movie, at some point I’ll invariably ask “What the hell are you people still doing in that bloody house?” Call me crazy, but when walls begin to bleed – or spectral voices are crying “GET OUT!” – I’d be changing my zip code as fast as humanly possible. I…
The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015-2017) Review
When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley released her novel “Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus” back in the year 1818 I doubt even her fertile imagination could have guessed the journey her creation would take, and over the following two hundred years, it did take some marvelous turns.