When it comes to horror movies, nothing beats a good ghost story. Sure, axe-wielding psychos and limb-rendering monsters can be fun, but I’d take a creaking haunted house over those any day of the week. For me, the quintessential examples of this specific horror genre are Robert Wise’s 1963 film The Haunting — a film…
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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.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013) – Review
In 2010 Warner Bros Animation teamed up with the Cartoon Network to produce the eleventh, and possibly the best personification of Scooby-Doo and the gang, in a two-season series that basically works as a prequel to the original 1960s Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?