The best ghost stories have a central mystery at their heart, with the protagonist trying to figure out who the ghost is and what it wants, but with 2013’s Haunter, director Vincenzo Natali gives us a more unique point of view as this teenage protagonist believes she is stuck in some kind of time loop,…
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Road Games (1981) – Review
The 1980s were literally exploding with slasher films — with the likes of Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger quickly becoming horror icons — so it’s not surprising that other countries would try and cash in on the genre, which did lead to such gems as Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. But down under in Australia, during…
Final Girl (2015) – Review
Taking popular horror tropes and turning them on their heads is nothing new – the “final girl” trope is easily the most recognized of such – but the key to making such a twist work is in how well you execute it, and in having the “final girl” being someone the audience can actually get…
The Boy (2016) – Review
Creepy dolls in the horror genre are nothing new; from The Twilight Zone’s “Living Doll” episode to The Conjuring’s lame spin-off Annabelle we’ve been subjected to countless iteration of the scary doll motif. In the film, The Boy takes the sub-genre to an even deeper level of lameness than we got with the likes of…
Tarzan: Emotional Rescue (2003) – Review
In the previous episode Rules of Engagement we were treated to some really good drama between Tarzan and Jane – with Jane’s rational side warring with her heart – and we also had a pretty damn good “Crime of the Week” with a mad vigilante sniper, but this week’s Emotional Rescue does its best to undo…