Movie Review: Blood

I had an opportunity to watch Brad Anderson’s Blood this weekend and have some mixed feelings as to how good or bad it was. Trailers and reviews will lead you to believe this is just another angle at a vampire movie but honestly, this is NOT a vampire movie at all. Jess, a mother who …

Movie Review: Knock at the Cabin

Knock at the Cabin is completely off the typical M Night Shyamalan track of chills and thrills. Four strangers who share a vision about the apocalypse and how to stop it. That involves making a family of two parents and a kid make an incredibly tough decision of sacrifice, or the strangers must make sacrifices …

Movie Review: Cryptid

As a longtime fan of creature features, I dig cryptid stories. While most of those creepypasta tales are so wealthy in content possibilities, many miss their mark when it makes it to film, usually due to economic constraints of low budget film making. Brad Rego and 221 Films’ “Cryptid”, however, nailed the target dead center.   …

Movie Review: The Pale Blue Eye

I have to say the draw, for me, to Scott Cooper’s “Pale Blue Eye” was the inclusion of Edgar Allan Poe’s character, with no other expectation of the movie itself. However, after watching it, now three times, I am pleased to say that I was pleasantly surprised by how good the movie really is. There …

Movie Review: The Wretched

I’ve always been fascinated by witch lore, though I’ve never understood their motivation. I did a good bit of research when I wrote my second Hauntings book, “Witches of Essex” and learned quite a bit. This week, I used some of my down time to watch “The Wretched”, written and directed by Brett and Drew …

Movie Review: The Babadook

The Babadook. This movie was slow moving and being labeled a “horror” film was completely off the mark. It took an hour to ever see a semblance of a “monster” and there were really zero scares. The story had a lot of potential but was honestly little more than a psychological film addressing grief and …

Movie Review: Prey for the Devil

Directly from the vein of the Exorcist and every other film that it inspired, this is just another demonic possession movie that redresses the traditional plots and storylines to appear to be something new and fresh - but it's just not. The story centers on a Roman Catholic Church that combats the global rise of …

Watching the Classics: Vision Quest – Shute was NOT a Villain.

Vision Quest has, over the years, become a cult classic. While it enjoyed success at the box office way back 1984, its greates succwss has been in cult circles of fans who either following wresting, or follow coming of age films. I personally watch this ting on averagte once a month or every six weeks …

Movie Review: Firestarter

It pains me to bring you this news but the new Firestarter movie is an epic fail. This will be brief, just like the movie. Yes, that’s right, an hour and thirty-four minutes and that’s counting credits. This felt like such a shell of a movie. Have you ever watched someone do Karaoke? Kind of …

Movie Review: Absentia (2011)

. Two sisters deal with the disappearance of one ‘s husband. The wife declares him dead through Absentia after seven years and right after she does, he reappears. But something isn’t right with him. Oh, did I mention she was pregnant with another man’s child when he returns? This was a dark movie with some …