Movie Review: Life

I watched the Sci-Fi movie “Life” this week and, yes, I know it is a 2017 movie but in my defense, I’m not the biggest “sci-fi alien” movie fan so I don’t always rush to the theatres when these things come out. A crew of scientists are aboard the International Space Station, just outside the …

Movie Review: Pennywise: The Story of IT

So, I watched Pennywise: The Story of It on Prime this week and found it very interesting and informative with a good behind the scenes look at the origin of the story. This in-depth look at the 1990 mini-series based on Stephen King's iconic novel features interviews with many of the cult classic's key players, …

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: 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 …

Mike Flanagan Breathing Life Into Works Of Poe

Very few horror fans become horror fans without, at some point, experiencing the masterful works of one of the greatest writers in American Literature, Edgar Allan Poe. Now, another master of Horror, writer/director Mike Flanigan (Haunting of Hillhouse, Midnight Mass), is taking on a project to revive the nostalgia of the weird macabre that is …