Directed by Mike Flanagan While itself a straight down the middle, somewhat delirious horror/fantasy movie, Doctor Sleep is more fascinating for how it interacts with its prequel, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Stephen King is widely known to loath that 1980 film for how it deviates from his novel. The character Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson) was … Continue reading Doctor Sleep (2019)
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In the Tall Grass (2019)
Directed by Vincenzo Natali In the Tall Grass is a strange, meandering little horror film based on a Stephen King novel. A brother and his pregnant sister stop next to a corn field in the middle of nowhere, they hear a boy's voice in the field calling for help, they go to investigate and quickly … Continue reading In the Tall Grass (2019)
It Chapter Two (2019)
Directed by Andy Muschietti It Chapter Two is a strange, long mess of a horror movie that is nevertheless at times effective and affecting. It tells the back end of the story begun in It (2017), with the Losers Club more than a little grown up. Where they were just children in the first film, with … Continue reading It Chapter Two (2019)
Pet Sematary (2019)
Directed by Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer Pet Sematary is a grim, self-serious and nearly identical remake of the odd 1989 film of the same name. I'm surprised to find such rigid devotion to the source material considering that older film was kind of atrocious. In fact this film, while not exactly bad, is similarly atrocious. … Continue reading Pet Sematary (2019)
Super Dark Times (2017)
Directed by Kevin Phillips There's something unsettling about your teenage years, at least while you're in them. There have been many a film made about such a time, seen through a nostalgic lens, but Super Dark Times is not one of those films. It's highly in the moment, moving with every dramatic whim perceived by its … Continue reading Super Dark Times (2017)
Misery (1990)
Directed by Rob Reiner Some of what makes Misery so deliriously wonderful is the detail. This is a pretty straightforward, ruthlessly parodied tale of horror that has surely stood some kind of test of time because of those little details like the typewriter with the missing "n," and the wholesome partnership between the sheriff and his … Continue reading Misery (1990)
Clown (2014)
Directed by Jon Watts Clown, about a man turning into a child-eating clown, is disturbing and thus incredibly effective. It's one of those troubling horror movies that, though it follows certain conventions, wades into frightening, disgusting territory and provokes incredibly upsetting feelings within the viewer. On one hand such feelings may make it easy to write … Continue reading Clown (2014)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Directed by Mary Lambert "Sometimes dead is bedduh." Pet Sematary is both horrifying and awful. As a story it is so melodramatic, relentless and populates its thin premise with absurd characters who struggle to convey the depths of their purported emotions. The film, as a result, uses cheap horror to make up for its disturbingly … Continue reading Pet Sematary (1989)
Cujo (1983)
Directed by Lewis Teague It's typically a bad recipe when your movie relies on a dog's performance, but you know what, Cujo isn't bad! There have been plenty of unfortunate Stephen King adaptations, but this one about a rabid dog isn't one of them. In fact Cujo might work best not just because the dog performance was … Continue reading Cujo (1983)
The Shining (1980)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick The Shining is so famous, so analyzed, so iconographic that it's hard to have an original opinion about it. I assume I like it, because I do, but is that belief really my own or did I know I had to like it going in? This is a chilling horror film, … Continue reading The Shining (1980)
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