28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ( 2026 | United Kingdom | 109 minutes | Nia DaCosta) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple …
Tag: Horror Movies
Black Phone 2 rings true…some of the time
Black Phone 2 (2025 | USA | 114 minutes | Scott Derrickson) The Black Phone, writer/director Scott Derrickson’s thriller about a young …
Is it Worth it to Pay Attention to Him?
Him (2025 | USA | 96 minutes | Justin Tipping) Not to mix sports metaphors, but if nothing else Him, the feature …
M3GAN 2.0 trades scares for silliness, to (mostly) good effect
Kudos to recent horror franchises for changing stuff up. 28 Years Later expanded its siege-horror foundation by steering it into the realm of post-apocalyptic dark fairy tale. M3gan 2.0, by contrast, doesn’t so much radically depart from its predecessor as significantly shift the emphasis of the genres it combines.
28 Years Later ups the scale and the heart–and it’s scary, too
Spoiler alert (not): 28 Years Later, the second sequel to director Danny Boyle’s influential 2002 shocker 28 Days Later, could hardly be better. And unlike 28 Weeks Later, the rather meh second film of the franchise, this new entry serves up something deeply emotional, stunningly ambitious, seriously creepy, decidedly distinctive from its predecessor(s), and exhilaratingly suspenseful.
Does Wolf Man deliver enough bite for modern audiences?
Wolf Man (2024 | USA | 103 minutes | Leigh Whannell) When director Leigh Whannell was tapped by Universal Pictures a few …
Maxxxine Serves up Girl Power Marinated in Gore and Grime
Maxxxine (2024 | USA | 104 minutes | Ti West) Maxxxine may be set in a Reagan-era Los Angeles that’s been buffed …
The Boogeyman: Scaring Up Another Stephen King Adaptation
The Boogeyman (2023 | USA | 98 minutes | Rob Savage) My introduction to Stephen King’s writing happened in junior high, when I …
Halloween Ends on a strange (and strangely hilarious) note
Since seeing Halloween Ends, purportedly the final chapter in director David Gordon Green’s reboot of the iconic slasher franchise, I’ve oscillated between dismissing it as entertainingly lousy, and viewing it as a work of operatically-pitched satiric genius. Truth be told, it kinda feels like both at once, and therein lies much of its cockeyed charm. Whether you succumb to that charm, however, is another story.
Expect a Pearl among Horror Prequels from the Follow-up to X
Pearl, the prequel to writer/director Ti West’s well-received shocker X, takes a character’s origin story—the kind usually dispensed as an afterthought in a couple of sentences of exposition or two minutes of black-and-white flashback footage—and turns it into an audacious, grandly operatic standalone experience.