Movie Reviews I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 3 Nov 201622 Nov 2017 Canada/United States. Directed by Oz Perkins, 2016. Starring Ruth Wilson, Bob Balaban, Lucy Boynton, Paula Prentiss. 87 minutes. If you're here, reading this, I reckon you've probably heard of Shirley…
Movie Reviews Crimson Peak 20 Oct 201512 Nov 2017 United States/Canada, 2015. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Mia Wasilkowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver, Burn Gorman, Leslie Hope. 119 minutes. 8/10 Like any storyteller, visionary filmmaker…
Movie Reviews We Are Still Here 8 Jun 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Ted Geoghegan, 2015. Starring Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Marie, Monte Markham. 84 minutes. I've always had a complex relationship with Lucio Fulci's films. In theory,…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Poltergeist 23 May 201512 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Tobe Hooper, 1982. Starring Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubenstein. 114 minutes. Premise: "They're here." Steve and Diane Freelings are a…
Movie Reviews I Am a Ghost 17 Nov 201417 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by H.P. Mendoza, 2012. Starring Anna Ishida, Jeannie Barroga, Rick Burkhardt. 76 minutes. What is it like to be a ghost, and to haunt a place? Not exactly a novel…
Movie Reviews Marianne 10 Nov 201417 Oct 2016 Sweden. Directed by Filip Tegstedt, 2011. Starring Thomas Hedengran, Tintin Anderzon, Peter Stormare. 104 minutes. Let me tell you about something that has happened to me about a dozen and a half times…
Movie Reviews Entity 13 Jun 201411 Nov 2017 United Kingdom. Directed by Steve Stone, 2012. Starring Dervla Kirwan, Charlotte Riley, Branko Tomovic. 87 minutes. 4/10 In 1983, an unknown agency keeps a man known only as "Mischka" in isolation in a…
Movie Reviews The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh 18 Feb 201413 Sep 2019 Antiques dealer Leon Leigh has become estranged from his eccentric and devout mother Rosalind; yet her will specifies him as sole inheritor of her estate. After her death, he comes…
