Movie Reviews Contracted: Phase 2 18 Feb 201612 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Josh Forbes, 2015. Starring Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown, Anna Lore, Laurel Vail, Peter Cilella. 78 minutes. 5/10 Towards the end of Eric England's 2013 film Contracted,…
Movie Reviews Unfriended 23 Apr 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Leo Gabriadze, 2014. Starring Shelley Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead. 83 minutes. If there's a horror story hoarier than the tale of the wronged teenager…
Movie Reviews Starry Eyes 9 Apr 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer, 2014. Starring Alexandra Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan. 95 minutes. Hollywood is the ultimate horror-movie town. It's got a sinister history, is populated with low-lifes, creeps…
Movie Reviews It Follows 6 Apr 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Robert David Mitchell, 2014. Starring Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe, Jake Weary. 100 minutes. It's hard to believe, at first glance, that there might be anything particularly special about It…
Movie Reviews Beneath 6 Feb 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Ben Ketai, 2013. Starring Kelly Noonan, Jeff Fahey, Joey Kern. 89 minutes. The who-can-you-trust paranoiac terror of John Carpenter's take on The Thing. The claustrophobic, dimly lit underground horror…
Movie Reviews Honeymoon 2 Feb 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Leigh Janiak, 2014. Starring Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway. 87 minutes. Honeymoon stars Rose Leslie (of Game of Thrones) and Harry Treadaway (Control) as Bea and Paul, a young newlywed…
Movie Reviews At the Devil’s Door 29 Dec 201417 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Nicholas McCarthy, 2014. Starring Catalina Sandino Moreno, Naya Rivera, Ashley Rickards. 91 minutes. Writer/director Nicholas McCarthy builds At the Devil's Door with a venerable old trope. He starts with…
Movie Reviews Come Back to Me 22 Dec 201417 Oct 2016 It's a trope so heavily ingrained in the grammar of the modern suspense thriller that we take it for granted these days. It's late at night, but the protagonist is…
Movie Reviews The Babadook 5 Dec 201417 Oct 2016 Australia. Directed by Jennifer Kent, 2014. Starring Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney. 93 minutes. It's a thick "pop-up book" of the type we all read when we were kids, bound…
Movie Reviews Animosity 1 Dec 201417 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Brendan Steere, 2013. Starring Tracy Willet, Marcin Paluch, Tom Martin. 103 minutes. It's a story we all know too well: a young couple takes up residence in an isolated…
