By Nick Maylor While I haven’t seen enough films this year to give a definitive list of the 10 best 2018 movies, our senior critic John has compiled that list here. Instead, I will be focusing on some of my favourite movies from the year, specifically the blockbusters. Ones that made big impacts at the box office…
By Clarisse Tenreiro After dedicating all my attention to the big screen that had been projecting all kinds of flickering lights and sounds into my brain, and finally taking that satisfying gulp of air one feels allowed to take once the credits roll, I felt like the past hour and a half couldn’t have been…
By Craig Leask In movies, haunted houses and castles are traditionally isolated locations: perched on stormy hilltops, swampy bayous, or located on vast, overgrown estates, separated from society (or anyone who can offer help to those in peril). A mountainous resort, closed for the winter, requiring a caretaker, lonely empty mansions being investigated or hosting…
By John H. Foote Beloved (1998) is not the sort of film that wins awards, however, it was clearly made TO win awards. It is called Oscar-baiting when high minded, self-important folks think they are making an important, lofty work they hope the Academy will recognize. Instead, the film, or performances within, are pretentious. Oscar-baiting…
By Nick Maylor Happy Halloween to all of our readers. So… could I have been any more obvious in my choice? I doubt it. For this site, I recently reviewed this year’s direct-sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher film which can be read here. I really enjoyed the new movie as it harkened back to…
By John H. Foote Nosferatu (1919/ 1979) The portrayal of dread has not ever been done stronger than it is here, because F. W. Murnau caught it perfectly in his expressionistic horror film Nosferatu (1919). Meant to be an adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula, the director neglected to buy the rights from the writer’s widow,…
By Craig Leask I’m a sucker for movies with big old creepy houses (check out my article on Spooky House Comedies here). So, as you can imagine, in the weeks leading up to Halloween my Blu-ray player is kept busy with everything from the classics (Dracula (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Psycho (1960), and The…
By Alan Hurst We were asked to pick our favorite movie for Halloween and there were many that could have made my top spot. I love the Universal monster classics of the thirties and forties, particularly The Invisible Man (1933), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and The Wolf Man (1941). The Uninvited (1944) is probably the…
By John H. Foote This remake of the classic seventies horror film, Suspiria (1977) from Dario Argento is striking to look at, filled with interesting imagery, but so pretentious and, uniquely self-important and ugly within, the filmmaker forgets he is making a horror film. He forgets to scare us. O,h there is gore, but that…
By John H. Foote Lon Chaney was born for the silent screen. For acting, for creating. Synonymous with horror, his name instantly recognizable as being a horror movie star it is shocking how few of his films are truly horror films. I have been fascinated with Chaney since I was a boy, since seeing his…