by K Hogaboom | Oct 20, 2018 | blog
This review contains minor spoilers. In this Netflix period drama, prodigal son and erstwhile missionary Thomas (Dan Stevens) returns home to find his father aging and addled, and his sister Jennifer kidnapped and secured on a mysterious (Welsh) island. The island is...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 19, 2018 | blog
The first Halloween was a hard act to follow – as it’s an almost perfect horror film – but follow many films did. To date the franchise includes seven sequels (a few of them, non-sequiturs at best) and two remakes. These nine efforts have been...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 11, 2018 | article
Scottish siblings Angela and Jackson (Florence Pugh and Ben Lloyd-Hughes) helm a sophisticated ghost investigation scam operation to keep themselves afloat. Angela is a university student in Psychology half-assing her way through her studies, preferring to get...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 6, 2018 | blog
Four typical teen girls Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles), Wren (Joey King), Chloe (Jaz Sinclair), and Katie (Annalise Basso) find a website detailing the sketchy legend of Slender Man (Javier Botet) and instructions on how to summon him. Sounds like a good idea, right?...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 2, 2018 | article
Note: this review contains spoilers. It’s awfully hard to please me when it comes to demon-possession films. They are usually packed with so many standard scares that have thoroughly lost their charm: bone-cracking body distortions, ceiling-crawling...
