Following a childhood haunted by the terrifying events at the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance, played by a very understated Ewan McGregor, has been drifting for decades in a haze of drink and drugs, basically doing anything to forget & numb the ghosts that haunt his past via his special power, his ‘Shining’. Danny finds himself […]
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It’s been 10 years since we last saw Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) and our TV and movie screens have since become even more saturated with zombie content. It’s something which even gets acknowledged by Columbus during his opening narration to Zombieland: Double Tap as he
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Ready or Not opens with a gleefully intense and shocking scene. It serves to give us a taste of the kind of twisted games that usually play out within the confines of huge gothic mansion owned by the eccentric Le Domas family, who made their fortune in the board game business. If you’ve seen the
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It’s fair to say that IT Chapter 2 has been one of my most anticipated movies this year. The trailer, which I’ve probably watched just as many times now as I watched the Endgame trailer, gives me goosebumps every time, and I couldn’t wait to rejoin the losers club for another battle with Pennywise the
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Florida is preparing itself for the arrival of a category five hurricane. As competitive swimmer Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) changes after a session in the pool, she takes a video call from her sister, concerned that she can’t get through to their father (Barry Pepper) by phone. Dad still lives in their old hometown, right
Obviously I’m not familiar with the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books that this movie is based upon – a series of three books containing short horror stories for children and drawing heavily on urban legend and folklore for it’s subject matter, with the first being published in 1981. Apparently, the series is
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Annabelle Comes Home is the third standalone movie for the creepy looking doll since her introduction during the original Conjuring movie. It’s also the seventh feature movie from the ever expanding ‘Conjuring Universe’, a series of movies that have seen wildly varying degrees of quality and success thus far. I tend to start my reviews
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What if Clark Kent grew up to be evil? What if, instead of growing up to be this all powerful protector of Earth and humanity, he decided he wanted to take the world, cruelly toying with and destroying humanity in the process? That’s the premise behind Brightburn, a superhero horror movie from producer James Gunn,
I gave up on The Walking Dead a few seasons ago. Continually disappointing story-lines and characters, along with frustrating pacing issues had made this show hard work to watch, and a far cry from it’s early days of action packed originality. Black Summer recently arrived on Netflix, described as a companion piece to the show
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I’ve said it before, The Conjuring is my all time favourite scary movie. However, since the success of that first movie, there have been a number of spin off movies, in an bid to build what’s now known as the ‘Conjuring Universe’. These movies have all varied in quality, ranging from the not too bad
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I remember watching season 1 of Santa Clarita Diet and wondering after just a few episodes if it would ever make it to another season. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved the humour and the craziness of the show, but I just wasn’t sure how they would ever manage to stretch the idea out
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Here we have the second movie adaptation of the classic novel by my favourite author Stephen King, with the first being released way back in 1989! Being a massive fan of the book, it definitely sparked my interest when I heard news of a new movie version. I haven’t read the book in years, nor
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I came away from ‘Us’ with a number of very different feelings. It kept me seriously on edge for the majority of it, making me feel uncomfortable and at times confused. It’s taken me a while to try and digest it all and to decide whether or not I actually even enjoyed it. The movie
The original Happy Death Day was a real pleasant surprise. A cross between Groundhog Day and Scream, with our heroine being killed by a baby face mask wearing killer every day, only to wake up again at the start of the same day. With a long list of potential suspects, and slowly feeling the effects
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Set in the Stephen King multiverse, the Maine town of Castle Rock is the setting for this psychological horror thriller spanning ten episodes. It utilises various characters and settings from the authors work, and even actors who have appeared in movie versions of his books, resulting in a unique and richly detailed story which has
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It’s easy to draw comparisons between Bird Box and one of this years biggest hits, A Quiet Place. As Malorie (Sandra Bullock), guides two young children towards a boat, all three of them blindfolded and terrified of the consequences should they remove them, the similarities with the post apocalyptic themes of A Quiet Place are
