- John Hansen
- July 15, 2023
Spookily successful: All 10 ‘Conjuring’ Universe films, ranked
“The Conjuring” wouldn’t have been an obvious pick for launching the most lucrative horror franchise of all time when it premiered on July 15, 2013.
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- John Hansen
- July 14, 2023
‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ (2015) turns focus to Lin Shaye’s Elise
The “Insidious” series can be seen as a classier, slicker version of the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series. A person falls asleep and gains access
- John Hansen
- July 11, 2023
‘The Amityville Curse’ (1990) seeks its haunts from another house
As old trash movies become easily accessible in the streaming era, it’s become fashionable to look for hidden gems, to nominate underrated horror films for
- John Hansen
- July 7, 2023
‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ (2013) pads out possession story
After director James Wan helped usher an old-school/new-school horror mix into the mainstream with 2011’s “Insidious” – set in modern times but with sound and
- John Hansen
- July 4, 2023
A panic on our hands on the Fourth of July: The 10 best shark horror movies
“You yell ‘barracuda,’ everybody says ‘Huh? What?’ You yell ‘shark,’ we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.” That line from
- John Hansen
- June 30, 2023
Hall adds more psych-horror to resume with ‘Resurrection’ (2022)
At this point, you could do a film festival of Rebecca Hall psychological thrillers. After the likes of “The Gift” and “The Night House,” we
- John Hansen
- June 27, 2023
In ‘Amityville 4’ (1989), ‘The Evil Escapes’ into a daytime soap
The line between TV and film has blurred as we approach the point where the two media will be indistinguishable in production values. In 1989,
- John Hansen
- June 23, 2023
‘Haunting in Connecticut’ (2009) makes tidy use of cancer parallel
“The Haunting in Connecticut” (2009) is – like the more famous “The Amityville Horror” (1979) — another of those proto-“Conjuring” films that come from an
- John Hansen
- June 20, 2023
‘Amityville 3-D’ (1983) could’ve used more dimension in its storytelling
“Amityville 3-D” (1983) hit theaters at the intersection of a couple of trends: one, sequels as ways to cash in on a horror franchise, and
- John Hansen
- June 18, 2023
‘Endless Night’ gets made into sneaky great 1972 film
As a general historical truth, Agatha Christie didn’t see a lot of great film adaptations of her work in her lifetime. What she really missed