Horror Movies

‘Brightburn’ turns ‘Superman’ into a gory nightmare

“The New Mutants” has been drawing buzz for a few years for being a superhero/horror mash-up, but as it’s becoming increasingly unlikely that movie will

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‘Midsommar’ is another beautiful, creepy masterpiece from Aster

By accident, I’m the target audience for the theatrical re-release of “Midsommar.” It was one of the summer movies I was most looking forward to,

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‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (2014) stretches out one funny joke

“What We Do in the Shadows” (2014) opens with a close-up of an alarm clock going off, followed by a hand reaching out of a

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‘Us’ reviews

Summer’s review, May 12, 2019 John’s review, June 20, 2019

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A second opinion: ‘Us’ is a boring piece of beautiful arthouse horror (Movie review)

Writer-director Jordan Peele’s “Us” reminds me of Alex Garland’s “Annihilation” (2018). Both are followups to a breakthrough piece of chilling sci-fi/horror that I and everybody

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‘The Perfection’ isn’t what you think it is, but it’s still a clever little horror gem (Movie review)

“The Perfection” (Netflix) has one of those trailers that seems to give away the whole movie, so after making the mistake of watching the trailer,

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‘Happy Death Day 2U’ wrings more fun out of ‘repeated day’ premise with clever genre-hop (Movie review)

It’s accurate to call “Happy Death Day 2U” a dumb movie, and accurate to call it a smart movie. It seems as if Blumhouse studio

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‘Us’ – Jordan Peele’s followup to ‘Get Out’ – is chilling, weird and fresh (Movie review)

Writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest horror offering, “Us” – which hits digital June 4 and disc June 18 — opens on a seemingly endless wall of

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Aronofsky’s ‘Mother!’ (2017) is bizarre, off-putting

I had put off watching writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” (2017) for a long time. Most of the feedback I had heard was that it’s random and

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Summer movies 2019: After watching the trailers, I’m excited for some of these films, not so much for others (Commentary)

I watched the trailers of some notable summer movies so you don’t have to (but they are embedded here if you want to). Here are my

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