- John Hansen
- September 7, 2023
‘Last Voyage of the Demeter’ expands ‘Dracula’ lore
“The Last Voyage of the Demeter” had been in development hell for a couple decades, and while it’s great for vampire horror fans that it
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- John Hansen
- September 6, 2023
Woodley, Mendelsohn warm up frosty ‘To Catch a Killer’
The detective thriller “To Catch a Killer” is caught between old-fashioned and modern, grungy and slick – elevated so much above its script by Shailene
- John Hansen
- September 5, 2023
‘Air’ an engrossing chronicle of Nike’s side of the legendary MJ deal
“Air” (Amazon Prime) cleverly and crisply chronicles Nike’s 1984 signing of Michael Jordan to the now-legendary basketball shoe contract. It’s not a chronicle of Jordan
- John Hansen
- September 1, 2023
‘Hellraiser: Revelations’ (2011) reveals how low the saga can go
“Hellraiser: Revelations” (2011) is the worst “Hellraiser” movie, but among the most interesting to discuss. Because Dimension has a contract with the “Hellraiser” IP where
- John Hansen
- August 25, 2023
‘Hellraiser: Hellworld’ (2005) so close to being a smart meta sequel
“Hellraiser: Hellworld” (2005) – the saga’s eighth film, third in a row from director Rick Bota and second consecutive film shot in Romania – is
- John Hansen
- August 24, 2023
Crowe’s ‘Pope’s Exorcist’ adds some edge to familiar structure
“The Pope’s Exorcist” sounds like a title you’d see on a Redbox kiosk around the time of a new “Exorcist” movie (indeed, that saga’s sixth
- John Hansen
- August 22, 2023
‘Cobweb’ weaves a sticky blend of monster and mystery
In a time of overhyped too-minimalist horror films (“The Black Phone,” “Boogeyman”) and big-name franchises (the “Insidiouses” and “Conjurings”), “Cobweb” finds a nice middle ground.
- John Hansen
- August 22, 2023
‘Amityville Murders’ (2018) fills in key piece of puzzle
It took until the 23rd film with “Amityville” in the title for the 1974 Defeo family murders to finally be chronicled in full. Writer-director Daniel
- John Hansen
- August 18, 2023
Wuhrer wades into ‘Hellraiser’ weirdness in ‘Deader’ (2005)
The “Hellraiser” saga has a strange ability to tell the same story over and over but not in precisely the same way. For “Hellraiser: Deader”
- John Hansen
- August 15, 2023
‘Amityville: The Awakening’ (2017) wastes its meta premise
“Amityville: The Awakening” (2017) has a hook, at least when I say it out loud. The story is set in the “real world,” where the