Christopher Landon

I kinda love how ‘Heart Eyes’ mixes rom-com with slasher

“Heart Eyes” may have finally arrived at the solution to the date-movie marketing problem wherein the gal wants to see a rom-com and the guy

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‘Disturbia’ (2007) a respectable teen take on ‘Rear Window’

After the Christopher Reeve “Rear Window” (1998) dug into the daily life of a quadriplegic, the 1954 Hitchcock classic further showed its flexibility as a

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Vaughn, Newton are great, but ‘Freaky’ is rather basic

“Freaky” has slasher-flick moments and it has comedic moments, but never at the same time, leading to a patchwork hybrid that always feels like a

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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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Millennial ‘Groundhog Day’ ‘Happy Death Day’ is no ‘Groundhog Day,’ but it’s not terrible (Movie review)

“Groundhog Day” (1993) is of course the touchstone of the “repeating the same day” genre, so when another film comes along with that premise, it’s

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Law of diminishing returns starting to kick in with ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ (Movie review)

The “Paranormal Activity” franchise continues to deliver the expected goods — scares or laughs, depending on your mindset — in its fourth entry. But like the “Saw”

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‘Paranormal Activity 3’ has the found-footage genre down to a science (Movie review)

Many horror franchises get lazy with each new entry, falling back on what worked in previous installments rather than getting innovative. I’m happy to say

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‘Paranormal Activity 2’ even better than the original (Movie review)

Shaune, a commenter on these threads, wrote about a year ago that he liked “Paranormal Activity,” but if they made a sequel he would hate it. Well,

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