Family Drama

‘Dead End’ (2003) is darkly comedic Christmas horror

“Dead End” (2003) is one of the most efficiently budgeted Christmas horror films out there, but luckily it’s not a dead end of entertainment. Balancing

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Hannah tries to get into the spirit with ‘Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night’

“Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” (1938) is a solid book with one of the most unlikely types of killers in Agatha Christie’s catalog, but it’s a little

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‘Evil Dead Rise’ is … another ‘Evil Dead’ movie

Like the 2013 “Evil Dead,” “Evil Dead Rise” – the saga’s fifth entry – tells the same story as the 20th century “Evil Dead” trilogy

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It’s hard to believe there was passion behind ‘Exorcist: Believer’

“The Exorcist: Believer,” a 50th anniversary legacy sequel from Blumhouse that – like its recent “Halloween” 40th anniversary trilogy – ignores all the previous sequels

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‘Blue Beetle’ should’ve been given the ‘Batgirl’ treatment

DC cared enough about protecting the brand of “Batgirl” that it scrapped a completed movie so the public wouldn’t see a bad “Batgirl” movie. But

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‘Lake Mungo’ (2008) a grief-laden mystery-horror classic

As “Talk to Me” puts Australian horror back on the map, and “Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor” has me on a found-footage kick,

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Poirot sifts through lies in ‘The Killings at Kingfisher Hill’ (2020)

Hercule Poirot uses his knowledge of human psychology to solve crimes almost as much as he uses physical evidence. In her Christie estate-commissioned Poirot novels,

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Green, Branagh tell their own Poirot tale in ‘Haunting in Venice’

After adapting two Agatha Christie classics – “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile” – with an edgier, darker version of Poirot,

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‘28 Days Later’ (2002), ‘28 Weeks Later’ (2007) infect zombie fiction with emotion

“28 Days Later” (2002 in the U.K., 2003 in the U.S.) fast-tracked zombies back into the mainstream for a new century. Director Danny Boyle and

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‘Fall of the House of Usher’ doesn’t collapse under its ambitions

“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Netflix) must’ve been a fun writing project for Mike Flanagan and his staff of eight scribes. They use

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