Jaume Collet-Serra

‘House of Wax’ (2005) doesn’t melt under pressure to be a good romp

“House of Wax” (2005) falls on the right side of that line with horror movies where you generally know what’s going to happen. On one

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‘Black Adam’ a goofily fun but hypocritical superhero romp

The line between video-game graphics and movie CGI is almost erased in “Black Adam” (HBO Max). It was ostensibly filmed in New Zealand, but I

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‘Orphan: First Kill’ silly where ‘Orphan’ (2009) is creepy 

“Orphan” (2009) is one of the all-time great “creepy kid” horror films, driven by an amazing turn by Isabelle Fuhrman and a skin-crawling final-act twist.

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Minimalist ‘The Shallows’ (2016) maximizes thrills 

“The Shallows” (2016) is minimalist shark horror as high art. Surfer/med student Nancy (Blake Lively) gets stranded on a rock two football-field lengths from a

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All 16 DC Extended Universe movies, ranked

What a weird, well-cast, disastrous and yet not-totally-lacking-in-entertainment run it was for the DC Extended Universe from 2013-23. Though it was also known as the

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Network TV takes another crack at found-footage horror with ‘The River’

There’s nothing else on TV like “The River” (8 p.m. Central Tuesdays on ABC), so maybe it’s unfair to say this about a show that’s trying to

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