- John Hansen
- August 7, 2020
‘The Thing’ (1982) simmers in atmospheric dread
John Carpenter has built up enough of an oeuvre that everyone has their own pick for his elite work, but for me it’s “The Thing”
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- John Hansen
- July 20, 2020
‘Alienist’ makes welcome, if not happy, return with ‘Angel of Darkness’
With all the depressing news in the world lately, it’d be nice to get a happy new TV show to watch. So on Sunday, TNT
- John Hansen
- July 17, 2020
‘Nun’ (2018), ‘Curse of La Llorona’ (2019) expand Conjuring-verse
The “Conjuring” Universe is now seven films strong – with an eighth (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”) on the way in September.
- John Hansen
- July 10, 2020
‘I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer’ (2006) a cheap conclusion
“I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer” (2006) goes low-budget, low-talent and straight-to-video to wrap up the trilogy. Since it came out eight years
- John Hansen
- July 3, 2020
‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1998) a guilty pleasure
Director Danny Cannon and writer Trey Callaway pump up the humor and simple slasher pleasures in the sequel to 1997’s “I Know What You Did
- John Hansen
- June 26, 2020
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1997) a slicker slasher
“Scream” (1996) introduced a new era of slasher films by being brazenly self-referential, but also by having better production values and acting than the previous
- John Hansen
- May 31, 2020
Patterson’s ‘Vast of Night’ a gripping, stylish debut
Usually when a director drops his calling card, he has a few minor credits on his IMDB resume before that. But Andrew Patterson’s resume is
- John Hansen
- May 29, 2020
‘Sleepaway Camp’ (1983) is creepiest Afterschool Special ever
“Sleepaway Camp” (1983) is one of the most prominent lakeside summer camp slasher flicks in the wake of “Friday the 13th” (1980), and refreshingly its
- John Hansen
- May 28, 2020
‘Invisible Man’ is more about increasingly visible woman
Leigh Whannell was a writer before he was a director, but “The Invisible Man” shows off his directorial skills more than his screenplay-penning talent. This
- John Hansen
- May 18, 2020
‘X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos’ (2017) explores Mulder’s past
Despite the fact that “The X-Files” lends itself to standalone mystery novels, the franchise went 18 years between “Skin” (1999) and “Origins: Agent of Chaos”