What started off as a story about real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring (2013) became a smash-hit at the box office and a franchise was born. The Amityville Horror was their most famous case, yet it turned out that there was way more to their works than most of us knew. Warner …
Tag: Horror
Time for a Reel THE MEG review
August is in full swing which means, in the movie world, this is the time to burn through some titles that weren’t quite hot enough to withstand the summer blockbuster heat. It’s not necessarily that these are bad movies, although some of them definitely will be, it’s more of a case where the smart business …
Time for a Reel UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB review
The low-budget supernatural tech horror flick, Unfriended (2014), somehow managed to scare up some decent profits while delivering a flat feature film that was basic and bland in just about every way possible. Still though, this is an industry where money is king and originality is as rare as a steak cooked with one wooden …
Time for a Reel THE FIRST PURGE review
Five years ago, The Purge (2013) was released into the wild. The idea of living in a world where all crime was legal for 12 hours a year was quite compelling and proved its worth by making Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures a lot of money. Even though the ratings weren’t that hot, a squeal …
Time for a Reel HEREDITARY review
A24 has cultivated quite the reputation for doing more with less, especially when it comes to their horror movie lineup. Films such as The Witch (2016), It Comes at Night (2017) and A Ghost Story (2017) were all made with moderate budgets but each earned the praise of the majority of both critics and fans …
Time for a Reel Blumhouse’s TRUTH OR DARE review
April happens to be a month that contains a Friday the 13th. That means that someone will be looking to make a quick buck based on this ominous date in the world of horror. With another recently released horror movie, A Quiet Place, foregoing the easy target option of releasing on this cursed day (and …
Time for a Reel A QUIET PLACE review
There’s just something about a good horror movie that is accompanied by an equally powerful audio arrangement. In a well done horror movie, audiences can be subconsciously trained to get worked up prior to impending doom actually coming to fruition on the screen. Anyone can throw gore and lazy jump scares at you. The real …
Time for a Reel INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY review
We kick off the new year with a familiar story. The Insidious franchise has managed to stay relevant enough to garner continuous deeper plot explorations. Labeling the additional movies as sequels or even prequels would be incorrect. Blumhouse has taken a very interesting approach with the supernatural horror franchise. Rather than a linear continuation that …
Time for a Reel MAYHEM review
Joe Lynch is still in his adolescent formative years in terms of experience. Knights of Badassdom (2013) and Everly (2015) were the only feature length credits he has to his name thus far. And working from a position of inexperience, he has found a way to entertain audiences without making a huge splash in the …
Time for a Reel THE SNOWMAN review
Jo Nesbø is a best selling Norwegian author who has written more than 20 novels to date. By far, his most successful works are his Harry Hole novels. At first glance, Michael Fassbender looks to be a great casting choice for the tough detective, but as we did deeper into this complex character, will Fassbender …