Lovecraft adaptations tend to be all over the place, quality-wise, with the gold standard arguably being Stuart Gordon’s 1985 Re-Animator and its follow-up, 1986’s From Beyond. So when the writer of both those films, Dennis Paoli, contributed a screenplay for the 2023 film Suitable Flesh—a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1937 short story, “The Thing … More Movies: Suitable Flesh (2023)
Way back in the 1990s, I distinctly remember really enjoying a 1995 horror thriller titled Mute Witness; I may have even owned it on DVD at some point, though if I did I have no idea where it eventually disappeared to. I never really heard anyone talking about it, even at the time, so it … More Movies: Mute Witness (1995)
Director Alex Garland was back on my mind recently as I went to the theater to see his latest film Civil War (which we discussed at length here). I remembered how much I had loved his previous films Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), not to mention the fact that he had written the screenplay … More Movies: Men (2022)
Starting a couple of weeks back, I was hearing a lot of people in the horror community suddenly talking up the 2022 Spanish film The Coffee Table (aka La mesita del comedor), which according to many reviewers is one of the most traumatizing films to come out in recent years. Because of all the buzz … More Movies: The Coffee Table (2022)
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been on a bit of a mini-quest to actually watch some of the most-talked-about new horror films while they’re still (relatively) new, hence actually going to the theater to see the incredible Late Night with the Devil (which we livestreamed a review for here), and paying $6.99 to … More Movies: Stopmotion (2023)
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is quite a celebrated director, having been nominated for six Oscars as well as winning a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. His style is very idiosyncratic and provocative, to say the least, but is so singular that I’m pretty sure you could never mistake one of his films for anyone else’s, … More Movies: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
The Scare Salon 