They Remain
By Phil Guie March 12, 2018
William Jackson Harper’s of The Good Place brings a similar intellectual edge to this head-trippy horror flick, where he’s in what is most definitely a bad place.
William Jackson Harper’s of The Good Place brings a similar intellectual edge to this head-trippy horror flick, where he’s in what is most definitely a bad place.
Two orphans, a decrepit mansion, and a metaphysical presence.
With every shot a saturated, gorgeous explosion of kitsch perfection, this elaborate send-up of 1960s and ’70s occult sexploitation films boils and toils over a bubblin’ cauldron of sheer spectacle.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film is a candy coated, neon drenched homage to classic 1980’s psychodramas, and a loud, pretentious mess.
This is actually a romantic farce masquerading as a horror/comedy, with a light and dry touch.
In this horror/comedy, the camera crew of a third-rate home improvement show travels to Moldova to revisit an American living there to see how she fixed up her way, way deep-in-the-woods cottage.
Emelie preys on our nightmares and so has more in common with thrillers like Rosemary’s Baby than current pulpy horror flicks. Its scares are strongest when they’re coming from what’s hidden, and from what’s left unsaid.
The woods: few phrases conjure up scares so visceral. This portrait of a Puritan family confronted with witchcraft is ultimately about our most fundamental fears: the dark, the unknown, and, of course, one another. Believing that their settlements way of practicing their faith is too liberal, a family of sixhusband William, wife Katherine, eldest daughter […]
Before I settled down in my seat to watch the new horror/comedy Nina Forever, my friend and I were discussing a particular film that I liked and he didn’t. He did admire its audacity, though. He said it was a film you had to go “all in for.” Fortuitously, Nina Forever is an absolutely “all […]