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Lisa Frankenstein is a bad Tim Burton movie with two unlikable main characters. A satirical tale of the high school-age romance between an undead serial killer (Cole Sprouse) and his weird enabler girlfriend (Kathryn Newton), the movie not only re...

The 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors is a celebration of two beloved motion picture genres: the musical and the cheesy science fiction flick. Before making it to the screen in its final form during the '86 Christmas season, Little Shop of Ho...

Spoilers Ahoy! This review talks in detail about plot points, including the ending, so if you haven’t seen either the play or the movie and want to experience it without knowing beforehand what happens, I suggest avoiding this review.In late...

Longlegs is a well-mounted horror film where a sense of dread and discomfort infuses every frame of every scene. From a narrative perspective, however, it’s an abject failure. Style can only get a movie so far and, in this case, that’s maybe 1...

A few films from the 1980s have aged like fine wine. More, however, have turned to vinegar. The Lost Boys, despite its nostalgia-soaked reputation, falls into the latter category. A horror comedy that is neither as scary as it should be nor as fun...

Putting aside the cheesy TV commercials and theatrical trailer, it’s clear that M3gan has more on its agenda than being the next iteration of a Chuckie-style slasher movie. A case can be made that this production, directed by Gerard Johnstone fr...

On the surface, Ma is seemingly just another entry into the generic horror/thriller category about a seemingly good-hearted stranger who worms her way into the bosom of a group before showing her true (psychopathic) tendencies. Although these ...

A noir horror movie of the most un-classic kind, Brad Anderson's The Machinist takes you into the unstable mind of an insomniac with a dark secret whose life has become a bleak emotional wasteland devoted only to going through the motions of workin...

Mama follows an unfortunate recent pattern that has emerged in low-budget horror films, especially those with PG-13 ratings. It starts out strongly, using evocative visuals and an unsettling backstory to establish a creepy tableau, but it proves un...

When watching something like Mary, it’s useful to remember that actors, like all of us, have mouths to feed and bills to pay. That’s why an Oscar winner like Gary Oldman and a respected actress like Emily Mortimer can find themselves adrif...