but I found it to be an absolute blast. The script is clever and knowing with energetic and fun characters. Kiernan Shipka as Jamie is especially brilliant with great comedy timing and delivery. The filmmakers embrace the joy of time-travel and horror film tropes...
It’s my version of the time loop trope made popular in the movie “Groundhog Day” but instead of focusing only on a single character this story explores what would happen to society if everyone in the world was trapped in the time loop together, with no chance of ever escaping. Next ...
While not a cast of one, like Moon, the cast is small, with only 7 credited characters. Kristen Stewart gets top billing as Norah, a mechanical engineer on the deep mining rig and carries much of the movie on adept shoulders. This is not, nor are any of them, a deep character, but...
She continued,“I got to play, you know, seven different characters in seven years, which as an actor is the most exciting, thrilling thing, and also allows an audience to be ready for anything you’re going to do because they’re not attached to one thing that you do,... See full...
Honest Abe was more than our greatest president—he was also a prolific vampire slayer who used his wood-chopping skills and trusty ax to vanquish scores of the undead. That’s the fanciful conceit of the movieAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. In th...
So, whether it’s to help people regulate their anxiety, be thrilled by getting scared, or to feel superior mocking the decisions of the characters, there are many reasons people love watching horror films – and if ...
s an absolute perfect execution of analog horror in the literary format. What I really enjoy about the radio broadcasts is how Henderson goes beyond exposition. This isn’t just lore dumps. No, in fact, the radio broadcasts become integral to the plot, the characters’ plans, and the ...
The movie: By the late '90s, horror was looking a little tired. The masked slasher trope was staggering along in a dire need of a cup of very strong espresso. What it got instead was Wes Craven’s Scream which, despite being parodied into Inception levels of postmodern irony since, rein...
players up creates a bunch of isolated storylines that almost always ends in bloodshed. Two movies where this happens areFriday the 13th: The New BloodandThe Thing(2011). In the clever 2012 horror comedy filmThe Cabin in the Woods, the characters even address why this trope is such a bad...
When you’re a horror fan, you get used to the idea that there’s nothing new under the sun. Movies andTV seriesalways fall into thehorror filmtrope — like “the group splits up” or “the virgin survives.” Audiences get tired of cliché after cliché. They crave new. They crave ...