Last week, movie theaters were haunted by The Boy –yet another in a long line of films that plays on the notion that kids can be super creepy. The Boy focuses on a seemingly living doll made to look like a deceased child. There’s no doubt about it: in the right context, kids ...
Director, André Øvredal (Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark (2019), Trollhunter (2010),and a recommendation to watch if you haven’t already,The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)) focusses on Dracula as the monster – his visage more bat than man, with glowing yellow eyes and needlepoint ...
The film itself is a decent watch and tongue-in-cheek sensibilities are necessary to appreciate the movie. There is a hint of art film qualities peppered throughout and it’s not a run-of-the-mill mainstream horror film either but a sense of humor and embracing the ridiculousness is require...
Suffer the little childrenKids are creepy enough in real life, with their pliable morals and tiny little hands. Still, the movies always manage to take it a step further. Arguably the most irksome spooky-child movie in existence, The Innocents was adapted by no less a light than Truman Capo...
There was no information in the post, just two creepy screenshots of misty locales and kids with bleeding eyes. The game was released in Japan that November, and then in the States in early 2004. I picked it up, played it for a while, and then put it down. The game was frustrating ...
For fans of the classic The Omen from 1976, The First Omen serves as a prequel with a couple of satisfying tie-ins to that great film. I can think of two examples incorporated simply because the filmmakers wanted to please moviegoers watching this film because of the original. ...
It’s since become a horror movie cliché that kids can’t be trusted, but at the time, they were thought innocent and sacred — an assumption this film shattered, effectively giving birth to the demon-child subgenre.85 Re-Animator (1985) Photo : ©Empire Pictures/Courtesy Everett ...
38. Eyes Without a Face (1959) Film Horror Director: Georges Franju Cast: Edith Scob, Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel Flaying aliveIf you’ve ever settled into an old-fashioned black and white horror movie safe in the knowledge that nothing here’s going to upset you too ...
A pitstop at a convenience store is the next overlong segment, with the kids talking to a store clerk who is cashing in on the infamy of the legend. They also have a run-in with a redneck, as is required in every movie in which city kids head into the woods. Another long segment ...
This is a strange, hodgepodge movie, a horror flick that makes you feel things, including empathy for its monstrous villain, that most horror movies don’t. Carol Kane plays a babysitter looking after the kids of a wealthy couple having a night out. Suddenly, she starts getting phone ...