A movie dealing with very heavy topics puts them aside for not altogether convincing romp through horror land. A bit incomplete, a bit overstuffed, but actually fairly enjoyable.
Category: Movie
This movie about a young couple in a spooky mansion is a video-game adaptation that deeply embraces its source material, making some bold choices. Some work. Some don’t. Its unique style helps to stand up compared to others, though.
Hokum is an dream-like nightmare about guilt and encountering the other world. Damian McCarthy continues to craft well-built puzzle boxes and again the enjoyment you get from it is likely tied to how well you feel like solving it. But how doesn’t like Adam Scott playing an absolute ass of a character?
Sokolov’s (et al) 2026 They Will Kill You does not really make sense but it is joyously bloody, flashy, and stylish in its madness. I could have gone either way with it but at the end I feel mostly satisfied. It was a good time.
This hybrid ghost- / animatronic-horror movie coasts on a mixture of good visuals and the good chemistry of the sibling pair at its core but regularly slams into walls of non-sense. More a missed-chance than modern classic but fair enough when it just lets the cast shut up and the screen do the talking.
The Long Walk does an astounding job of bringing the source material to life and both honoring the original but also updating it in dozens of minor ways to show how the story of young men walking to their death is still a poignant parable. Great cast. Great choices. It is perhaps only the ending that ultimately fails to convey the horror.
Now that Halloween is over (by a few days, even), time to show off the stack of movies I watched in celebration. As is legally required for any horror-adjacent blog (see 27-A-§13-10.31).
The most damning praise I can offer for Jurassic World: Rebirth is that I did not hate it. It does an ok job of continuing the world building from previous films and gets quite a few things right. Those things are often buried and entangled in a lot of errors that give a sense of wild mix of ideas being pressed together. The resulting “soup” is sometimes strange and confusing in its ingredients. It is nearly better to think of it as two separate movies that just happened to be playing at the same time.