horror

Abigail adds an enjoyable twist to the horror/thriller genre. A group of would-be criminals kidnaps the 12-year-old daughter of a powerful underworld figure. Holding her for ransom in an isolated mansion, their plan starts to unravel when they discover their young captive is a bloodthirsty vampire. Abigail is an outstanding movie that Continue Reading

The First Omen is by far the best horror film of the year so far and takes the genre back to classic horror.  A woman (Nell Tiger Free) starts to question her faith when she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy to bring about the birth of evil incarnate in Rome. The Omen series Continue Reading

Immaculate had potential as a horror film but fell short of expectations. An American nun (Sydney Sweeney) embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbors a Continue Reading

Kicking off the 2024 movie season is Night Swim, the new horror movie from Blumhouse, and it may not be as scary as I would have liked but the story was interesting enough to keep me engaged.  Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller Continue Reading

Thanksgiving is a campy, polished, refreshing slasher gem full of mystery, suspense, self-awareness, smarts, and gruesome kills. An axe-wielding maniac terrorizes residents of Plymouth, Mass., after a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy. Picking off victims one by one, the seemingly random revenge killings soon become part of a larger, Continue Reading

Five Nights At Freddy’s was fun but freezes regarding the fright factor and thrills.  A troubled security guard (Josh Hutcherson) begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the late shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through. When Continue Reading

Critic Rating:  3.5/5 A Haunting in Venice puts a supernatural twist on ​​Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot’s third mystery. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) investigates a murder while attending a Halloween seance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, Italy. Mysteries can be dull, with so much set up, talking, Continue Reading

Critic Rating:  3.5/5 The Nun 2 takes audiences back into the darkest chapter of The Conjuring Universe, but is this second crusade worth your time? In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful Continue Reading

Critic Rating:  4/5 Get ready to dive back into the Further for one final chapter with Insidious: The Red Door, which also marks the directorial debut from franchise star Patrick Wilson.  Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) heads east to drop his son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), off at school. However, Dalton’s Continue Reading

Critic Rating  4/5 Evil Dead Rise has a lot going for it – it’s got plenty of gore, and horror, and is just evil – and will please horror and die-hard fans of the franchise.  A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing Continue Reading