The first thing to assault us is the music. A haunting, odd melodic blend of low menacing synths underneath joyful chimes harkens the memory...

Werewolves were hardly a fresh idea when John Landis helmed his mega-influential “An American Werewolf in London,” but it was one of the onl...

What a strange and surreal experience it can be to look upon George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” in the here and now, so long after z...

A plethora of fatal traumas attach themselves to dimwitted movie characters who dare to commune with the afterlife. Whether the opportunity ...

The key distinction between the original “Halloween” and “Psycho,” the movie it is most closely associated with, comes down to a need (or la...

It comes to our notice early on in Ti West’s “X” that his probable casualties are far from being conventional pop-up targets. They occupy sp...

25 years ago today, a young inexperienced journalist with a passion for gabbing about film took to the Internet on a journey to add his voic...

“When a Stranger Calls” endures primarily for two sequences that bookend a fairly routine middle act. The first, in which a young high schoo...

“There are few things as fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel.” There’s little more that can be said of the Tarantino method that ...

Somewhere in the vacant expanse that is the Mojave desert, four friends with unfledged verbal skills will partake in a sad, confusing ambush...

Movies like “Into the Storm” are an endurance test – not merely for the attention span of the audience, but for the patience of minds like m...

In theory, a movie like “Mandy” would be right up the same alley of brazen gorefests that have been known to captivate my morbid sense of vo...

Marginal movie villains are in copious supply in the films of today, but plausible, convincing ones have become an increasingly rare breed: ...

In many ways, you have to grin gleefully at the great audacity of Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World: Dominion,” a movie that feels less like...

Like the most notable of cynical movie narrators, Travis Bickle arrives in “Taxi Driver” less an observer and more a force of nature nearing...