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It’s a bit surprising to consider that nearly as many years have elapsed since John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi thriller The Thing as between it and its own predecessor, 1951’s The Thing From Another World, directed by Howard Hawks. Both are widely considered to be classics in the sci-fi horror genres, so a third version has [...]

Director Steven Soderbergh is back in big-budget Hollywood mode with Contagion, a slick and proficient, if largely impassive, thriller about a global pandemic featuring an all-star cast saying their lines and going through very professional motions.

Just so we’re clear, Guillermo del Toro didn’t direct this big screen version of a 1973 TV movie. He co-wrote and, as with 2007’s The Orphanage, produced it. I mention this so you don’t think him responsible for what turns out to be an unscary little horror flick.

Just as this enjoyable horror franchise seemed set to go out with a whimper with a lazy and lackluster fourth installment (titled, rather inaccurately, The Final Destination), along comes a fantastic fifth entry to rouse it back from the dead.

Having recently turned The Fog and The Hitcher into uninspired rehashes, Hollywood finally gets an ’80s horror remake (mostly) right with its sleek makeover of 1985’s memorable vampire flick Fright Night, an excellent example of how good casting, a sharp script and just the right kinds of tweaks to the original [...]

We’ll start with the premise of the film, then decide if “that conversation” needs to happen again.
Milos (Srdjan Todorovic), a semiretired Serbian porn star, finds it hard to provide for his family on the savings left from his career. A father with a gentle, hangdog demeanor (except onscreen as a [...]

There was a time when people thought Kevin Smith was going to change the face of movies as we know them. He didn’t, and as evidenced by his new film Red State, he never will.

Where some sequels don’t want to advertise the fact that they’re just another installment in a series of films, director Wes Craven’s surprisingly decent Scream 4 never stops reminding us that it’s yet another entry in the overly self-aware horror franchise.

That Insidious is a frightfully good horror film shouldn’t really come as a surprise. It was directed by James Wan, the Malaysian-born Australian behind the first Saw flick and the criminally underrated ventriloquist-dummy creepshow Dead Silence. Like those efforts, it employs an unusual plot device, refreshingly emphasizes mood over gore and [...]