Monthly Archive: November 2019

Horror / Movie Reviews

Zombieland: Double Tap

Directed by Ruben Fleischer

Oh boy, this has been a week. Been a lot of changes, I’ve come down with the plague, very stressful time. But I need to put SOMETHING up this week so here we are. Talking about a sequel to a movie I’m not a huge fan of but hey, this is what I saw last week so this is what I have to talk about. Either this or Tetsuo: The Iron Man, but I’m not coherent enough to get my opinions on that across so this is what we have, Jesse Eisenberg killing zombies and trying to get into a meaningful romantic relationship with Emma Stone. Let’s go!

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Horror / Movie Reviews

The Lighthouse

Directed by Robert Eggers

For all the hand-wringing over the fate of modern horror, there have been some insanely good horror directors appearing seemingly out of nowhere these past few years. Ari Aster, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Kent, these people all caused waves in the horror community when they arrived, just the same as Robert Eggers did with his first film, The Witch. An effortlessly tense period piece, The Witch stunned audiences with how easily Eggers seemed to figure out exactly what to do to make everyone super uncomfortable. Great speculation followed as to how Eggers would follow up such a movie. Now that The Lighthouse is here, does it live up to the strong start of The Witch? Read on to find out…but the answer is yes.

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Horror / Movie Reviews

Doctor Sleep

Directed by Mike Flanagan

Doctor Sleep is one of the most difficult to discuss movies I’ve ever watched for this website. Not because it’s experimental or challenging or I didn’t know what was happening, but because so much of what I feel towards the movie is based on my feelings towards Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, the film that this movie is (kind of) a sequel to. The Shining is one of the greatest and classiest horror films ever made, following that without seeming bad by comparison would be a nigh-impossible task. To be frank, I don’t think we ever needed a sequel to The Shining but I will do my best to be fair and discuss Doctor Sleep with an open mind.

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Dog Days of Summer / Movie Reviews

Arctic Dogs

Directed by Aaron Woodley

Before we get into Arctic Dogs let me tell you about my only look into what the general public thought about it pre-release. I was watching trailers before The Addams Family and a couple came on for upcoming animated films, which most people laughed at. Then the trailer for Arctic Dogs came on. I have never heard a quieter theater in my entire life. All talking ceased. No one could muster a reaction to the absurd generic mess before us. After watching the whole movie, in an empty theater, I might add, I have to say that their reactions were rather prescient, Arctic Dogs is mostly nothing.

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Horror / Movie Reviews

Parasite (2019)

Directed by Bong Joon Ho

Okay so this is a pretty unique intro I’ll give but here it is, don’t read the rest of this review if you want to be completely blind going in. Parasite is a great movie with twists and turns and if you plan to see it I would recommend not reading this and just going to see it. I’m not planning on spoiling anything significant but, better safe than sorry. So with that out of the way, time to talk vaguely about a great film, Parasite!

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