Monthly Archive: February 2020

Fantasy Island (2020)

Directed by Jeff Wadlow

Oh god, Fantasy Island. Can we be done with these? Can we be done with crappy horror movies getting dumped onto an innocent world? I thought we had escaped the majority of these when January turned out to be a pretty decent month for horror, but it turns out that studios were saving them all for February instead. I hope the Invisible Man is good because after watching Fantasy Island, and knowing that I have to watch Brahms: The Boy II next, I am dreading going back to a movie theatre. So yeah, you can probably guess whether or not I liked Fantasy Island.

Gretel & Hansel
Directed by Osgood Perkins

I’ll lay my cards on the table, I was not looking forward to Gretel & Hansel. The idea of another retelling of a classic fairy tale as a horror movie had me rolling my eyes. And a horror movie coming out in January? I was ready to walk out hating this just as much as I hated The Turning and churn out another hit piece review. But then something magical happened! It did a lot I wasn’t expecting and I walked out happy to have seen it. What did it do so right? Keep on reading to find out.