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Tag Archives: Horror
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) ☆☆☆(3/4): The Vampire Wears Chador
While injecting some fresh blood into its genre conventions, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” wanders around its strange and familiar world filled with bleak beauty and ominous aura. As an eerie and melancholic vampire tale set in some … Continue reading
It Follows (2014) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Something Wicked This Way Follows
“It Follows” is a creepy little horror film with the mounting sense of fear and dread. Unlike those lesser horror films merely hanging on cheap shocks, it knows how to grab our attention through mood and suspense, and the result … Continue reading
Wyrmwood (2014) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Road of the Dead
Australian movie “Wyrmwood”, a.k.a “Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead”, is a little horror film mainly consisting of familiar spare parts borrowed from other zombie movies. As you have probably guessed right from my first sentence, the movie has your average … Continue reading
What We Do in the Shadows (2014) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Meet vampire flatmates
“What We Do in the Shadows” is one of the most hilarious comedy films I saw during recent months. It is indeed an one-joke comedy as I guessed from its trailer, but this is a smart, funny horror comedy which … Continue reading
The Guest (2014) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Guess who’s coming to their home?
Many horror films announce to us in advance that something bad will happen sooner or later, and “The Guest” makes its ominous announcement a little too much. Besides the occasional appearance of moody music, we are served with 1) a … Continue reading
The Babadook (2014) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Be careful of what you read
“The Babadook” is a horror movie about something wicked lurking around somewhere, and it is quite an effective one. Slowly building up the sense of dread around its ominous background, the movie works as the harrowing drama of a strained … Continue reading
Under the Skin (2013) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Fascinating ambiguity under its SF skin
“Under the Skin” will baffle you and frustrate you with its cold, abstract style, but it is also a weirdly fascinating experience you cannot easily forget. The movie only gives us a few bits of vague information on what is … Continue reading
The Signal (2014) ☆☆1/2(2/5/4) : They follow it, and then…
In my humble opinion, style and substance are necessary for making a good SF film. For drawing our curiosity, SF film needs some style to create its own mood and reality, and that will make us believe that something fantastic … Continue reading
Oculus (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A family matter with one sinister mirror
“Oculus” did a fairly good job of building the sense of dread around one sinister object which turns out to a lot more dangerous and diabolical than we expected. While there are a few moments for shocks, the movie disturbs … Continue reading
Escape from Tomorrow (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : One freaky day at Disney World
“Escape from Tomorrow” is a curious work resulted from one small, interesting attempt, and this little independent film was made under the limited conditions which could have made its production quite impossible from the start. The people behind it had … Continue reading
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