Fear in real time. That’s the most tantalizing hook the horror genre has offered since “The Blair Witch Project” opened the “found footage” floodgates more than a dozen years ago. That genre reinvention eventually led to the 2007 Spanish horror masterpiece “[Rec],” my pick for the scariest movie of the past decade. That movie was…
You can’t keep a good prehistoric piranha down for long. After clearing Lake Victoria of them in “Piranha 3D,” the pesky flesh eaters have migrated to fun-in-the-sun summer destination: The Big Wet Water Park, in Piranha 3DD. The latest red-band trailer released today by Dimension Films makes it abundantly clear why the extra “D” is…
Nothing spells vacation like taking a tour of abandoned, radioactive towns in Russia. From the mind of Oren Peli (he brought you “Paranormal Activity“) comes his latest horror flick that, even though the title Chernobyl Diaries lends itself to a found footage flick, isn’t a found footage flick. It may as well be as it…
What normally happens to weird kids who proclaim to see and talk to ghosts? They get ignored, ostracized and/or bullied. Which is exactly what happens to little Norman in Focus Features’ claymation pic ParaNorman, that is until the town needs his peculiar gift. For reasons unknown (the trailer hints to a 300th anniversary of a…
A second trailer for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders has been released by Millennium Entertainment and it’s more jarring than the first that was released in May of 2011. This one somehow links a young girl and a young boy from two separate families with a ghoulish figure. What it wants and why it has locked…
He wore a stovepipe hat, had an awesome beard, ended slavery and was ultimately assassinated. Can you think of a better way to make the 16th President of the United States any cooler? Well I suppose hunting vampires in between his ratifying the laws of the land would make him more awesome. This fantastical alternate…
Alice is an unflattering name for a woman. It’s not, however, nearly as bad as Claire is. For me, Claire conjures up an image of a sad, homely girl whiling away the hours, in a rocker, crocheting a sweater. It is, therefore, a fitting name then for the boy-haircut having, wearing the same dull clothes…
