Crime’s hit an all-time low in The Purge, but the neighbors of James Sandin (Ethan Hawke, “Sinister”) are still scrambling for one of his signature security systems, which promises to turn any home into an impenetrable fortress. That’s because, to keep these rates so minimal, the United States has instituted the annual “Purge,” a 12-hour…
Josh Lambert may have gone into the astral plane world of “The Further” to save his son in “Insidious,” but something isn’t done with him or his family just yet. We know this because the first creepy trailer for James Wan’s Insidious: Chapter 2 tells us so. Starting off well enough with a happy household,…
If sci-fi movies have taught us anything, it’s that aliens tend to paint their allegiances in black and white. There’s no middle ground between the amiable charm of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and the acid-spewing nastiness of the vicious xenomorphs that terrorize the humans in “Alien.” Occupying each end of the spectrum, aliens tend to be…
Let’s not mince words here: Sinister scared the fucking shit out of me, and that is not an accolade I hand out lightly. It’s rare to stumble upon a truly scary movie in this day and age; the horror genre has grown stale of late, with filmmakers constantly wasting our time with predictable jump scares…
Not to personalize my critique too much, but the most frightening moment about Paranormal Activity 4 was when I tripped on a buffer cord coming out of the theater. The pain and embarrassment of my clumsiness, however, was nowhere near the agony I felt while watching what I hope will be the final installment of…
A second trailer for Paramount Pictures’ Paranormal Activity 4 was made available today and it is marginally better than the one from August. A few new characters make an entrance but the result is basically the same. Grainy security camera and Handycam footage catch creepy things going on in a house that are related to…
Today Paramount Pictures dropped their trailer for Paranormal Activity 4 and its clear that they’re going to milk every drop of money they can from this franchise. The new catch? The young next door neighbor to Katie and Hunter (she walked off with him in “Paranormal Activity 2,” I think) is getting spooked by them…
