Guillermo del Toro is the king of oddities. Throughout his storied career, he’s taken on everything from comic book adaptations and horror films to giant alien robots, yet the writer-director never fails to impassion his dark fantasy tales with beauty, heart and magic—everything you’d ever want from a trip to the movies. His most recent, The…
Say what you will about The Room, but don’t disregard that 14 years later, you’re still saying it. Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 unintentional comedy is lauded as the “Citizen Kane of bad movies,” yet now in theaters, the James Franco/Seth Rogan squad can be seen portraying Wiseau and the rest of the film’s original cast. Adapted…
When we think about maniacal Santa Clauses in horror, we often go straight to the axe-wielding Billy from Silent Night, Deadly Night, or the homicidal madman who stalked Joan Collins in the Tales From the Crypt movie segment “…And All Through the House” (or its TV episode remake from 1989). For what it’s worth, all these classics have been…
The opening of Michael Dougherty’s 2015 horror comedy, Krampus, is the antithesis of what the holidays should symbolize. It’s a slow-mo montage of seasonal stressors, from rioting customers and crowded stores, to the poor defenseless employees who are doomed to deal with the craziness. With all of this Christmas hullabaloo, it’s no wonder young Max…
Daniel Day-Lewis shocked the world in June when he announced his intentions to quit acting for good. His spokesperson said: “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives…
One of the hardest things to learn growing up is that your parents—the heroic adults who seem to know everything, the center of your entire universe—are just flawed, regular people. For Danny (Adam Sandler), Matthew (Ben Stiller) and Jean Meyerowitz (Elizabeth Marvel), that realization came to them at far too young an age. In The Meyerowitz Stories…
“I hate California…I want to go where culture is like, New York, or Connecticut or New Hampshire,” declared Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, with vigor, to her mother. Our showing in New Haven, Conn. certainly shared a laugh at her naivety, her missive proving she’s never heard the “grass is always greener” proverb. For whatever Lady Bird’s titular…
Like Bill Murray and (dare I say) Nicolas Cage, Jeff Goldblum is a national treasure. He’s an actor and man whose own celebrity has been re-fueled thanks to internet memes and strange public appearances. I mean, we’ve all seen him with his shirt off. We’ve all seen Jurassic Park. We’ve all heard that laugh. There’s just…
A murderous principal, werewolves, a school bus massacre, a demonic pumpkin creature. In lesser hands, these elements combined might signal an overly ambitious, convoluted mess jammed into a tight 82 minutes. Luckily, Trick ’r Treat is quite the opposite: a bold anthology of Halloween tales stitched together like patchwork on a quilt, written and directed…
Ten years later: Victor Crowley lives, and the fourth film in the Hatchet series, aptly titled Victor Crowley, just so happens to be the best one. Everything about it works, from its blood splattering deaths and dismembered limbs, to its fast-paced, campy tone. It may also be the funniest. Goddammit, Hatchet fans, you’re in for a treat.…