Movie Reviews8.2/10
A Quiet Place Review: Silence Is the Scariest Thing in the Room
A Quiet Place review: Krasinski's 91-minute silence horror, Millicent Simmonds' casting, the nail scene, and why the gimmick mostly works.
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Tag: horror movies
How ‘Buddy’’s Final Twist Rewrites a Whole Family’s Memory
Buddy's ending explained: does Freddy escape the TV monster? Here's what happens to Grace, Freddy, and the horror movie's unsettling finale.
Movie Reviews8.4/10
Kubrick Buried the Horror in the Architecture, and 46 Years Later It Still Works
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining opened May 23, 1980. A look at the Overlook Hotel, Jack Torrance, the Grady twins, and why the horror classic still holds up.
Movie Reviews9/10
Kids Open a Hole to Hell in the Backyard, and 1987’s The Gate Still Makes It Look Easy
The Gate (1987) review: Tibor Takács's backyard-demon horror still terrifies, from the geode to the pint-sized demons and Stephen Dorff's debut.
Movie Reviews7.6/10
The Fly (1986): Cronenberg’s Slow Horror of a Man Coming Apart
Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) turns teleportation into body horror, with Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle and an Oscar-winning makeup job.
Movie Reviews7.3/10
Poltergeist: The Static Still Works
Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982) review: a haunted house built on moved graves, a portal in the closet, and why the static still works.
Movie Reviews9.3/10
Phantasm at 47: Don Coscarelli’s Self-Financed Nightmare Still Refuses to Explain Itself
Don Coscarelli's Phantasm (1979) reviewed: a self-financed horror nightmare with Angus Scrimm's Tall Man, flying silver spheres, and a 9.3/10 score.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
Hellraiser at 39: Clive Barker Took the Camera and Made a Horror Classic
Clive Barker's 1987 directorial debut Hellraiser: a $1M British horror film about a puzzle box, the Cenobites, and appetite without a ceiling.
Movie Reviews9.8/10
The Thing: Carpenter’s Antarctic Nightmare Is the Best Horror Film Ever Made About Trust
John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi horror The Thing: paranoia in Antarctica, Kurt Russell, practical effects, and the ending that still haunts us. Score: 9.8.
Movie Reviews9.5/10
The Evil Dead at 45: Sam Raimi’s Cabin Siege Still Closes the Trap
Sam Raimi's 1981 debut The Evil Dead, reviewed: five students, one cabin, a destroyed bridge, $90,000 and a franchise born at Cannes.