A legal drama that spends no time in an actual courtroom, Orson Welles’ “The Trial” (1962) takes a Hitchcockian conceit—the wrongfully…
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Two months before the release of “King Kong” (1933) would make ‘The Scream Queen’ Fay Wray a star, audiences witnessed…
A wise man once said, “A glorious horror film should be a slow-burn that includes confusion, unease, tension, a little…
“Trenque Lauquen’s” twelve chapters in two films might unfold in a way that some audiences might lose patience with, as…
Netflix is now showing its trilogy of “Fear Street” movies again—for the second year—as Halloween inches closer. The series of…
There have been 10 movies in the “Hellraiser” franchise, not counting Director David Bruckner’s latest one, credited as a “reimagining.”…
Bertrand Bonello’s “Coma” explores the existential miasma and uncertainty of the future through hallucinogenic playfulness in techniques and aesthetics. It creates…
Ready for my first hot take of the Halloween season? Rob Zombie is the closest thing we have to a…
Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to her hit directorial debut “Booksmart,” “Don’t Worry Darling,” is the precise definition of being less than…
Crafted by employing the pastel charms of Wes Anderson and the love of Agatha Christie, as well as the “Knives…