Category Archives: Horror

Hellboy (2019) | Neil Marshall

April 17, 2019Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, SuperheroDaniel Dae Kim, David Harbour, demon, giant, Hellboy, Ian McShane, King Arthur, Mike Mignola, Milla Jovovich, Sasha Lane, sorceress, witchVince Leo

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In this Neil Marshall reboot, we already have an established the scarlet-bodied Hellboy (David Harbour) as part of the B.P.R.D. (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense), working for his adoptive father, Professor Trevor “Broom” Bruttenholm (Ian McShane), in corraling and eradicating malevolent supernatural menaces wherever they may arise around the world. Hellboy reunites with Alice Monaghan (Sasha Lane), a powerful medium, and a cat-beast man named Major Ben Daimio (Daniel Dae Kim), in order to prevent the Blood Queen from Arthurian times named Nimue (Milla Jovovich) from taking a mate and growing powerful enough to finally take over the world and eliminate the human presence upon it once and for all.

Pet Sematary (2019) | Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer

April 8, 2019Fantasy, Horrorcurse, Jason Clarke, Jete Laurence, John Lithgow, Pet Sematary, resurrection, Stephen KingVince Leo

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Pet Sematary is the second film adaptation of the Stephen King novel first published in 1983. The premise involves a family of four who relocate from the hustle and bustle of Boston to a small town in Maine called Ludlow on a wide parcel of land that includes many acres of wooded forest. It’s in that forest that their daughter Ellie (Jete Laurence) discovers a cemetery for beloved pets of people in the surrounding area, going back decades, including one belonging to their elderly neighbor Jud (John Lithgow). Turns out they may need the use of the cemetery, as their kind kitty named Church gets run over, causing the father, Louis (Jason Clarke), to have to bury the cat, though he can’t quite bring himself to tell Ellie and break her heart. Jud doesn’t want to see that happen and suggests burying Church in a special place far deeper into the woods. Lo and behold, Church is back with the family the next day, but it’s clear he’s not quite himself anymore.

Us (2019) | Jordan Peele

March 21, 2019Comedy, Horror, Thrillerdoppelganger, Elisabeth Moss, Jordan Peele, Lupita Nyong'o, Santa Cruz, social commentary, Tim Heidecker, Winston DukeVince Leo

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As a young girl living in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz in 1986, Adelaide walked away from her parents while at the beach boardwalk amusement park, into a seemingly empty fun house, and saw something that would negatively affect her the rest of her life. Flash forward to today, and Adelaide is now married with two kids, and her husband, Gabe Wilson, has a yen to visit Santa Cruz for a family vacation, not knowing about her deep-seated fear of her experience there. Despite her qualms, she consents to go, and while things appear harmless, she has a bad feeling about it. Her feeling would turn out to have merit, as they are soon visited in their rental by another family of four that looks just like them, except they mostly can’t speak well, and they’re dressed all in red. The house soon becomes under siege by the doppelgangers, resulting in a battle for survival – a battle for continued existence, really – between the Wilsons and the Others. Stars Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke. Written and directed by Jordan Peele.

Greta (2018) | Neil Jordan

March 12, 2019Horror, Mystery, ThrillerChrloe Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, Maika Monroe, mother-daughter, Neil Jordan, New York, piano, stalker, surrogate motherVince Leo

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Although the film is called Greta, Chloe Grace Moretz’s character, a young waitress named Frances McCullen, is the one we follow most, newly relocated to New York City from Boston after losing her beloved mother. Frances is perhaps a little too nice and accommodating for her roommate Erica’s (Maika Monroe) tastes to not get taken advantage of by the worst the Big Apple has to offer. That niceness comes into play when Frances finds a lost purse sitting on a seat in her subway car, prompting her to return it its rightful owner, a mature Parisian widow living in Brooklyn named Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert). The two become friends, filling a niche in each other’s lives, with Frances finding a surrogate for her mother in her time of grief, and Greta a surrogate daughter for the one that is no longer in her vicinity. Frances says she’s like chewing gum – she tends to stick around – which is music to Greta’s ears. However, something feels amiss in the relationship that causes Frances to try to end it, and the less-than-stable Greta doesn’t seem to be taking the separation well. Neil Jordan directs this off-kilter thriller.

Halloween (2018)

October 22, 2018Horror, ThrillerDanny McBride, David Gordon Green, halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, serial jkiller, slasher movieVince Leo

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Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode in this sequel that ignores all others in the franchise after John Carpenter’s 1978 original HALLOWEEN. Michael Myers breaks from his prison existence to return to where it all started, in Haddonfield, IL, during Halloween. Esteemed filmmaker David Gordon Green directs and co-scripts this intriguing return to look at trauma-survivor Strode and the inevitability that predator and prey will once again battle it out for survival, even forty years later.

Venom (2018)

October 8, 2018Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Superherobased on a comic, Marvel Comics, michelle williams, superhero, tom hardy, venom, villainVince Leo

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The Marvel Comics villain gets the antihero treatment in this Spiderman-less origin story filled with grotesque body horror and lots of crazy CGI-infused action. Tom Hardy stars as reporter Eddie Brock, who finds himself the host of an alien symbiote he discovers within a hi-tech laboratory he’s investigating. That alien needs live organs to feast upon, which means Eddie’s if he can’t find other things for “Venom”, which is what the symbiote calls himself, to ravenously consume. Michelle Williams stars as Brock’s ex-fiance, and Riz Ahmed is the head of the corporate lab out to experiment on the living in order for humans to try to survive on other planets when this one is no longer, inevitably, inhabitable. Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer directs.

The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

September 24, 2018Comedy, Fantasy, HorrorCate Blanchett, clock, Eli Roth, haunted house, Jack Black, John Bellairs, mansion, Michigan, set in the 1950s, warlock, witchVince Leo

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Set in a small town called New Zebedee, in Michigan during the mid 1950s, we follow the adventures of a ten-year-old orphan named Lewis Barnavelt, mourning the recent loss of his parents to a fatal car accident, staying in the rickety and seemingly haunted Victorian mansion of his uncle, Jonathan. Jonathan is an eccentric warlock often visited by his neighbor, a witch named Mrs. Zimmerman, and the mansion he resides in is anything but mundane. A new home also means a new school for Lewis, who is immediately labeled as a square by his peers and subsequently picked on as he tries in vain to make a friend. School isn’t the only place of learning for the boy, as Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmerman begin to teach him the ways of the warlocks, whose acts are spurred on by visions of his dead mother, while they mysteriously spend their time looking for a fabled clock hidden within the walls of the mansion. Jack Black and Cate Blanchett co-star in this PG-rated film by Eli Roth.

The Predator (2018)

September 22, 2018Action, Adventure, Horror, Science Fictionaction, alien, horror, predator, sci-fi, spaceshipVince Leo

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Shane Black tries to do what no one has done thus far, and that’s to make a good follow-up to John McTiernan’s 1997 action classic, PREDATOR. Here, the Predators are back searching for their old technology, and possibly taking over the Earth, having to confront a rag-tag group of disgrace military vets in their way. Boyd Holdbrook, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Keegan-Michael Key, Trevante Rhodes and Jacob Tremblay also appear.

Summer of 84 (2018) – A Podcast Film Review

August 26, 2018Horror, Mystery, Thrillermystery, paranoia, retro, set in the 1980s, teenagersVince Leo

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RKSS return after their Turbo Kid to deliver yet another throwback to the 1980s in the mystery-suspense-horror flick, SUMMER OF 84. A quartet of boys go out in search of a serial killer of teenage boys (just like them) that they feel could be the cop that lives in their very own neighborhood, and seek to find the evidence needed to bring him to justice. The further they go out, however, the more exposed they are to becoming the next victim in their manhunt.

The Meg (2018) – A Podcast Film Review

August 11, 2018Action, Adventure, Horror, ThrillerJason Statham, Jon Turteltaub, ocean, sharkVince Leo

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A big shark and Jason Statham are the big draws to THE MEG, in which a rescue team of humans must try to survive, and eventually take on, a prehistoric shark of gargantuan proportions that threatens everyone off of the coast of China. Jon Turteltaub directs this PG-13 action-horror hybrid that some compare to the JAWS and JURASSIC PARK series, or, at least, its low-aiming sequels.

To the '90s and Beyond!

A retrospective film review podcast covering the movies of the 1990s and the newer movies influenced by them. Hosted by Vince Leo of Qwipster.net

Category Archives: Horror

Hellboy (2019) | Neil Marshall

Pet Sematary (2019) | Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer

Greta (2018) | Neil Jordan

Halloween (2018)

Venom (2018)

The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

The Predator (2018)

Summer of 84 (2018) – A Podcast Film Review

The Meg (2018) – A Podcast Film Review