Horror Rated NR
“…knows it’s ridiculous, so it makes that ridiculousness part of the fun.”
” … the off-kilter production design suggests it’s actually taking place within the confines of a deeply disturbed mind.”
Horror Rated R
“…provocation at its ugliest.”
Sam Raimi’s third Evil Dead entry, in which our reluctant stud hero Ash (cult figure Bruce Campbell) must fight the requisite demons in the 14th century. Raimi and his camera never slow down, which is good because many of the gags don’t stand up to scrutiny. Still, his effects manage some nice nods to the
A derivative shocker that’s as dreadfully dimwitted as its name, Ghost Ship follows a salvage crew and their discovery of a cruise liner that’s been lost at sea for 40 years. It may sound creepy, but the ship turns out to be little more than a floating display of horror-movie cliches. If there’s any creativity
Saw opens with a jarring jolt, as two men wake up to find themselves chained to pipes in a fetid bathroom. Yet rather than remain in this claustrophobic situation, the movie opens up into a standard and gleefully grisly serial-killer thriller. It doesn’t help that one of the trapped men is played by Cary Elwes,
Like its predecessor, Saw II centers around a serial killer who spends so much time designing complicated torture devices with which to murder his victims that it’s a wonder he ever gets around to the actual killing. This time around, he has filled a booby-trapped house with a group of random people, including the teen
A remake of the 1976 thriller about a little boy who sidelines as the Antichrist, this features an alarming number of classy actors getting whacked in the most classless of ways. Among the victims of various impalings and beheadings are Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father), David Thewlis (Harry Potter and the Prisoner
Here’s where Hannibal Lecter officially transforms from pop icon to camp figure. This blatant exercise in Hollywood opportunism – Thomas Harris’ book was already adapted in 1986 as Manhunter – never has a chance thanks to Anthony Hopkins’ self-parodying performance. The only thing left for Hopkins now is to hit dinner theaters reciting the bad
After a boatload of sequels to the 1979 original, there was really no way of wringing more blood out of this horror franchise other than to start back at the beginning with a remake. Ryan Reynolds stifles the wisecracks as the husband and stepfather who succumbs to the demons of his new haunted mansion. The
