Awaken the Shadowman tries really hard to be a ‘slow-burn’ of a horror movie but misses the point that for that to work it has to have a satisfying payoff. While it has plenty of intriguing mysterious moments about it, the lack of answered questions is astounding.
Questionable marketing aside (originally called The Watcher), The Bad Nun has many positives that makes it a worthwhile watch. It even has some moments that will chill as well as plenty that thrill.
Directed by Matt Frame, Camp Death III in 2D is a stupid, lewd, gory and hilarious send-up of slasher horror while poking fun at one of the more enjoyable Friday the 13th sequels. A horror/comedy parody of Friday the 13th Part III 3D although it takes inspiration from slasher horrors in general.
While not a remake of the 1984 mind-wrapping madness that was Razorback, Boar shares quite a bit in common with it. The obvious being that it is an Australian horror film. One set in the Australian countryside and has people being attacked by a huge, bloodthirsty boar.
Upgrade is set in the near, technologically advanced future. It focuses on Grey Trace, a self-proclaimed technophobe. One day, his entire world is turned upside down when he is left paraplegic after a horrific mugging. Not only that but he was forced to watch his wife bleed out & die before his eyes. Contemplating suicide, Grey is given a lifeline in the form of an experimental computer chip implant called STEM.
Attack of the Adult Babies promises tongue in cheek silliness with plenty of toilet humour and unsurprisingly it delivers on both. Just be prepared for not a lot else in the way of entertainment.
Almost 20 years later, for no reason beyond the fact that shark horror is in vogue at the moment, we got a sequel to the fan-favourite Deep Blue Sea. At best it can be called fun which is everything Deep Blue Sea 2 is not even though it tries very hard to copy events and sequences from the original.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s likely you’ve heard of Hereditary. You know, the horror movie that is widely considered to be the “scariest of 2018” or “this generations The Exorcist”. That’s quite a claim, especially in such a divisive genre. Hereditary was written & directed by Ari Aster, on his directional debut. In short, it follows a family haunted after the death of their secretive grandmother. Does it live up to the hype?
