Blumhouse Productions

Maybe the biggest surprise of this Halloween season is Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s clever re-working of the 1976 film “The Town That Dreaded Sundown”, which itself barely cleared cult status outside of Texarkana where the string of grisly unsolved murders that inspired the film had occurred in 1946. Director Charles B. Pierce’s original was nothing to scoff at, […]

Mark your calendars, folks: Only 364 days until the next annual Purge. Or so it promises at the end of this sequel to last year’s Ethan Hawke-starring home invasion movie “The Purge”, which at the very least was a serviceable thriller with a couple of decent twists and turns. No such thought was afforded “The […]

Taking a page from the book of what not to do with a horror picture, director Mike Flanagan seems less concerned about being an innovator in the genre than he is about learning from the mistakes of filmmakers who’ve butchered some potentially creepy concepts in the past. In a category where it’s almost impossible not […]

The hype surrounding director/co-writer Mike Flanagan’s Oculus had me believing it was going to be a thrill-a-minute scarefest from which there was no return. After watching the film, I came away from it with a greater appreciation for its storytelling. It wasn’t a “so scary, I jumped out of my seat” kind of film; instead, […]