Hocus Pocus isn’t just camp or nostalgia. It’s a minor family classic.
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Send Help is Sam Raimi’s effective if lax tropical riff on Misery.
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Alexander Ullom’s high-concept debut feature conjures an existential nightmare.
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Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s action horror sequel is a mere reheat.
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Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ horror thriller weaponizes Hugh Grant’s diabolical charm.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 J-horror film predicted the new millennium in terrifying ways.
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes is redundant in a media culture saturated with serial killer stories.
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Ghosts of Mars is minor Carpenter, but still an enjoyable riff on Assault on Precinct 13.
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Danny and Michael Philippou’s follow-up to Talk to Me is a more gruelling, complete film than its predecessor.
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Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.
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Frank Darabont’s Stephen King horror adaptation plays like a dry run for The Walking Dead.
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This sequel to the surprise Netflix horror hit, The Platform, loses the elegance of its predecessor.
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Shyamalan’s 2004 film has its merits, but revisiting it reveals the muddled philosophy that drives it and robs it of many key thrills.
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The Faculty is Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the MTV generation.
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Michael Curtiz’s Doctor X demonstrates the perverse strangeness of pre-Code horror.
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The Brothers discuss Erle C. Kenton’s pre-Code horror adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.
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Anders ranks the films of the Final Destination series, one of the first horror franchises of the twenty-first century.
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Tod Browning’s Freaks is an icon of pre-Code horror and a great drama about the lives of circus performers.
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Eddie Murphy’s The Haunted Mansion is an effective spooky movie for children and families.
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