Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Halloween Horror Review: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s action horror sequel is a mere reheat.

Halloween Horror Review: Heretic (2024)

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ horror thriller weaponizes Hugh Grant’s diabolical charm.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Flash Back, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromOctober 9, 2026Heretic, Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, Topher Grace, Halloween HorrorComment

Halloween Horror: Pulse (2001)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 J-horror film predicted the new millennium in terrifying ways.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, Flash BackAren BergstromOctober 31, 2025Pulse, Halloween Horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi MatsuoComment

Halloween Horror: The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is redundant in a media culture saturated with serial killer stories.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Flash Back, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromOctober 23, 2025The Poughkeepsie Tapes, John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle, Stacy Chobsky, Ben Messmer, Ivan Brogger, Lou George, Michael LawsonComment

Halloween Horror: Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Ghosts of Mars is minor Carpenter, but still an enjoyable riff on Assault on Precinct 13.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, Flash BackAren BergstromOctober 20, 2025Ghosts of Mars, John Carpenter, Larry Sulkis, Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall, Joanna CassidyComment

Halloween Horror: Bring Her Back (2025)

Danny and Michael Philippou’s follow-up to Talk to Me is a more gruelling, complete film than its predecessor.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 16, 2025Bring Her Back, Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, Bill Hinzman, Billy Barret, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally HawkinsComment

Halloween Horror: Longlegs (2024)

Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 31, 2024Osgood Perkins, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka, Longlegs, Halloween Horror, horrorComment

Halloween Horror: House on Haunted Hill (1959)

William Castle’s carnivalesque fright house movie is a very fun time.

Halloween Horror, Flash Back, ReviewsAnton BergstromOctober 31, 2024House on Haunted Hill, Vincent Price, William Castle, Robb White, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook, Julie Mitchum, horror, haunted house, carnival, Ennis HouseComment

Halloween Horror: The Mist (2007)

Frank Darabont’s Stephen King horror adaptation plays like a dry run for The Walking Dead.

Halloween Horror: The Platform 2 (2024)

This sequel to the surprise Netflix horror hit, The Platform, loses the elegance of its predecessor.

Halloween Horror, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 21, 2024The Platform, The Platform 2, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, David Desola, Pedro Rivero, Egoitz Moreno, Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, Oscar Jaenada, Antonia San JuanComment

Halloween Horror: The Village (2004)

Shyamalan’s 2004 film has its merits, but revisiting it reveals the muddled philosophy that drives it and robs it of many key thrills.

Halloween Horror, Reviews, Flash BackAnders BergstromOctober 18, 2024M. Night Shyamalan, The Village, Halloween Horror, thriller, allegory, twist ending, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrian Brody, William HurtComment

Halloween Horror: The Faculty

The Faculty is Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the MTV generation.

Halloween Horror: Doctor X (1932)

Michael Curtiz’s Doctor X demonstrates the perverse strangeness of pre-Code horror.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 13, 2023Doctor X, Halloween Horror, pre-Code horror, Michael Curtiz, Robert Tasker, Earl Baldwin, Terror, Howard W. Comstock, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, Lionel AtwillComment

Roundtable: Halloween Horror: Island of Lost Souls (1932)

The Brothers discuss Erle C. Kenton’s pre-Code horror adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Films of the Final Destination Series

Anders ranks the films of the Final Destination series, one of the first horror franchises of the twenty-first century.

Halloween Horror, FeaturesAnders BergstromOctober 31, 2023Halloween Horror, horror, slasher, Final Destination, Devon Sawa, Ali LarterComment

Halloween Horror: Freaks (1932)

Tod Browning’s Freaks is an icon of pre-Code horror and a great drama about the lives of circus performers.

Halloween Horror: The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Eddie Murphy’s The Haunted Mansion is an effective spooky movie for children and families.

Halloween Horror: The Witches (1990)

The Witches remains a notable blend of horror and adventure for kids, and the most surprising movie of Nicolas Roeg’s career.

Halloween Horror: The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)

Even more than Poe’s story, Corman’s version highlights familiar features of the Gothic.

Reviews, Halloween HorrorAnton BergstromOctober 6, 2023Roger Corman, The Fall of the House of Usher, horror, Halloween Horror, Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Gothic, Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard MathesonComment

Halloween Horror: Hellraiser (2022)

David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot is a flattened riff on the tale for a flattened cinematic culture.