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3 From Hell (2019) 58% 2.5/5 EDIT “...the coolest thing by far is the inclusion on the soundtrack of three songs from the James Gang's 1973 Bang album, featuring Tommy Bolin on guitar.” – earofnewt.com May 11, 2020 Full Review The Platform (2019) 81% 3/5 EDIT “The notion is that, if each person took just enough to get by, there'd be plenty for everyone. But that's not always how people act. Have you tried buying toilet paper lately?” – earofnewt.com Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Crawl (2019) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “All in all, Crawl is a hoot for horror fans, although I doubt it'll impress the Everglades Tourism Board much.” – Georgia Straight Jul 17, 2019 Full Review Overlord (2018) 82% 2/5 EDIT “Hardcore fans of Fangoria seem to be the target audience for the no-holds-barred gruesomeness of the loud and relentless Overkill. Err...Overlord, I mean.” – Georgia Straight Nov 9, 2018 Full Review Hereditary (2018) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The wrath of Satan seems pretty tame compared to the suffering that damaged family members can inflict on one another.” – Georgia Straight Jun 7, 2018 Full Review A Quiet Place (2018) 96% 4/5 EDIT “...ultimately A Quiet Place emerges as an effective nightmare-maker for parents that is one of those rarest and most welcome commodities for fright-flick fans: horror with heart.” – Georgia Straight Apr 6, 2018 Full Review Unsane (2018) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Apart from one dubious scene in a padded cell, Unsane is hugely entertaining and crazy good, one of the best psycho-thrillers I've seen in years.” – Georgia Straight Mar 22, 2018 Full Review The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) 40% 2/5 EDIT “The moral of the story is not to take your loved ones for granted, I guess. Love them as much as you can before they get pinned inside a pickup by a chunk of wood in their gut and left at the mercy of an icepick-wielding sicko with a sack over his head.” – Georgia Straight Mar 8, 2018 Full Review Winchester (2018) 12% 2/5 EDIT “The silliness continues as we're waylaid by a wacky array of vengeful ghosts...culminating in a close-quarters shoot-out that produces plenty of splintered wood and shattered glass but nada in the entertainment department.” – Georgia Straight Feb 3, 2018 Full Review WolfCop II (2016) 65% 2/5 EDIT “The good news is that the sequel is vastly superior to the original. The bad news is that it's still pretty awful.” – Georgia Straight Dec 1, 2017 Full Review Jigsaw (2017) 32% 3/5 EDIT “[Saw 3D] garnered the worst reviews of any Saw flick, scoring 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. So of course they had to make another one.” – Georgia Straight Oct 27, 2017 Full Review It (2017) 85% 3/5 EDIT “As a critic specializing in scary films, I can honestly say that in the last three years alone there's been several that have impressed me more... I don't get what makes It so special.” – Georgia Straight Sep 21, 2017 Full Review mother! (2017) 68% 2.5/5 EDIT “When I saw the TV trailer for Darren Aronofsky's Mother! I thought it looked like a pretty decent horror flick... But now that I've seen it, I don't know what the hell it is.” – Georgia Straight Sep 15, 2017 Full Review Hellraiser (1987) 71% 2.5/5 EDIT “There are some intriguing special effects in the movie, but a limp script and unconvincing performances don't help. Worse of all, it isn't scary. I only jumped once during the entire film.” – Georgia Straight Sep 13, 2017 Full Review War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) 94% 3/5 EDIT “The sentimentality on display verges on saccharine, but the wild action sequences, lush photography, and first-rate production-design make up for it.” – Georgia Straight Jul 13, 2017 Full Review It Comes at Night (2017) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “It is one dark and downbeat mofo of a movie.” – Georgia Straight Jun 7, 2017 Full Review The Belko Experiment (2016) 55% 2.5/5 EDIT “...unless you're thoroughly entertained by the sight of folks dying gruesomely every six seconds or so the underlying commentary on social-science run amuck will hardly seem worth the brain-splattering tedium.” – Georgia Straight May 12, 2017 Full Review The Void (2016) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Man does not life by gore alone, and if he did he'd take the B.C.-shot Slither any day.” – Georgia Straight Apr 6, 2017 Full Review The Lure (2015) 89% 2.5/5 EDIT “Unless you're an alternative-film buff with a fierce attraction to the offbeat, the allure of The Lure may be lost.” – Georgia Straight Mar 16, 2017 Full Review Get Out (2017) 98% 5/5 EDIT “I've been reviewing horror movies professionally since 1988...and I can honestly say that [Get Out] is in my top 10 of all time.” – Georgia Straight Feb 23, 2017 Full Review The Girl With All the Gifts (2016) 86% EDIT “If you're not a fan of flesh-eater flicks by now, you surely won't be after seeing The Girl With All the Gifts.” – Georgia Straight Feb 23, 2017 Full Review Rings (2017) 8% 1/5 EDIT “See Julia get trapped and terrified in a crypt. See her get strangled by a murderous blind man. See her cough up the world's longest hairball.” – Georgia Straight Feb 3, 2017 Full Review Shut In (2016) 5% 2/5 EDIT “The film's big twist perks up the previously staid storyline momentarily, before a storm of scary-movie clichs buries it good and deep.” – Georgia Straight Nov 11, 2016 Full Review Rush: Time Stand Still (2016) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The main theme of Rush | Time Stand Still is devotion: both that required by the band to stay together for 40 years...and that shown by its biggest fans, notoriously hard-core followers.” – Georgia Straight Oct 26, 2016 Full Review Blair Witch (2016) 38% 2.5/5 EDIT “It's okay to crank everything up to 11, but you gotta know when to tone it back down.” – Georgia Straight Sep 17, 2016 Full Review
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