A Movie Displaced in Time

A Movie Displaced in Time It Follows, though often mistaken for a movie representing STD’s, is a film that beautifully argues the effects that sexual assault has on its victims. An internal conflict represented outwardly. David Robert Mitchell’s ability to take a psychological fear and capture it in a frame and tell it narratively is …

Film Review Blog- Get Out

The film Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele came out in 2017. Peele was originally on the hit adult tv show called "Key & Peele". The movie is about an interracial couple, Chris and Rose. Chris goes to meet Rose' family for the first time with worries of them not accepting him because he is …

Don’t Breathe Film Review

Don’t Breathe follows a group of three amateur home invaders who think they have stumbled upon their easiest, most rewarding heist yet. However, they got a whole lot more than what they bargained for after choosing a disabled man to take advantage of. They decided to target a wealthy blind man, so due to his …

Film Review- Insidious

The movie Insidious came out in 2010 which falls into the mystery/thriller genre. I consider this movie a horror film because it involved supernatural happenings. The movie is about a family who just moved into a new house. The house turns out to be haunted where ghost are looking for bodies to possess so that …

The Cabin in the Woods: A film for Horror Audiences

  I feel the need to preface this with the fact that I am not a horror fan, nor do I usually have the stomach to sit through most horror movies. I turn away at the mere hint of a jump scare, and I feel queasy after seeing a screen splattered with gore. That being …

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) *Spoiler Alert*

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) is a South Korean horror film centered around family dynamics. The film starts out with one of the main characters, Su-mi, being released from a mental hospital. She then goes home with her sister to find that her dad has remarried and that she now has a stepmom named …

The Violent Consumer in Misery: Film Review

  In this unpredictable horror thriller, the self-deprecating author Paul Sheldon finishes the last book of his hit series and, as he drives from his woodsy cabin to the nearest town in an angry blizzard, wrecks his vehicle in what should have been a fatal accident. Instead, we watch as a pair of hands pull …

Film Review: The Innkeepers

The film The Innkeepers directed by Ti West is about a haunted hotel and the adventures the hotel staff go on trying to solve the hauntings before the hotel closes for good. The characters in the film have the underlying sense of either being washed up or lingering in a state of not knowing their purpose …

Blog Post: Carrie (1976)

In the film Carrie directed by Brian De Palma, tells the tale of a sheltered girl who's extremely religious mother sets her up to be bullied by her peers by keeping her isolated and uniformed about the female body. Since Carrie is unaware of the female body cycles, she finds herself extremely distressed when she starts …

Blogpost: The Craft

The Craft directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Robin Tunney and Fairuza Balk, is a film about teenage outcasts who tap into the main character Sarah’s supernatural abilities. Sarah Bailey, the new girl in a high class Los Angeles high school is befriended by three young girls who take her under their wing as she …