Split is an incredibly tense and well-made thriller that features fantastic performances by James McAvoy and Anya Taylor Joy. M. Night Shyamalan is back, for better or worst. The last Shyamalan movie I watched was 2008's The Happening, so you could understand my hesitance going into this movie. Although I heard mostly good things about his last…
Tense, grizzly, and incredibly well-made, Green Room is a unique and incredibly strong entry in the thriller genre. What can I say about Jeremy Saulnier's dark and twisted Green Room that hasn't already been said? It's a movie that has never truly existed until now. Maybe the general premise has, but the way Saulnier tackles it is unique in almost…
Atmospheric and suspenseful, The Invitation is a blast to watch and easily one of the best movies of the year so far If you haven’t watched The Invitation yet, open up Amazon or iTunes and watch it right now. I’ve said it about other movies, but if I had to choose one movie for you to…
Though it doesn't quite reach the potential of its premise, Oculus packs in enough tension to make it a solid horror movie Yet another entry in the psychological horror rooted in childhood emotional trauma genre. Running in two different timelines, Oculus follows a brother and sister as they try to destroy a mirror that contained the ghosts…
10 Cloverfield Lane easily one of the best early movies of the year with nail-biting tension that rivals Hitchcock himself I think Cloverfield is a movie that got better with age. Despite the questionable decisions of characters and odd editing choices, it was a generally entertaining disaster movie. However, its "spiritual sequel" is changing the way…
Mike Flanagan follows-up Oculus with an equally menacing and thrilling movie in Hush Blumhouse Pictures has become a horror-movie machine and the latest one off the conveyor belt is Mike Flanagan's Hush. Most people were probably introduced to Flanagan after his second feature Oculus, a movie that we loved. While Hush strips out the supernatural elements that Oculus had, what it maintains is the…
Don't Breathe boasts impressive cinematography and direction that makes the tension almost unbearable, but makes you want to instantly watch it again. 2016 has been quite the year for genre films with strong entries ranging from Green Room to Hush, but the one that truly unnerved me was Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe. It's a story that feels familiar. It's a home invasion…
Atmospheric and menacing, Trey Edward Shults' sophomore feature It Comes At Night is a family drama disguised as a horror movie that works on both levels. The "it" in the title of Trey Edward Shults' sophomore release It Comes At Night is as much of a mystery as the plague that has driven the characters in the movie…
The first time I watched You're Next was when it finally made it to a wide release after making the rounds at festivals for nearly two years. Although it already had a lot of premise-bias against it, its biggest hurdle was to overcome the success of “The Conjuring," which premiered earlier that summer. Although "The Conjuring"…
It's almost Halloween, which means that you're looking for one thing: horror. And blood and guts and gore too, I guess. What better way to find those things in a safe and controlled way than watching horror movies at home on Netflix? So, for your ease and pleasure, here is a list of the 13…
