Tag Archives: Lights Out

‘The Grudge’ is exactly the type of movie that gets dumped on the first weekend of January

Posted on February 1, 2020 by reelentropy

2/10 I adore Takashi Shimizu’s American Grudge movies from the mid-‘00s for their unforgiving pacing and dense array of strong jump scares, so I was excited to see a reboot coming from writer/director Nicolas Pesce – not because I’d seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged Andrea Riseborough, Insidious, John Cho, Lights Out, Nicolas Pesce, Ouija 2: Origin of Evil, Takashi Shimizu, The Conjuring, The Grudge | Leave a comment

‘It’ is boring, racist, sexualizes minors and has a 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes

Posted on September 8, 2017 by reelentropy

2/10 The titular monster in It comes out of the sewer every 30 years to feed, so remaking the movie — yeah, I know the 1990 version was a “made for TV miniseries,” eat me — makes a ton of … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #annabelle, #racism, #rotten tomatoes, #warner bros., a truer purer form of creative bankruptsy, Bill Skarsgard, Evil Dead, fetishization of minors, Finn Wolfhard, It, Lights Out, Paranormal activity, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, preteen bukkake, Sinister, Stephen King, Stranger Things, the babadook, The Conjuring, you'll float too | 2 Comments

Fresh director can’t elevate bland horror prequel

Posted on August 11, 2017 by reelentropy

3/10 The eminent horror production studio has started to inject real talent into its movies, but it’s clearly not always going to be enough. In Annabelle: Creation, a group of orphans moves into the spacious, rural house of the mysterious … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #annabelle, #james wan, annabelle 2, Annabelle: Creation, David F. Sandberg, Get Out, James Wan is a bad director, Jason Blum, Lights Out, Miranda Otto, Oculus, Paranormal activity, The Conjuring | Leave a comment

The most important films of 2016

Posted on January 2, 2017 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are boring and dumb and arbitrary and full of movies nobody’s ever heard of. A big goal of this site is to try and extrapolate the future of movies, so, instead of talking about the year’s … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #10 cloverfield lane, #batman v superman, #DC, #deadpool, #Disney, #ghostbusters, #hail caesar, #jared leto, #johnny depp, #jungle book, #margot robbie, #mcu, #pixar, #rotten tomatoes, #ryan reynolds, #sony, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the force awakens, #the witch, #warcraft, #warner bros., #zootopia, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America, captain america: civil war, Chinese New Year, comic con 2015, Darth Vader made a pun, DCEU, Disney made $7 billion this year, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, finding dory, Fox, gareth edwards, his name rhymes with Pullverine, Hunger Marketing, Lights Out, Logan, Marvel, now you see me 2, rogue one, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar Pei, Scientist Man, Secret Life of Pets, Shut down Rotten Tomatoes, Sing Girls, Steven Chow, The Ghostbusters cinematic universe, The Mermaid, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Zach Snyder | 1 Comment

Ouija defies the Natural Order

Posted on October 26, 2016 by reelentropy

Ever since The Conjuring blew the lid off the horror genre by opening to $41 million in July 2013, studios have been devoting most of their scary movie resources into Blockbuster season. October, traditionally horror’s time to shine, has become something of … Continue reading →

Posted in Documented entropy, Entropy | Tagged #blumhouse productions, #jack reacher, Absentia, annabelle 2, Annalise Basso, Blockbuster season, Boo! A Madea Halloween, Brett Ratner, David F. Sandberg, Elizabeth Reaser, Gerald's Game, John M. Chu, Lights Out, Lulu Wilson, Mike Flanagan, Occulus, Ouija, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Stephen King, The Conjuring | Leave a comment