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‘La Llorona’ doesn’t stand out, never wanted to
3/10 The Curse of La Llorona doesn’t go far enough. It’s the same tame, predictable movie-product the Paranormal Activity/Insidious/Conjuring super-brand has been churning out for more than 10 years now, this one vaguely Mexican-themed. In 1973 Los Angeles, because everything … Continue reading
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Tagged Insidious, Paranormal activity, The Conjuring, The Curse of La Llorona, The Nun
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‘Hereditary’ an audacious mixed bag
9/10 And now for Hereditary, this year’s “scariest movie ever made.” The film begins with the funeral of the Graham family matriarch, Ellen, after which her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) begins to see strange things around the house. The family soon … Continue reading
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Tagged #A24, #the witch, Alex Wolff, Hereditary, Milly Shapiro, Paranormal activity, the babadook, The Conjuring, Toni Collette
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‘It’ is boring, racist, sexualizes minors and has a 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes
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
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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
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Fresh director can’t elevate bland horror prequel
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
‘Rings’ a flavorless snoozer
‘Member The Ring? The movie that single-handedly launched the short-lived J-horror period in the early ’00s? It was really popular. Fifteen years ago. In the soft reboot Rings, trouble comes to paradise when Julia (Matilda Lutz) and her boyfriend, Holt … Continue reading
