Showing posts with label Mike Flanagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Flanagan. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Doctor Sleep (2019)


 

Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal. 

Homage and expansion of the story told in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is very well-made staged and entertaining, but - in contrast to the original - it goes more with Stephen King's concept and is a no-holds-barred supernatural outing. 



Friday, 26 February 2021

Oculus (2013)


 

A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon. 

Very well to look at and with a capable cast this horror flick ha style and atmosphere, but thoroughly disappoints any high expectations with a silly and illogical plot.

Maltin**1/2: "Handsome, well-acted horror film is so inventively edited, the past and present correlate; too bad such skill is expended on a plot that's just the same old horror-movie stuff."  



Friday, 12 June 2020

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)



In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business by inviting an evil presence into their home, not realizing how dangerous it is.

Average supernatural horror dram operates all the usual cliches on its way along a well trodden path; that said, slightly better, i.d. more coherent, than its predecessor. 


Friday, 13 December 2019

Gerald's Game (2017)



While trying to spice up their marriage in their remote lake house, Jessie must fight to survive when her husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her handcuffed to their bed frame.

Well-made, imaginative psycho-thriller delivers the goods with some twists, but is mainly watchable for Carla Gugino's appropriate performance.

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Hush (2016)



A deaf and mute writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.

Well-made slasher movie with a good cast is suspenseful and delivers some shocks, but it is not a particularly original take on this genre.