Blumhouse, the stable of modern-day horror, uses the world of imagination and imaginary friends with Imaginary. Jessica (DeWanda Wilde) is a children’s book author and artist who moves into her childhood home with her rock star husband, Max (Tom Payne), and stepdaughters Taylor (Taegen Burns) and Alice (Pyper Braun). Little Alice develops a friendship with […]
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Night Swim Review
Night Swim is the first cinematic horror film of 2024, taking the traditional January horror slot. This film sees a family who are haunted by a malicious swimming film. The Waller family move to Minnesota due to the family patriarch; Ray (Wyatt Russell) being forced to retire from professional baseball. They seem to have found the perfect home […]
Five Nights At Freddy’s Review
2023 has been the year of video game adaptations. Cinemas saw the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Gran Turismo whilst The Last of Us and Twisted Metal have found success on television. Blumhouse has taken on the task of adapting the horror game franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s. Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson) is an out-of-work security guard who’s battling his aunt, Jane […]
The Exorcist: Believer Review
The Exorcist is 50 years old and a seminal horror film, but the sequels have been a mixed bag. David Gordon Green and Blumhouse aim to repeat what they did with the Halloween series by making a direct sequel to the original film and plan to start a trilogy. Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.) is a widower […]
Insidious: The Red Door Review
Insidious: The Red Door is the fifth film in the Insidious series and sees the return of the Lambert family for the first time since 2013. After the events of Insidious: Chapter 2, Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) and his son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins) have their memories erased of Dalton’s coma, Josh’s possession, and suppressing their powers. Nine years later Dalton is […]
M3GAN Review
M3GAN sees two giants of the horror genre, Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster team up for a high-tech version of Chucky. Gemma (Allison Williams) is a robotics expert who works at the toy company Funki. Gemma’s life is altered forever when her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident and she must take care […]
Halloween Ends Review
David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy has come to an end with Halloween Ends. It has already garnered a reputation as one of the divisive films in the Halloween franchise. It has been four years since Michael Myers’ escape and rampage. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has attempted to move on with her life by moving back to Haddonfield and sharing a house with […]
The Black Phone Review
Based on a short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone sees a Sinister reteaming of Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, and Ethan Hawke for a chilling horror flick. In 1978 a suburb of North Denver is being terrorised by a serial killer. Five boys have gone missing, and Finney (Mason Thames) becomes the sixth child to be […]
Firestarter (2022) Review
Blumhouse, the horror production company, make their first adaptation of a Stephen King, with their version of Firestarter. Charlie McGee (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is an 11-year-old girl who struggles with her pyrokinetic powers. After a bullying incident in school Charlie’s powers get exposed and force the girl to go on the run with her father (Zac […]
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin Review
The Paranormal Activity franchise was a pop-culture phenomenon for the first half of the 2010s. The release of a new Paranormal Activity was essentially an annual tradition, as the series churned out sequels nearly every October. It reinvigorated the found-footage genre, and in doing so, made a killing at the box office. Its star faded […]