The world of Tarot card reading and fortune telling serves as the subject matter for Tarot, an adaptation of the horror Horrorscope. A group of college friends spend a weekend in the mansion in the Catskill Mountains to celebrate Elise’s (Larsen Thompson) birthday. Whilst up there the group discovers a special deck of hand-drawn tarot cards and they […]
Tag: Horror Movie
The First Omen Review
The Omen series has been given the prequel treatment with The First Omen. This prequel takes the series in a new direction by being a Nunsploitation film. Margaret Daino (Nell Tiger Free) is a young American woman who arrives in Rome in 1971. Margaret plans to take the vows to become a nun and works in an […]
Immaculate Review
Immaculate is a religious horror film that sees its star, Sydney Sweeney, work as a producer. Sister Cecilia (Sweeney) is a young American nun who believes she is meant to serve God after surviving a near-death experience as a child. She travels to Italy to serve in a convent that cares for nuns nearing the end […]
Imaginary Review
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 […]
Out of Darkness Review
Out of Darkness is a pre-historic survival-horror film that has played well on the festival circuit. It now has a chance to reach wider audiences thanks to Signature Entertainment in the UK and Ireland. 45,000 years ago a ragtag band of humans arrived in a new land. Despite the promises of a bountiful land by their […]
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 […]
Thanksgiving Review
Many holidays have suffered from cinematic slasher villains. Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day are some of the most notable. Eli Roth has added to this seasonal sub-genre with his tongue-in-cheek gore fest Thanksgiving. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Black Friday sales at Right Mart go horribly wrong due to a lack of security, a group of […]
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 […]
Britflix: The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is considered one of the greatest and most influential British horror films. It is celebrating its 50th Anniversary so now is a great time to revisit this film. Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) is a police officer and a devoted Christian. He receives a letter from Summerisle, a remote island in the Outer Hebrideans […]
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 […]