by Justin Lockwood | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog
Church the cat Pet Sematary is probably Stephen King’s most notorious novel, famed for its dark and disturbing subject matter—especially child death— and its power to scare. The 1989 film, scripted by King and directed by Mary Lambert, was fairly trashy but...
by Justin Lockwood | Mar 30, 2019 | Blog
Lupita Nyong’o, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Winston Duke in Us Us opened last weekend to a mammoth $70.2 million, becoming the highest opening original horror movie and biggest ever opening for a film with a black female lead. What’s more, ...
by Justin Lockwood | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog
With a title like Fags in the Fast Lane, you expect a certain type of movie: politically incorrect. Exploitation throwback. Very, very silly. Australian production company Zombie Zoo Productions delivers on all of these counts, though my take is that...
by Justin Lockwood | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog
This twisty mystery could be your next obsession. Amazon’s miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock is an adaptation of the Joan Lindsay novel (previously adapted into what has become a cult film directed by Peter Weir) about the mysterious disappearance of a group of...
by Justin Lockwood | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog
Mary Shelley, my favorite feature from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival (and now available to stream), casts an electrifying Elle Fanning as the woman who invented science fiction with the classic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. Mary’s been portrayed on...
