CHILD’S PLAY **** USA 1988 Dir: Tom Holland. 87 mins A mainstream, slasher-era reworking of the unforgettable Zuni doll story from Dan Curtis’ TRILOGY OF TERROR, this also replays the “boy who cried wolf” scenario from director Holland’s earlier FRIGHT NIGHT. Hapless vampire-bothering teen William Ragsdale is replaced with juvenile…
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THE CONJURING **** USA 2013 Dir: James Wan. 113 mins Released within weeks of the equally lucrative INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2, this box office smash employs a definitive “Based On The True Story” title card and a suitably gaudy 70’s yellow font for the title itself, acknowledging its debt to that…
The official trailer for HELL HOUSE LLC III: LAKE OF FIRE, from genre distributor TERROR FILMS, is finally here! The highly anticipated 3rd installment in the popular HELL HOUSE LLC franchise, from writer and director Stephen Cognetti along with producer Joe Bandelli, is set to premiere exclusively on SHUDDER Thursday,…
PET SEMATARY **** USA 1989 Dir: Mary Lambert. 103 mins Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” (1983) is perhaps his darkest hour, taking the shocking child death of his earlier “Cujo” (1981) to its natural next stage: an oppressively grim, “Monkey’s Paw”-inspired study of a nice family man who goes to extreme…
Genre distributor Terror Films is pulling out all the stops ahead of the official premiere of HELL HOUSE LLC III: LAKE OF FIRE, which will debut exclusively on Shudder this fall. For the third and final installment of Stephen Cognetti’s HELL HOUSE LLC franchise they are releasing the official poster…