If you’ll remember, going waaaaay back to February of 2018, one of the scariest movies EVER was released. I’m talking about Veronica, the Spanish language movie about the cost of freeing malevolent entities via the old Ouija board. I found it to be not only hackneyed and cliche, but also not scary at all – click the link to read my review. Admittedly, I’m a horror movie fan and I’ve sat through some great horror, and the appreciation of horror (and what we find scary in general) is subjective. So I’m not slamming people who genuinely did find Veronica scary, more the idiots who make up clickbait headlines to promote either product, their website, or themselves. Hereditary arrived with such a campaign.
Tag: Demonic
Movie Review: THE BLACKCOAT’S DAUGHTER – as far as directorial debuts go, this is pretty striking, unfortunately, the reveal is a cheat.
Osgood (Oz) Perkins is a new name on the scene, but not an unfamiliar one. He’s the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins, so it’s fair to say that unlike other first time moviemakers a lifelong connection to the movie business ingrained within him some valuable moviemaking tips. It shows here in his first movie, which is a taut, suspenseful indie horror, starring Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), with fine supporting work by Lucy Boynton and, in particular, Kiernan Shipka. It’s well directed for sure, but the story itself depends on one particular conceit that doesn’t work, It’s a giant black hole and for me, the entire movie collapsed into it.