The Story: A graphic novelist (John Cusack) begins a desperate search for his estranged wife (Clark Sarullo) and son (Ethan Andrew Casto) after a mysterious cellphone signal transforms New Englanders into savage killers. The novel was a page turner. I could quickly see it as a movie. When I heard it was definitely going to…
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The Story: In Louisana’s South, at the height of the Civil War, black slaves serve and please their white Confederate masters or die by gun shot or the fire shed. However, all is not what is seems, as Eden plots her freedom. What I liked: First off kudos to black and queer writer/director Gerald Bush…
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The first time I watched this, I’m pretty sure I had my covers ready to pull over my eyes….just in case. I gave it a second viewing, and yup… I definitely still had to steel myself against any scares. The Story: The footage follows the crew of a paranormal reality television program who lock themselves…
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What I Liked: If it wasn’t the first, The Blair White Project was the one that catapulted the found film horror genre to its apex. It changed the game forever. On such a low budget, it created a story of a documentary about a myth of a witch in the woods. It never lets on…
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The Story: Friends defy the rules of a legendary murderer and discover he is real when they start celebrating Valentine’s Day. (Google) What I liked: This film is a classic for creating a good ol’ fashion slasher flick on a holiday known for canoodling with a lover. Canadian accents and jukebox rock aside, My Bloody…
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The Story: The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood, who lives with her sister and uncle on an estate in Vermont. Six years before the events of the novel, the Blackwood family experienced a tragedy that left the three survivors isolated from the rest of their small village. (Wikipedia)…
Read moreWith this pick, I know I am dating myself. The fact that there will be some out there who don’t know about this ground breaking, progressive series, doesn’t come as a shock. Many shows today – their comedy, their pop culture references, their episode story lines and character developments – exist today because Buffy the…
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Originally published and edited from All Things MJ Cross Blogger 1/24/15. Carrie (2013) stars Chloe Grace Cortez as the film’s titular character and Julianne Moore as her deranged Christian-Fundamentalist mother, Margaret. By now, you may already know her name and the story. If you don’t please stop now and pick up the book. Spoilers follow!…
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Originally published and edited from my All Things MJ Cross Blogger on 12/17/2015. Yet another found-footage film. There’s something about having a first-person POV as you turn the corner of some dark tunnel, praying that there’s nothing on the other side. As Above, So Below is rift with these twists and turns. Essentially the story…
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Day 10 of #31daysofhorror reviews Parasite is a South Korean black-comedy thriller that came out in 2019 and near damn swept thee Academy Awards on its path to collecting many other accolades. So why watch Parasite for this or any other Halloween? First The Story: Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship…
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