The biggest problem with Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula is the title and the expectation it creates. The movie does not feature a train, nor does it spend much time in the South Korean city of Bus...

In Freaky, Blumhouse once again creates moviegoer catnip by adding a horror twist to an established, pointedly non-horror genre. With Happy Death Day (2017), the company folded a slasher into the same...

Mirage follows in the footsteps of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers and, more to the point, Stanley Donen’s success with the Hitchcockian Charade from 1963. Gregory Peck stars as a cost accountant with a ca...

Reading both vintage and modern reviews of The Great Escape, one finds countless examples of writers who describe the 1963 hit as “great escapism” or a timeless adventure. The film is seen as a stirri...

Children who watched The Witches in 1990 had nightmares from Roald Dahl’s bedtime story (I was one of them). In the film, which blends a don’t-talk-to-strangers message with a boy-becomes-mouse fantas...

Filled with creepy crawlies and even slimier elitist fratboys, Night of the Creeps plays genre mix-n-match with dizzying ambition. Slugs from outer space, a criminally insane axe-murderer, zombified c...

“You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store” “Sixteen Tons” by Me...

In Host, co-writer and director Rob Savage delivers a blend of subgenres, combining the found footage movie with desktop horror, albeit crafted for our current pandemic eternity. The setting is cloyin...

Sonic the Hedgehog is based on the popular Sega video game from the 1990s, where players navigate a blue cartoon with red sneakers across rollercoaster-like worlds. The game was basically anthropomorp...