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...

Arsenic and Old Lace is a rare Frank Capra comedy that eschews his usual social consciousness. There’s no Depression-era statement about the corrupting influence of money, as found in Mr. Deeds Goes t...

“We all have to die at some point,” says one character in Amy Seimetz’s new film. “Why not tomorrow?” Each day, the world seems to hack away at our resolve a little more. And while death is inevitable...

It’s almost a cliché at this point to call Charade the best Alfred Hitchcock film not directed by Hitchcock. Yet, there’s an undeniable truth behind the claim. The 1963 film contains a veritable check...

Christian Petzold’s Yella is an unassuming story with a powerful metaphor about the complexities of German reunification. When we first meet the title character, Yella Fichte, played by Nina Hoss, she...