Nope (2022)

Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, Barbie Ferreira, Donna Mills, Keith David, Wrenn Schmidt My Rating: 5/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes: 81% Critics, 70% Audience Rotten Tomatoes Description: “Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent …

Freaky (2021

Rating: 5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83% Critic, 80% Audience Overview: When the town serial killer finds a body-swapping dagger, a teen girl gets more than she bargained for during your garden-variety murder attempt.  Cue a ticking timeclock to switch back before time runs out to make the swap, or the body count gets too …

Candyman (2021)

Rating: 5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 84% critic, 72% Audience Overview: A black man moves into gentrified suburbs with an eye to the future and an upcoming art show, but when the curator asks for new work, he discovers that the history of the neighborhood is a topic he never should have touched.  What if …

Them (2021)

Rating: 2/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes/Goodreads Rating: 60% Critics, 65% Audience Overview: A black family moves into the all-white neighborhood of East Compton, and find themselves at the mercy of neighbors who want them out, and even more malevolent forces that seek to break their family apart, or simply break them. Best element: When the show …

Old Gods of Appalachia (2019-present)

Rating: 5/5 stars Spotify Rating: 4.9/5 stars Overview: A horror anthology following the oral storytelling practices of Appalachian culture, Old Gods weaves a story of the magic and the mirth of the mountains in chapters that weave into one big, beautiful, and often bloody story. Best elements: The thing I like most about this podcast …

Scream Queens (2015)

Rating: 3/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77% Critics, 75% Audience Overview: A slasher series that follows a sorority as they try to survive a masked killer intent on picking them off.  Who will be the final girls or will the killer prevail? Best elements: The twists and inversions in the plot keep the story from …

Rings (2017)

Rating: 2/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 8% Critics, 23% Audience Overview: The killer tape resurfaces over a decade after we last saw it, and it falls into the hands of a college professor intent on finding out if the afterlife is real, with the tape as his proof.  But it all spins out of control …

The Ring (2002)

Rating: 2.5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% Critics, 48% Audience Overview: After a videotape that kills its watchers falls into the hands of a journalist, she has seven days to save herself and her family from its sinister curse before the tape comes to kill them all. Best elements: The way this film uses foreshadowing …

MA (2019)

Rating: 2/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% critic, 64% audience Overview: When a middle-aged woman buys booze for a group of kids, a friendship turns dangerous when “Ma” turns out to be the victim of their parents’ bullying, but who will pay the price for past transgressions? Best elements: The escalation in this film helps …

Limetown (2021)

Rating: 5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Overview:  A new iteration of the Limetown story, this series shows us Leah, and all the drama that happens off-air as she seeks the truth about what happened to the people of Limetown, including her own lost uncle. Best elements: The cinematography in this series is brilliant.  The way …