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 …

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 …

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

Rating: 1.5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 17% critic, 45% Audience Overview: A family whose lives revolve around the cancer treatments of their oldest child decide to buy a house near the hospital.  What seems like a perfect house becomes a nightmare when they discover the premises is cursed, and the entities set their sights on …

The Nun (2018)

Rating: 3/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 25% Critics, 35% Audience Overview: A novitiate and a priest travel to a cloister deep in Romania, where a demonic entity is testing the faith of the sisters, but more is happening than what appears on the surface and the belief of holy man and woman will be tested …

The Conjuring 2

Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80% Critic, 81% Audience Overview: A family in Enfield, England becomes the victim of a demonic force when their youngest daughter is possessed by the spirit.  Only Ed and Lorraine Warren can help the family escape the terror that invades their home. Best elements: The focus on Janet as …

The Conjuring (2013)

Rating: 4/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% Critic, 83% Audience Overview: A family moves into a new home, where they are assailed by the demonic spirit of a witch who once owned their land.  With five daughters to protect, they call in Ed and Lorraine Warren to combat the demon, but will everyone survive Bathsheba? …

It: Chapter 2 (2019)

Rating: 3/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 62% Critic, 78% Audience Overview: Pennywise returns to Derry after 27 years and the Losers are back to try and put an end to the demonic clown once and for all.  Can they all survive the final encounter with the clown that haunted their nights since leaving Derry? Best …