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 …

Malignant (2021)

Rating: 4/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% critic, 52% Audience Overview: When a woman finds herself plagued by one of her childhood inventions, a boy named Gabriel, she becomes embroiled in a string of murders that she witnesses as they occur, even though she never leaves home.  The story, though, is much more complex, and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Last Night in SoHo (2022)

Rating: 5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% Critic, 90% Audience Overview: A young fashion student moves into a London flat, only to find herself haunted by the history of the room in which she sleeps.  While struggling to define herself from the dreams she has as “Sandie” Collins, Ellie fights to make her dream of …

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 …

Hereditary (2015)

'' Rating: 2/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 90% Critic, 68% Audience Overview: A family grieving the death of Grandma becomes haunted by tragedy, but the worst is yet to come.  Grandma may not have been the innocent matriarch the family thought she was, but just what was she hiding? Best elements: The best element of …