I need not have worried if the Annabelle franchise would give director David F. Sandberg as much room to play as his original film Light’s Out, which also premiered at LAFF last summer. In Annabelle: Creation, it seems the relative limitations of a possessed doll only inspired him and screenwriter Gary Dauberman to push the […]
When I saw Lights Out at the Los Angeles Film Festival, I felt like I’d discovered a new voice in both horror and cinema in general. One month later, I got to sit down with director David F. Sandberg and his wife Lotta Losten, who appears in the film and developed the concept with her […]
The Conjuring 2 is James Wan’s third horror franchise. He never expected Saw would create such a long running saga, which is scheduled to return at that. Insidious became a series of chapters, and the success of The Conjuring made a sequel inevitable. The real life Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) […]
The Conjuring 2 is two hours and 11 minutes long. That’s a whole lotta conjuring! It’s fun to see director/co-writer James Wan really get to indulge every aspect of supernatural horror he wants. After investigating Amityville, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) plan to retire. Yet Lorraine keeps having visions connected to […]
This movie review originally appeared on Nuke the Fridge: There won’t be a faster, more furious movie this year. The Fast and the Furious movies have turned their moniker into a guarantee of awesome. What makes them so special is that they embrace the escalating need to top not only themselves but the very genre […]