‘Veronica’ adds grit to slick Ouija subgenre of horror
Movie review: “Veronica” doesn’t redefine Ouija board horror, but it certainly approaches it from a different perspective.
Horror Movies
‘Veronica’ adds grit to slick Ouija subgenre of horror
‘Get Out’ reviews
John’s “Get Out” review, johnvhansen.com, June 25, 2017 Michael’s “Get Out” review, Top 20 films of 2017, Jan. 21, 2018
‘Mother!’ reviews
Shaune’s “Mother!” flashback review, May 9, 2019 Michael’s “Mother!” review, Top 20 films of 2017, Jan. 21, 2018
‘The Fly’ (1986) review
John’s Frightening Friday flashback review, Nov. 28, 2025 “The Fly” – Starring Jeff Goldblum (who kind of looks like a fly) and Geena Davis (who kind of looks like Goldblum), director David Cronenberg’s “The Fly” […]
‘The Langoliers’ review
“The Langoliers” – Directed by Tom Holland, “The Langoliers” is among the elite TV movies, Stephen King movies and time-travel movies. It works much like a mystery: The plot twists and turns like a roller […]
‘The Relic’ reviews
John’s “The Relic” flashback review, Sept. 27, 2020 “The Relic” – The book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is the scariest novel ever written, so there was really no way director Peter Hyams could […]
Millennial ‘Groundhog Day’ ‘Happy Death Day’ is no ‘Groundhog Day,’ but it’s not terrible (Movie review)
“Groundhog Day” (1993) is of course the touchstone of the “repeating the same day” genre, so when another film comes along with that premise, it’s intriguing, but it also gives me pause: Will it merely […]
‘Cloverfield Paradox’ pays lip service to science, turns into a familiar space thriller (Movie review)
“The Cloverfield Paradox” (which recently debuted on Netflix), the third installment of the loosely connected Cloververse saga, takes topical physics such as the recently discovered God Particle and the popular multiverse theory and smashes them […]
Michael’s top 20 films of 2017
There were a lot of great films in 2017. So many, in fact, that this year I have decided to do a top 20 list instead of my usual top 10. It means more writing, […]
‘It’ taps into ’80s nostalgia, but is short on scares (Movie review)
The 2017 “It” remake – now available from Redbox — is the most Stephen Kingy Stephen King adaptation to hit the screen in a long time, as the interactions between the heroic nerds and villainous […]