******UNSETTLING SPOILERS!****** Made on a sub-shoestring budget between $750,000 (yes, thousand) and $1 million, the Universal-Blumhouse distributed “Obsession” debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and was a huge hit. When it was released in the United States this past March, it did incredible business, making over 400 times its production budget, and becoming…
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“The Exorcist: Believer” (2023) is another so-so sequel that won’t turn many heads…
*****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!***** 1973: “There Is Only One” For context, I was all of seven years old (!) when I first saw the late William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” theatrically in early 1974, and yes, I was waaaay too young, but it’s okay, because I was raised by wolves. Even as a young monster movie fan at…
“Halloween Ends” (2022) sees the franchise taking an overdue dirt nap…
*****SPOOKY SPOILERS!!***** Halloween Wanes. In 1978, writer/director/musician John Carpenter (“Assault on Precinct 13”) unleashed his micro-budget thriller “Halloween” into theaters, and the movie became a runaway hit. I still remember seeing another movie at a multiplex around that time, and hearing screams from the “Halloween” screening in the next auditorium. I would eventually see “Halloween”…
“The Invisible Man” (2020) shifts focus from predator to prey…
Universal Pictures, the studio which birthed the famous “Universal Monster” series of the 1930s through the 1950s (Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Wolf-Man, and the Creature From The Black Lagoon) has been struggling to rekindle their famed horror movie embers for decades, with mixed results; from 1999’s “The Mummy” to…well, Tom Cruise’s…