Posts Tagged ‘Saw’
Film Review – Insidious: The Red Door
With Insidious: The Red Door (2023), the Insidious franchise has now reached its fifth installment. This is surprising, given that it never quite got off its feet since the 2010 original. While I’m not the biggest fan of that first film, admittedly, director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell did catch lightning in…
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Film Review – Choose or Die
Choose or Die (2022) wears its influences so blatantly on its sleeve that it basically does the cinematic version of a cover song. It’s so invested in the horror films of the 1980s and ‘90s that it suffers from an identity crisis. We see this early…
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Film Review – Malignant
Malignant (2021) is the kind of horror flick tailor made for the midnight-movie crowds. With its campy tone, over the top body horror, and ridiculous story, it exudes the kind of “no holding back” attitude that many fans of the genre will gleefully embrace. There…
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Film Review – Escape Room
Escape rooms are a lot of fun. You and your friends are placed inside of a room – usually decorated with a specific theme – and try to solve a number of puzzles or retrieve a key that will eventually help you to “escape” within…
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Film Interview – Leigh Whannell – Upgrade
I was given a chance to speak with writer and director Leigh Whannell about his new film, Upgrade, while he was on a press tour in Dallas, Texas. We touched on the filming effects for Stem, one of the themes of the film, a change…
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SXSW Interview – Tobin Bell & Linas Phillips – Manson Family Vacation
Spencer interviews actors Tobin Bell and Linas Phillips from the dramedy Manson Family Vacation at SXSW 2015.
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Film Review – Furious 7
The Fast & Furious series is one of those rare franchises that have actually improved the further it goes. Fourteen years have passed since the first, and only in the last few years has it really found its stride. A lot of that has to…
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Film Review – Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 2 comes off of an original film that, on one hand, had one of the strongest opening halves of a horror film in recent memory, but which also lost a fair amount of steam and its audience’s enthusiasm as it struggled to the…
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