I did Lou Diamond Phillips, and somewhere in Robert Resnikoff’s The First Power is a solid supernatural police thriller. But everything in it is painfully familiar, though some of it, like the visions characters have are strongly created. Phillips is Russell Logan a Los Angeles homicide cop who has been tracking a serial murderer christened…
Tag: menace
Stargate SG-1 (2002) – Menace, and The Sentinel
SG-1 discovers an deactivated android, Reese (Danielle Nicolet) on a planet whose civilization has been destroyed. She may have the key to it, if Daniel (Michael Shanks) and Carter (Amanda Tapping) can only find a way to get answers from her. On the planet, O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Teal’c (Christopher Judge) may already have…
When Evil Lurks (2023) – Demian Rugna
The Spanish language film, When Evil Lurks, from Argentina, has found its way into my favourite horror films along with Late Night with the Devil. It’s creepy, has some legitimate scares, and a real sense of menace. Two brothers, Pedro (Ezequiel Rodriguez) and Jimi (Demian Salomon), find themselves confronting true evil when they encounter a…
Halloween 4: The Return of Micheal Myers (1988) – Dwight H. Little
Apparently both Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) and Micheal Myers (George P. Wilbur – who doesn’t have the same sense of menace) survived the explosive events of Halloween II, and Halloween, despite the way both films ended, both characters seem to keep coming back. Following the franchise stumble of Halloween III, though it has gone on…
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) – Anthony Hickox
Despite having his name listed as Executive Producer, I don’t think horrormeister Clive Barker had much to do with the third installment of the Hellraiser series. After the bloody and brilliantly constructed first two films, this one feels like it went right off the rails and didn’t quite understand why the first two films worked…
Gwendy’s Final Task (2022) – Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
Stephen King pairs up for a second time with Richard Chizmar to deliver the final book in the Gwendy trilogy. The book solidly ties itself into The Dark Tower universe as Gwendy now a junior senator, and about to be an astronaut because once again, the enigmatic Mr. Farris has shown up with the increasingly…
The Hole in the Ground (2019) – Lee Cronin
The Irish horror film, The Hole in the Ground, was circling on my radar for awhile, so I was curious to see what I thought of it when I finally had a chance to see it. I can see why some people like it, and others didn’t care for it. The film works best when…
Midsommar (2019) – Ari Aster
Writer/director Ari Aster’s follow-up to his unnerving horror film, Hereditary, is another menacing, and ominous story, Midsommar. Florence Pugh stars as Dani, a traumatised young woman, who is dealing with personal grief, and a crumbling love life, when she learns that her boyfriend, Christian (Jack Reynor) and a number of his buddies, some are doing…
The Day She Died (2021)- S.M. Freedman
Dundurn Press delivers S.M. Freedman’s thriller, The Day She Died, to my summer reading pile, and it is a gut punch of a book, exploring dark secrets, while exploring the concept of forgiveness of oneself. It’s a captivating read that pulls you in, and drags you along at full-throttle on a white knuckle ride that…
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) – John Carl Buechler
Jason Vorhees (Kane Hodder slips on the mask this time out) as the masked killer is resurrected from the depths of Crystal Lake to wreak havoc on a whole new group of twenty-somethings. But this time around he may be confronting a Final Girl unlike any other, and one who is responsible for his return…
The Mind Reels 