On paper Thinner seems set up for success. It is based on a Stephen King novel, is directed by Fright Night‘s Tom Holland, and written by Holland with Beetlejuice‘s Michael McDowell. As anyone who has ever failed at making dinner will tell you … Continue reading REVIEW: Thinner (1996)
Alcoholic loner Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) lives an itinerant life, still haunted by the ghosts that killed his father and traumatised him as a child. Even after settling into a sense of normality Dan is dragged back into danger when … Continue reading REVIEW: Doctor Sleep (2019)
Twenty-seven years after a group of children ventured into the sewers of Derry, Maine, to defeat a mysterious shapeshifting killer, a new spate of murders reveals that what they thought was dead has returned: and a promise to come home … Continue reading REVIEW: It: Chapter Two (2019)
Siblings Becky (Laysla De Oliviera) and Cal (Avery Whitted) stop their car beside a thick cornfield, and hear a young boy’s plaintive cries for help. They enter the field to lead the boy out, only to get lost themselves – … Continue reading REVIEW: In the Tall Grass (2019)
A boy named Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) is struck by constant dreams of a dark tower under attack, a gunslinger named Roland, and a man dressed in black. When his visions turn out to be true, he finds himself hunted … Continue reading REVIEW: The Dark Tower (2017)
Wilfred “Wilf” James (Thomas Jane) is a Nebraska farmer, living with his estranged wife Arlette (Molly Parker) and teenage son Henry (Dylan Schmid). When Arlette inherits a patch of land, she announces a plan to sell it and to open … Continue reading REVIEW: 1922 (2017)
Dr Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two children move from Boston to rural Maine in the hope of finding a quieter, more easy-going lifestyle. When they find a century-old pet cemetary near the back … Continue reading REVIEW: Pet Sematary (2019)
In the small American town of Derry, a young boy named Georgie Denbrough (Jackson Robert Scott) is dragged into a storm drain by a mysterious creature that introduces itself as “Pennywise the Dancing Clown”. His disappearance reveals a long, horrifying … Continue reading REVIEW: It (2017)
An eerie mist descends upon a quiet Maine town. Before long it is discovered that the mist is populated with nightmarish monsters, trapping a group of townspeople inside their local supermarket. Once trapped inside, however, it turns out that the … Continue reading “As a species we’re fundamentally insane.” | The Mist (2007)
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