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Annabelle (2014) Review: The Most Profitable Empty Room in Horror
Annabelle (2014) Review: The Most Profitable Empty Room in Horror Years ago I spent an afternoon in interior Texas with a Catholic priest who was doing the work a psychiatrist would have done, in a town that had no psychiatrist. He was clear-eyed about the arrangement — clear about the people he hadn’t been able…
The Conjuring: Last Rites Is Exactly What You’d Expect, and That’s the Problem
The Conjuring: Last Rites Is Exactly What You’d Expect, and That’s the Problem There’s a moment in The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) that almost made me forgive the franchise. It happens in 1964, before the title card, before any of the Smurl family machinery starts grinding. Lorraine Warren is alone in a dark room with…
Get Out (2017) Review: Nobody Believes the Man Who Sees It Coming
Get Out (2017) opens with a man walking alone at night, clocking danger from the posture before he can say why — and it never lets that feeling go. I once shared a journalism-school apartment in Austin with a guy named Peter — the kind who walked into a bar and left with three new…
The Conjuring 2 Review: James Wan Built a Beautiful Lie, and I Believed It Anyway
There’s a scene in The Conjuring 2 where Ed Warren picks up a guitar in a freezing council house in Enfield, north London, and sings Elvis to a family that has not slept properly in months. The children, who have spent the film being terrorized, start to smile. Lorraine watches her husband from across the…
The Conjuring (2013) Review: The Haunted House That Means It
James Wan made The Conjuring (2013) with $20 million, a period setting, and a camera that holds its position past the point where genre discipline usually breaks. The result is the best mainstream horror film of its decade — a sentence I write without equivocation, because equivocation belongs in the films that made it necessary.…
Is Obsession (2026) Worth Watching? An Honest Guide
Whether Obsession (2026) is worth watching — the short answer is yes. The useful part is what “yes” comes attached to — because Obsession (2026, dir. Curry Barker) nearly received an NC-17 rating, runs on body horror and moral discomfort, and whose marketing makes it look approximately thirty percent lighter than what it actually is.…
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Review — The Horror Film That Never Tells You It’s a Horror Film
Director: Roman Polanski | Year: 1968 | Runtime: 136 min | Studio: Paramount / William Castle Roman Polanski received a call from producer Robert Evans in 1966 with an offer: adapt Ira Levin’s not-yet-published manuscript for Paramount. He read it in one sitting, called back the same day, and began writing the screenplay before the…
Midsommar Review: Ari Aster Made a Breakup Movie. Then Set It on Fire.
Director: Ari Aster / Year: 2019 / Runtime: 147 min (Theatrical) / Studio: A24 / Square Peg / B-Reel Films This Midsommar review has taken me a long time to write. The problem was never what to say, but how to say it without sounding like someone who just got out of a three-year relationship…
Obsession 2026 Is the Horror Film That Contaminates You. In the Best Way Possible.
There’s a scene in Obsession 2026 where the theater I was sitting in didn’t go quiet. It went silent. The kind of silence where you’re suddenly aware of the person next to you breathing — aware of yourself breathing. A young woman on screen was doing something so desperately wrong, so terrifyingly logical given everything…
Hereditary (2018) Review — A Family Autopsy Disguised as a Horror Film
Hereditary (2018) Review — A Family Autopsy Disguised as a Horror Film Director: Ari Aster | Year: 2018 | Runtime: 127 min | Studio: A24 Let me set the scene. It’s late 2018. I’m sitting in a nearly empty theater in Austin, a warm Shiner Bock in my jacket pocket that I absolutely did not…
