July 8, 2016 Reviews Hush (2016) Okay, here’s how we’re gonna do this: first the good, then the bad, then—in the interest of leaving on a positive note—the … Read More
December 5, 2015 Reviews The Final Girls (2015) The Final Girls is a rare film. It manages, in so many ways, to subvert the tropes of a Slasher film, all … Read More
August 4, 2015 Reviews The Collection (2012) I expected The Collector to be another exercise in torture-porn banality. Instead, it turned out to be rather fun and inventive, the … Read More
July 16, 2015 Reviews Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988) Okay, so, in this sequel to the classic Sleepaway Camp (1983), Angela Baker has spent years seeing psychiatrists, receiving electroshock therapy, popping … Read More
July 1, 2014 Reviews Sleepaway Camp (1983) The supposed “demise” of the Slasher genre occurred in 1986, according to Going to Pieces author Adam Rockoff. But if your … Read More
November 25, 2012 Reviews Psycho 2 (1983) Psycho 2 is far better than it has any right to be. Its strength is that it doesn’t try to match … Read More
October 29, 2012 Reviews Detention (2011) Detention is an impossibly difficult movie to review, but that is the only thing I disliked about it. It is an odd, … Read More
October 23, 2012 Reviews Don’t Let Him In (2011) Don’t Let Him In is just barely a Slasher film. In fact, it tries to be a little too much for its … Read More