Vicarious celluloid through a mysterious trance summoned by none other than Pierce Brosnan and his horrific French method acting serving as the catalyst for our voyage into neurotic hell. Ted Nugent’s eccentric riffs tear through two psyches split and spliced over sounds parallel to giallo mayhem while visual likeliness of a lost Nightmare film without the slasher figure to assign coherence to, leaving this in a strange, atmospheric turmoil that’s wholly absorbing—it’s disorienting as a result, more out of the…

The delusional resident freak situated right between Martin and American Psycho, where vampirism trickles into the shattering brain of a corporate man’s overzealous demeanor just aching to snap—all it takes is the sight of love, and maybe a couple of fangs. Fascinating on behalf of the renowned Cage performance (and it’s utterly unbelievable how pliable he is here), yes, but this far transpires any so-bad-it’s-good renderings for an actually invigorating film detailing total psychic fallout and the contortionist’s clothes a…

A stunning showcase for animation’s boundless potential, utilized here to revamp and prolong the Yautja’s filmic lifespan and the neon-green blood that inhabits it with vigor and brutality. We’re given three rounds to duke it out with each era’s given assassin of coinciding form, exploring myth and history in the blink of a black-and-bruised eye—Trachtenberg’s move towards a new language while progressing the franchise and incorporating his previous threads of Prey is ambitious, and the payoff is phenomenal, lowering the…

whew, what a mess. Barbarian strikes various interesting conversations more than capable of melding to horror in rewarding, visceral, and mentally/emotionally expressive ways: redlining, gentrification, moral vacuity, misogyny, and rotten byproducts of Reagan in suburbia into abandonment, and, it even assigns the presence of a hyper-violent figure as a ghastly thespian for the centerpiece of it all—yet, never once do any of these talking points mean anything, as genre tropes swallow the film whole within minutes, and regurgitate vignettes of forgettable…

such a sweet spot in horror, not only as a remarkable sequel that comes close to suring its original, but as one that properly turns its villainous icon into an allegory for mental illnesses that fall on deaf ears while simultaneously upping the nightmare realm through phenomenal practical effects and a keen eye for empowering survivors without losing itself to fantastical cheese—quite the mouthful, and quite the feat. Dream Warriors deeply defines its characters and thus enhances the familiar slumberscape while…