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Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective novel Hallowe’en Party is re-titled, reworked and transposed from England to Venice as the third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films, the 2023 mystery crime drama A Haunting in Venice. Agatha […]
The 1951 black and white romantic crime drama My Forbidden Past stars Ava Gardner as lady with a secret Barbara Beaurevelle, who plots heartless revenge on Dr Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum). Director Robert Stevenson’s 1951 […]
Director Gregory Plotkin’s Halloween-style slasher movie Hell Fest finds a generic masked serial killer terrorising a group of fairly dim friends at a horror-themed amusement park for no particular reason. Alas the screenplay by Seth M Sherwood, Blair […]
Co-writer/ director David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween reboot is good, intense, suspenseful and scary, a solid horror thriller, but no knockout. It has no new story to tell – how could it? – but it […]
Co-writer/ director Shane Black’s The Predator is just no good, telling a plodding, uninvolving new story boringly set in the streets of small-town suburbia, with uninteresting, underdeveloped characters, a motley crew of unfascinating actors, sadistic violence, […]
Writer-director Victor Salva’s first feature Clownhouse is a creepy 1989 American slasher horror film with a fairly high body count. Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh and Sam Rockwell (in his film debut) play Casey and his older brothers Geoffrey […]
Co-writer/ director Dominique Othenin-Girard’s 1989 fifth episode in the long-running slasher franchise finds the masked maniac Michael Myers back on the rampage yet again in what is easily the worst installment so far. Michael Jacobs’s […]