The rats are here for Stephen King’s 1922 trailer

September 22, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

It’s the year of the Stephen King adaptation, with both Gerald’s Game and 1922 following The Dark Tower and IT—I would imagine we’ll be seeing even more next year thanks to the amazing success of the latter. But before we start thinking about what’s to come, let’s focus on 1922, Netflix’s second King adaptation this […]

Fear your dreams in the new trailer for Mike Flanagan’s Before I Wake

July 8, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

After a crazy long delay—I first premiered the trailer over a year ago—Mike Flanagan’s Before I Wake will finally see the light of day, first at the Fantasia Film Festival and then in theaters on September 9th. It sucks that the delay doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence in Flanagan’s latest, because the film does have a […]

Oculus director brings nightmares to life in the Before I Wake trailer

March 13, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

Last year, Mike Flanagan’s Oculus was the rare breed of horror film that saw a wide release and didn’t suck. Trust me, that’s quite an accomplishment when films like Ouija, Annabelle and The Pyramid (to name a few) really stunk up the place. Flanagan, a truly exciting new genre director, returns to horror this summer […]

First Grizzly trailer hunts Thomas Jane

July 21, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

David Hackl’s killer bear film now has a trailer under the name of Grizzly, which is actually the third title the film has settled on. At first it was known as Red Machine then it went to Endangered before finally landing on what we see here. Why they continue to avoid the original title of Red Machine […]

First Endangered stills bring the Red Machine to life

December 19, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

A film I’ve been keeping a close eye on for quite some time now is David Hackl’s Endangered, which was previously known as the much better titled Red Machine. The film stars the totally underrated and always badass Thomas Jane who must fight a massive rogue grizzly, known as Red Machine, that wreaks havoc on a local […]

Somnia will bring a child’s nightmares to life

November 19, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

Somnia is a very interesting little horror-thriller from Mike Flanagan that explores something that the genre surprisingly rarely sees. The film being described as a haunting, emotionally absorbing horror film about an orphaned child whose dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps. The possibilities with a horror film with a set-up that explores nightmares are endless, and it […]