Reviewed by Mick LaSalle
Annabelle is a doll, but she is not Chucky. She is not possessed by an evil spirit. Rather, she is a powerful, cursed object that attracts evil spirits. Destroying her would do no good and might do harm. No, the only thing to be done with an object like this doll is keep her locked up in a cabinet — forever.
All this is made clear in the first minute of “Annabelle Comes Home,” the latest…
Reviewed by Mick LaSalle
The “Conjuring” series has taken horror out of the secular universe — where it has been mired for the last two generations — and has returned it to a world of metaphysical good and evil. In doing so, it has given horror back its power.
This isn’t to say that all the “Conjuring” movies have been good. But the general direction of the series is sound, and “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” is…
Reviewed by Mick LaSalle
Every horror franchise has its particularly awful killer, who operates out of a small town and targets the young and sexually active. Most horror franchises, at least for a time, have their random lucky person, always female, who is always the target but never is killed. But only Wes Craven's "Scream" series has something extra: It takes place in its own world but in our world, too, one in which young people know every horror movie…
Reviewed by Mick LaSalle
Anybody who talks about True Romance has to start with the writing. It's dazzling. In scene after scene, Tarantino surprises the audience even while coming up with dialogue that rings much more true than anything you could have anticipated.
