Professional editor of children's cartoons that loves horror. Dabbles in haunts, immersive theater.
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The Monkey 2025
A horror-comedy that manages to fail at comedy and at horror.
The horror is not presented suspensefully and the comedy usually plays as cringe-worthy moments of awkwardness between the characters.The tone fluctuates wildly from scene to scene - comic to dramatic to horrific to surprisingly gory. Any suspense or forward momentum is usually brought to a screeching halt every time the movie tries to explore the dynamics of a traumatized father and the nonexistent relationship to his son. (It’s…
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The Substance 2024
An amazingly energetic sci-fi body horror special effects roller-coaster ride that loses its way by the end... but what a ride!
Writer/Director Coralie Fargeat delivers a beautiful film using bold colors and precise framing to highlight exactly what she wants the viewer to focus on. Much of the time... it's the human body.
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley are both amazing in their roles portraying women at very different points in their lives. The presence of mirrors and posters in…
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Salem's Lot 2024
A few striking visuals cannot save this from being an overall disappointment. Another "remake" that seems to have no reason to exist.
To make this fit into an acceptable running time, I guess, there is almost NO character development or backstory provided for any characters. For some weird reason, this version completely trivializes the Straker character and turns him into a delivery person for Barlow rather than a partner. When Barlow appears, the character design is a nice tribute to…
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Cemetery Man 1994
Disturbing, nonsensical, absurd, funny, beautiful, melancholy, sexy, philosophical and deeply romantic... this is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece defying any attempt to define its genre. The entire cast offers up strong performances perfectly stylized to the crazy tone of the film. (Particularly Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro and Anna Falchi)
Here is a zombie film where the undead are catalysts for rambling examinations on the meaning of life, love and finding comfort in connection to others.
The film feels upbeat but conjures intense…
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