The Lighthouse Makes Madness, Isolation Fun Again by Joseph Shelton Director Robert Egger’s debut film, The Witch, was a home run right off the bat. It was the kind of movie that being called horror almost diminishes. Or, to look at it another way, it improves the whole genre by ...
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"It: Chapter Two: Proves that Sometimes More Is Less By Joseph Shelton In a post "Stranger Things" world, the average viewer has a lot of options for shows in which plucky tykes on bikes fight monsters and develop crushes on each other.  So "It: Chapter Two", coming two years after its preceding ...
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by Joseph Shelton The Clovehitch Killer could have been a sort of dumb comedy, and its tale of a 16 year old boy who begins to suspect that his father (the local Boy Scout troupe leader) is an infamous serial killer could have been exploited for cheap, if black-humored, laughs. But The Clovehitch ...
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“The Clovehitch Killer” is an Unexpectedly Clever Horror Film Debut "The Clovehitch Killer" could have been a sort of dumb comedy, and its tale of a 16 year old boy who begins to suspect that his father (the local Boy Scout troupe leader) is an infamous serial killer could have been exploited for ...
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