A social justice screed cosplaying as a horror film, the Candyman remake is a colossal disappointment. Instead of talking like normal people talk, characters are mouthpieces for ideology: police bad, white people bad, gentrification bad. And that’s not subtext or metaphor, by the way. That’s all anyone prattles on about in this preachy mess ofContinue reading “Candyman 2021”
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End of the Line and public transit horror
A slew of movies have explored the subterranean horrors of subways – think Maniac, Midnight Meat Train, or the unusually quiet Berlin S-Bahn from Demons, all of which featured isolated travelers accosted by a creep. And speaking of which, the British horror Creep – not to be confused with the stellar found footage horror CreepContinue reading “End of the Line and public transit horror”
