Really Awful Movies

Candyman

Candyman is a film that puts the “urban” into urban legend, with a suave eponymous antagonist sporting of all things, a hook for a hand laying waste to occupants of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago. Horror above all else, prioritizes setting over character investment – or at least, can get away with having doneContinue reading “Candyman”

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

This is the second time that Elisa Lam’s name has come up on this site. The first was when we reviewed Hunter, a hilariously inept 2015 action movie with conspicuously overdubbed sax playing and a protagonist with a protruding gut, but which referenced Lam’s horrifying death at the Cecil Hotel. Now, Crime Scene: The VanishingContinue reading “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel”