Category Archives: Horror

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

The humans holed up in a mall in Dawn of the Dead aren’t there for door-crasher specials, but to save humanity. George Romero’s vision from his indelible 1979 classic remains intact even as limbs slough off in this better- than-it-has-any-right-to-be 2004 remake. Canada’s sweetheart Sarah Polley (pace, Rachel McAdams) plays Ana, a suburbanite with aContinue reading “Dawn of the Dead (2004)”

Pernicious

“So this is Thailand…” Three nubile American girls arrive in Siam to “teach kids the alphabet,” but this isn’t typical naïve traveler set upon by nasty foreigners territory — it takes a hard left. But that doesn’t mean it’s any good or that we’ve arrived at the right destination. Pernicious is dumbly titled (was Deleterious already taken?) but smartly circumventsContinue reading “Pernicious”