Get Out can’t get out of its own way, stumbling from outstanding in-group out-group frights to Phantasm body-snatcher silliness. With an opener depicting upper-crust suburbia as terrifyingly as the original Halloween, a random African American man is suddenly murdered walking through a gated community. The tension is agonizing, compounded by teeth-chattering musical accompaniment. Shifting gearsContinue reading “Get Out”
Category Archives: Horror
Witchboard
Another fashion crime vomited up by the 80s, Witchboard is the brainchild of Kevin S. Tenney, who went on to do the similarly wacky, though better-crafted, Night of the Demons. We begin at a party,and we get some horror right off the bat: the hair, the fringe jackets, and the dancing. Then there’s a drunkenContinue reading “Witchboard”
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