Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight

The “camp out in the woods” subgenre of horror is rich in content, if not in quality. For every Deliverance, The Burning, Southern Comfort, Rituals, and the compellingly underrated The Final Terror, there’s three or four dozen plus nubiles frolicking on a summer retreat flicks. At its nadir, there’s the ineptly hilarious Don’t Go inContinue reading “Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight”

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Replicants in Blade Runner exhibit a broader range of emotions than either Colin Farrell or Nicole Kidman in The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The duo, who portray married physicians, exchange blunted discourses like they’ve been popping psychotropics. Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) gives us boudoir foreplay that includes mock anesthesia, because…DOCTORS. It’s of course,Continue reading “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”