You know I love a horror franchise, and with is being Halloween, I wanted to bring you a special post. Just for you guys, I watched every Halloween film from 1978 til 2018, and you can't find out all about it here. Oddly enough, until a few years back, I hadn't actually seen these films,… Continue reading Horror Franchise: Halloween (1978 – 2022)
Starring: Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd Director: Jim Wynorski A group of rad teens who work in a mall decide to stay late and party in the store after closing. But what they didn't count on was the state-of-the-art robot security system patrolling the building, a robot security that malfunctions and goes on a… Continue reading Hallowe’en Flicks: Chopping Mall (1986)
Starring: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Madison Iseman, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Caleel Harris, Ken Jeong, Jack Black Director: Ari Sandel Just in time for Halloween, the film adaptation based on RL Stine's classic book series Goosebumps returns for a sequel. Set at Halloween, the film follows two best friends who uncover a strange ventriloquists dummy hidden in an… Continue reading Goosebumps 2 (2018)
Starring: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappucino Director: Kevin Phillips When an accident leads to a death, two teen best friends cover it up and find themselves torn apart by paranoia and guilt. This film is really enigmatic. It's a film that you can get to the end of and question what it all means.… Continue reading Super Dark Times (2017)
Olivia and Markie have been best friends since high school. Now at university together, they head off for their last Spring Break in Mexico with a group of their closest friends. At a bar on the last night of their holiday, Olivia lets a cute guy buy her a drink and convinces her friends to head off with him to a spooky house to have a few last drinks. When they end up playing a game of Truth Or Dare, the friends soon find that they’ve started something they can’t finish. Something evil within the game won’t let them stop playing. If they refuse to play, they die, if they choose “dare” they may not survive, and if they choose truth, their lives might be destroyed by the secrets they hide from each other.
The idea that a game could be haunted isn’t new, but one that doesn’t have a…
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Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillen, Kevin Hart, Jack Black Director: Jake Kasdan Jumanji, the evil board game that sucks people in and traps them or unleashes jungle creatures into the homes of the players has evolved. Since no one plays board games, it hides itself as a computer console, and tricks four teens in detention… Continue reading Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017)
Starring: John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon Director: Kay Cannon In suburban America, John Cena, Leslie Mann and Ike Barinholtz star as the parents of three teen girls who are best friends and who have grown up together. On the night of their prom, the parents discover that the… Continue reading Preview: Blockers (2018)
Let's Get Stuck Into... is a podcast from ScreenMayhem.com which focuses on sets of five films from different influential film personalities and masters of cinema. It's a really fascinating and fun podcast, and I had a really great time recording this one, about Studio Ghibli and the warm and mysterious story of When Marnie Was… Continue reading Podcast: Studio Ghibli and When Marnie Was There on ScreenMayhem.com
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Beanie Feldstein, Lucas Hedges Director: Greta Gerwig In 2002, a teen (Ronan) who prefers to be called Lady Bird is in the last year of High School, and struggling with her identity and her future. While she is highly creative and intelligent, she doesn't have the best grades,… Continue reading Lady Bird (2017)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Barbara Loden Director: Elia Kazan Kansas, 1928. Deanie (Wood) and Bud (Beatty) are two teens madly in love. He's a football champ and she's a darling good girl, and they plan on marrying each other some day. But outside pressures start to break in. First of all, social… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Splendor In The Grass (1961)
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