ScreamFish: Crimson Peak: Del Toro Digs Into Family

I don’t usually do horror, but when I do … it’s Guillermo del Toro. Not all directors hit it out of the park for me every time, but del Toro does. While I didn’t?love?Hellboy, it was engaging;?Pacific Rim?and?Pan’s Labyrinth?are exquisitely visualized tales that would make James Cameron blush. And then, there’s?Crimson Peak. Centered around Edith…

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Poltergeist–Evil (Up) Roots

Anyone following the latest round of Presidential endorsements can attest: politics makes strange bedfellows. Apparently, so does filmmaking (think Clint Eastwood/Jim Carrey in The Deadpool, director Leonard Nimoy/Ted Danson, Tom Selleck/Steve Guttenberg in Three Men and a Baby, Wes Anderson and anyone in anything). But such funky pairings aren’t limited to action flicks or rom-coms;…

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Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse: No Human Left Behind

The coming-of-age high school comedy gets mashed up with the zombie onslaught in Christopher B. Landon’s (Paranormal Activity,?Disturbia) latest horror flick. Though,?in?Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse, the zombies are just the backdrop for an overarching story about three friends who must fight through their own impulses and mistakes to discover that … scouting is cool….

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ScreamFish: Black Christmas

Dear Santa, Can you please bring us more slashers as good as Black Christmas (no, not the shoddy remake from 2006; we’re referring to the 1974 original)?? Because someone or something needs to remind Hollywood that horror films are allowed to have talented legitimate actors, compelling scripts and genuinely effective–yet relatively gore-less–scares. Sure, it’s just…

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