Lost in Austen (2008)
Dec 31, 2008Modern Woman Trapped Inside Pride and Prejudice
A great tv mini-series where modern girl Jemima Rooper is transported back into Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice but disrupts the story with her modern ways
Elliot Cowan
Howl (2015)
Sep 2, 2016Werewolf on a Train
We had Snakes of a Plane; by the same token, this could have titled ‘Werewolf on a Train', although plays itself seriously the whole way. This is a model of effectiveness that delivers constant contained tension
Muse (2017)
May 18, 2018Man Haunted by Supernatural Muses
Jaume Balaguero has become one of the most promising of modern Spanish genre directors, principally on the basis of the [Rec] films. However, this supernatural mystery that resembles one of Dario Argento's Three Mothers films fails to quite come together
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
Oct 18, 2025Paranormal Investigators/“True Story”
Another supposedly true story from the casebook of the psychic investigator frauds Ed and Lorraine Warren. James Wan’s first two entries were eerily haunting; by now, the constant profusion of effect becomes overkill that produces no results at all