Mama (2013)
Jan 14, 2013Two Feral Children and Ghostly Companion
A Guillermo Del Toro produced ghost story that fails to go anywhere. The promise of the film's trailer falls apart in the hands of a novice director who blows all of his scares
Javier Botet
Witching and Bitching (2013)
Sep 12, 2014Town of Witches Comedy
Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia makes what is essentially a comedy version of From Dusk Till Dawn albeit with witches instead of vampires. This has one of the funniest openings I've seen in some time but thereafter dissipates into broadly farcical and overlong runnings around
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Jun 19, 2016Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
If you want a genuinely scary spook show that will make you jump out of your seat, you would not go wrong with this. On the other hand, the Conjuring films with their claims to true stories of peddle superstition and fabricate most of their so-called facts
Mara (2018)
Oct 26, 2020Sleep Paralysis Demon
Olga Kurylenko deals with a demon that appears to those affected by sleep paralysis. Another sleep paralysis horror film that only tepidly dips into the subject
Polaroid (2019)
Feb 14, 2023Cursed Camera
Horror film about a cursed Polaroid camera that kills everybody that appears in one of its photos
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Sep 16, 2023Vampire Aboard a Ship Voyage
One of a spate of recent films that adapt characters or sections from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this concerns the doomed ship voyage aboard which Dracula travels to England