Steve Coulter Archives

Insidious Chapter 2 (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 13, 2013Haunting/Possession

James Wan proves himself one of the finest directors in the horror genre with this sequel to his 2010 film. The plot is trimmed to deliver an effective scare show and Wan again produces a series of eerie and unworldly jumps

Director: James Wan

Actors: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Steve Coulter, …

Category: Horror

13 September 201321 April 2026 by Roog

Insidious Chapter 3 (2015)

Rating: ★★

Jun 6, 2015Haunting/Possession

This doesn't have James Wan directing and is a far less interesting ghost story before doing a repeat venture into the beyond. On the plus side, incoming director Leigh Whannell does generate a fair degree of eerie tension

Director: Leigh Whannell

Actors: Lin Shaye, Stefanie Scott, Dermot Mulroney, Angus Sampson, …

Category: Horror

6 June 201521 April 2026 by Roog

Hangman (2017)

Rating: ★

Jan 8, 2018Serial Killer Thriller

A dreary revival of the 1990s serial killer thriller. The surprise for a work that has no ambition beyond cable filler is that it has attracted a name like Al Pacino who mugs and showboats through the worst performance of his career

Director: Johnny Martin

Actors: Al Pacino, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow, Sarah Shahi, …

Category: Horror

8 January 201810 March 2026 by Roog

The Hunt (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 27, 2020Human Bloodsports/Liberals Hunt Conservatives

Controversial variant on the human bloodsports plot of The Most Dangerous Game but where liberals hunt conservatives. A film with a darkly satiric bite that sets out to offend people on both sides of the political fence

Director: Craig Zobel

Actors: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Wayne Duvall, Ike Barinholtz, …

Category: Horror

27 March 20206 April 2026 by Roog

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Rating: ★★

Jun 12, 2021Possession/“True Story”

The third of the Conjuring films, this lacks the presence of James Wan in the director’s seat while peddling an even more highly dubious Based on a True story claim regarding a demonic possession

Director: Michael Chaves

Actors: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, …

Category: Horror

12 June 202115 October 2025 by Roog

5-25-77 (2022)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 3, 2023Filmmakers Autobiography

Forget The Fabelmans, this is a superlative autobiography of a filmmaker and the influence Star Wars had on his life. Neck-deep in fannish enthusiasm for the genre and the love of Super 8 filmmaking

Director: Patrick Read Johnson

Actors: John Francis Daley, Colleen Camp, Austin Pendleton, Steve Coulter, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 March 202321 October 2025 by Roog

We Have a Ghost (2023)

Rating: ★★

Mar 10, 2023Ghost Comedy

Christopher Landon, director of Happy Death Day and Freaky, makes a comedy about a family who turn the ghost in their house into a viral sensation

Director: Christopher Landon

Actors: David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Jahi Winston, Isabella Russo, …

Category: Fantasy

10 March 202316 January 2024 by Roog

Insidious: The Red Door (2023)

Rating: ★★

Aug 12, 2023Haunting/Astral Projection

The fifth film in the Insidious series. This time Patrick Wilson returns to the franchise and takes the director’s chair, showing he has been taking some lessons from James Wan

Director: Patrick Wilson

Actors: Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Sinclair Daniel, …

Category: Horror

12 August 20238 February 2024 by Roog

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

Rating: ★

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

Director: Michael Chaves

Actors: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy, …

Category: Horror

18 October 202524 April 2026 by Roog