Saw VI (2009)

Saw VI (2009)
Rating: ★★
Nov 2, 2009Killer's Sadistic Games
Sixth time around and the backstory is starting to become so excessively complicated it is hard to follow what is going on. All the gruesome torturings now seem passe, although this does redeem itself somewhat in making a few black digs at the medical health industry

The Ward (2010)

The Ward (2010)
Rating: ★★
Jun 16, 2011Haunted Asylum
John Carpenter returned to the director's chair after more than a decade but failed to light the world on fire. Carpenter makes what you could call a ghost story version of Girl, Interrupted. The scares are tame and the film is hamstrung by an improbable M. Night Shyamalan twist ending

House at the End of the Street (2012)

House at the End of the Street (2012)
Rating: ★★
Jan 6, 2013Psycho-Thriller/Crazed Family Member in the Cellar
Psycho-thriller that plays out like a creaky old deranged relative in the cellar film retooled as a teen romance until an absurd mid-film conceptual twist irredeemably kills the film off

We Need to Do Something (2021)

We Need to Do Something (2021)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 18, 2024Family Trapped in a Bathroom During a Mysterious Catastrophe
A horror film made as an allegory for Covid with a family trapped inside a bathroom without supplies as a mysterious catastrophe happens outside their door

The Girl in the Trunk (2024)

The Girl in the Trunk (2024)
Rating:
Feb 1, 2026Girl Imprisoned in a Car Trunk
A thriller that comes with an identical premise to the earlier Trunk about a girl who is abducted and locked inside the trunk of a car from where she tries to affect an escape from her abductor