Peter Safran

Disaster Movie (2008)

Disaster Movie (2008)
Rating: ½
Jul 4, 2010Parodies of Various Films
The movie parodies of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, which consist of crude, witless gags run over replication of scenes from films of the last twelve months, are painfully unfunny. This doesn't even spoof the disaster movie
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Meet the Spartans (2008)

Meet the Spartans (2008)
Rating: ½
Feb 3, 2008Parodies of Various Films
The painfully unfunny films of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are movie parodies, mostly a random assortment of films and celebrities of the last six months run over with crude and vulgar jokes. In this case, they take on parodying principally 300
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Mindscape (2013)

Mindscape (2013)
Rating: ★★
Mar 2, 2015Therapist Journeys Inside People's Memories
It would be safe to say that without Inception there would be no Mindscape, which involves people entering memories rather than dreams but is similar in many other ways. Where this fails is in having no interest in the sf potential of the idea beyond using it as springboard for a thriller plot
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The Starving Games (2013)

The Starving Games (2013)
Rating: ★
Dec 26, 2013The Hunger Games Parody
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, behind parody films like Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie, turn to The Hunger Games. There is all the usual inanity and celebrity mocking of their films, although they do seem to make a film that is only marginally less moronic than usual
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The Conjuring (2013)

The Conjuring (2013)
Rating: ★★½
Jul 19, 2013Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
Supposedly based on a true story. A film that feels written entirely by cliches taken from every other haunting and exorcism film, but you cannot deny that director James Wan generates a more than fair degree of spooky atmosphere
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Martyrs (2015)

Martyrs (2015)
Rating: ★
Feb 28, 2016Imprisonment and Torture
Martyrs was one of the most grimly disturbing films of the 2000s; this English-language remake, which waters everything down and rewrites the ending to have one of the girls bursting in to save the other with a shotgun counts as surely one of the great all-time cinematic bad ideas
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Summer Camp (2015)

Summer Camp (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 16, 2016Madness-Inducing Infection
Not a title that automatically suggests a horror film – and even if it does, you automatically think of the locale for a 1980s slasher film. What we get is a Spanish-made effort about a madness-inducing infection – a modestly and tightly contained effort that twists around on itself with considerable vigour
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The Atticus Institute (2015)

The Atticus Institute (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Oct 9, 2016Found Footage/Scientists Test a Possessed Woman
The rarity of a really good Found Footage film. Designed to look like lost footage from 1970s psychic experiments, this concerns a scientific team who discover they are dealing with a woman who is demonically possessed
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The Belko Experiment (2016)

The Belko Experiment (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 17, 2017Office Employees Trapped in a Deadly Elimination Game
Greg (Wolf Creek) McLean directs from a script by James Gunn. The Office by way of Battle Royale as 80 employees are locked in an office building with orders to eliminate one another
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Flatliners (2017)

Flatliners (2017)
Rating: ★
Dec 23, 2017Exploring the Afterlife/Haunting
Another remake we never asked for. Considering that this had the entire CGI revolution to conceive of the afterlife journey and merely has to top Joel Schumacher, it is amazing how dull and uninteresting this emerges as
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Annabelle: Creation (2017)

Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Rating: ★★½
Sep 24, 2017Sinister Doll
Audiences and critics alike hated the first Annabelle – I went into this prequel with little enthusiasm but ended up pleasantly surprised. All it takes is a change of director to David F. Sandberg who provides a series of genuinely eerie jumps
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The Nun (2018)

The Nun (2018)
Rating: ★
Jan 19, 2019Possessed Nun
Another spinoff from The Conjuring films. James Wan is one of the finest horror directors of the 2010s but has had difficulty imparting his skills to the directors of the films he has produced. This feels like a fairground haunted house show of tedious and repetitive pop-up shocks that runs free of any connection to a plot
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

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
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The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

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
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