Streaming Reviews

2002’s 28 DAYS LATER was a small but surprisingly visceral horror movie with a strong cult following and often credited with reinventing the zombie movie genre for the new millennium. Its following was strong enough to spawn a sequel 28 WEEKS LATER in 2007, a graphic novel, and a well regarded comic book series that lasted 24 issues till 2011. And after that, complete silence. Nothing was moving in the franchise other than false starts over rights issues and rumors.  And then in 2024, the third installment 28 YEARS LATER was announced, eventually debuting in 2025. After a frightful opening sequence recapping the start of the rage virus (the infection that turns people into screeching savages) 28 YEARS LATER follows a boy named Spike who lives in a community on a small tidal island off the Scottish coast.  Britain is quarantined from the rest of the world and The community has reverted to a type of post apocalyptic medieval villager society with a strict isolationist stand. Sp...

PREDATOR BADLANDS is just what the hunter ordered to breathe new life into a franchise whose movies had, frankly, gotten stale. There is only so many times you can rehash the same formula of badass modern warriors being hunted by a superior alien enemy, the titular Predator, and one of said warriors has to reconnect with unorthodox traditional methods to fight back.  This movie flips the perspective and places a Predator as our protagonist. It opens on the homeworld of the Yautja, the species name of the Predators, as we bear witness to the events that land our protagonist Dek (played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) on the planet Genna. Genna is a death world. Its plants and animals all highly dangerous and regard Dek as prey. Fighting for survival against the savage flora and fauna, Dek crosses path with a damaged female synthetic human named Thia (played by Elle Fanning). Or at least her upper half.  Dek intends to kill a monster known as the Kalisk in order to restore h...

Full admission: I have never played the game so I cannot comment on how true it is to the source material. What I can comment on was how much I enjoyed this movie despite hearing only negative things about it. Until Dawn tries to straddle that genre line between horror and comedy that was so masterfully done by Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness.  We follow a group of friends, Clover, her ex-boyfriend Max, her pals Nina and Megan, and Nina's boyfriend, Abe. They are retracing the footsteps of Clover’s sister Melanie who had gone missing. They take shelter from a freak storm at a visitor centre in Glore Valley, an old mining town that fell victim to an earthquake in the past and is now a nature reserve.  While waiting out the storm, they find a notice board with the faces of various missing people and a guest book with their names, including Melanie. And that’s when strange things start to happen. The storm takes on a life of its own to prevent them from leaving, a giant beast ...

The tale of Dracula has captivated horror fans for decades and 2023 gave us not one but two new spins of that tale: the drama comedy Renfield, and the suspense horror movie Last Voyage of the Demeter. This review is for the latter which takes a single chapter from the original Dracula novel, originally told as a series of Captain’s log entries, and develops it into a fearsome survival story against a powerful demonic foe.  Our story begins with a doctor, Clemens, joining the crew of the ship Demeter, heading from Bulgaria to England. The Captain, Eliot, has been contracted to transport multiple crates to London. With him are his young grandson Toby, quartermaster Wojchek, and a crew picked out from the port.  Their uneventful journey takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious stowaway, Anna, is discovered in one of the crates. She has strange bite marks on her and the crew sees her as a bad omen. Unrest turns to trouble when it becomes clear something else had emerged from a...