You can't get rid of The Babadook [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00OPUUFQU][/pullquote] "If it's in a word, or in a look, you can't get rid of the Babadook" utters Essie Davis' strained mother Amelia in the latest crowd-funded horror that marks the directorial debut of Jennifer Kent. Expanding … [Read more...]
Review: Oculus (2013)
Through the Looking Glass [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00J9C05NM][/pullquote] Mainstream horror films have had a bit of a lull recently. The normal plethora of over-edited horror trailer were conspicuously absent from the beginning of my screening of Oculus, and it's been nearly a year since we … [Read more...]
Review: The Borderlands (2014)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00C3L3VW8][/pullquote] The found footage horror genre has hit something of a creative cul-de-sac in recent years. The explosion in popularity because of its low cost to make and high returns at the box office have seen an explosion in the number being made, which has … [Read more...]
Review: The Quiet Ones (2014)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00JE8VO5Y][/pullquote] The latest from the revived Hammer horror brand The Quiet Ones delves into a 'Based on true events' theme that has become so popular in the genre in recent years. Following their biggest success to date, The Woman in Black they take another … [Read more...]
RIPD (2013) review by That Film Guy
Boston Police Departments Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) and his partner Bobby Hayes (Kevin Bacon) have recently found a horde of gold on a bust and decided to keep it. Nick has reservations and decides he's going to hand it in, but is killed in action on another bust. Discovering that there is an afterlife he is drafted into the RIPD (Rest in Peace Department) by Mildred Proctor … [Read more...]
Dark Skies (2013) review by That Film Guy
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Opening with these immortal words of Arthur C. Clarke, Dark Skies, the third film by Scott Stewart blends horror with supernatural science fiction. The fact that the popular computer game XCOM: Enemy Unknown used the exact same quote six months earlier should by no means … [Read more...]
Carrie (1976) review by That Film Guy
Stephen King is one of the most famous authors in horror and latterly fantasy fiction. His books and short stories have been adapted into a variety of Hollywood films including IT, The Shawshank Redemption, Pet Cemetery and The Green Mile. The first adaptation of his work came in 1976 when Brian De Palma has handed the reigns over King's first ever novel Carrie. A huge … [Read more...]
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) review by That Film Guy
As inevitable as Halloween itself is the next installment in a horror franchise that is cheap to make and keeps making good money. Previously the home of Final Destination or Saw, the found footage juggernaut of Paranormal Activity rolls through its fourth entry. Made for a budget of around $5m it found itself in profit after its opening night. Within the chronology of the … [Read more...]
The Sixth Sense (1999) review by That Film Guy
Horror films and the Oscars don't really go hand-in-hand, which may explain why, as of 2012, only four of the genre have ever been nominated in the Best Film category. One of those is M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. Released in 1999, The Sixth Sense became an unexpected commercial smash hit recouping over $670m at the box office from its budget of $40m. It earnt an Oscar … [Read more...]
Sinister (2012) review by That Film Guy
True crime novelist Ellison Osbourne (Ethan Hawke) has made a career out of writing about missing children and is trying to recreate the success of his first book. He decides to move his family to the site of a grisly murder that saw four members of a family hanged from a tree. During the move he discovers a box in the attic which houses a series of super 8 reels of film and a … [Read more...]