In 2009, Frank Sabatella directed his first feature--Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet. It's an exploitation heavy slasher about college students who unwittingly summon the ghost of a maddened murderess searching for the daughter she ...
Why do we watch movies or read books? Stories are often a form of entertainment, capable of inspiring, enlightening us, , instilling joy, or... terror. There's little you can't do with an open mind and a blank sheet of paper (or a laptop an...
Oh, what could have been. The Dark Universe seemed like such a... thing. Yes, it was definitely a thing. A thing that was going to happening until it, of course, did not happen thank to The Mummy getting absolutely no one excited abou...
It's pretty clear by now that despite a solid international box office Godzilla: King of Monsters didn't perform nearly as well as Legendary and Warner Bros. was hoping. I'm sure the studio saw a burgeoning cinematic universe after God...
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is by far the most fun you are going to be able to have at the movies this summer! Why? Because it is basically a battle royale of monsters. It is nonsense, and ridiculous and monsters on monsters on monsters!...
I'm very excited for Alexandre Aja's Crawl. It's been a while since we had an alligator horror movie to be excited about, and Aja's The Hills Have Eyes reboot is one of the very best remakes ever committed to film. The only question that re...
Jaws should have always been about an alligator. This is just a fact. Alligators are gigantic meat-eating monsters that can also walk on land, which makes them about three billion times more dangerous than a dumb shark that you can just st...
Release the Titans! This newest trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters really upped its game when it comes to spectacle. If the prospect of a disaster movie with giant monsters fighting amidst crumbling cities and possible worldwide de...
Jordan Vogt-Roberts has shown that he can make a good monster movie with Kong: Skull Island and Michael B. Jordan has brought impassioned performances to movies that you wouldn't always expect that in so the announcement that the two are te...
We at Flixist thought that A Quiet Place was quite a good movie. It was so good, in fact, that we deemed it our favorite horror movie of 2018! In that blog I noted my sincere hopes that a litany of half-baked sequels won't sink the high exp...
Dread has released the first trailer for Book of Monsters, which you might think is horror movie where the filmmakers used Mad Libs to decide what monsters to use--and you'd be kind of right. Book of Monsters started as a Kickstarter movie...
If you were to tell me five years ago that Jordan Peele was going to be one of the most compelling horror directors in Hollywood and win an Academy Award for his 2017 movie Get Out, I would wonder who you were and why you were asking me su...
We got a couple shots and a few details on Jordan Peele's follow up to Get Out, and they seem to suggest something more traditionally horror than his previous work. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, he said that he "wanted to do something...
I'm sure there's some other stuff going on in Godzilla: King of Monsters because WB is building out a whole cinematic universe thing and that requires humans to be in it and their underlying Monarch subplot to continue, but man does this m...
There was a time during our collective naivete where we all guffawed at the very idea of the Dark Universe—nearly a decade later and with several films in the bank, the fruits of Universal's labors have produced a very different resul...
I am a staunch defender of the 2014 Godzilla soft-sequel-reboot as a worthy member of the Godzilla family. Sure it wasn't great but for a westernized adaptation of a purely Japanese creation it held onto some of the more subtle themes, su...
I wasn't a huge fan of Jurassic World when it first came out, but I can tell you that I liked that fact that it ended with t-rex, a raptor, and a genetically modified dino fighting it out in an obvious homage to early Hollywood m...
As we all know, wildlings are people that live north of the wall that the Rangers, or Black Brothers like to kill. Oh, this isn't Game of Thrones? I just thought what with the 7 year wait it must be. In that case ... Wha...
When you're a child of four, you do everything with your brothers and sisters. You play together, you eat together, you even get haircuts together. And, if one of you is due for a dentist appointment, all of you are. There needs to be an...
We got movies with killer tomatoes. We got movies with killer cars. We got movies with killer vaginas and penises. We got movies with killer hair extensions. The film industry has no shortage of creators saying, "I bet this could kill you,"...
If you've ever wondered what you'd get if Jurassic World met The Walking Dead and they had a love child born of some sort of maniacal orgy with Duke Nukem, Resident Evil, The Toxic Avenger, and the special effects of Sharktopus, boy a...
I'll start by leveling with you here. I don't speak a word of Japanese. This trailer is totally in Japanese. But what's on display here goes beyond language. You have a giant monster (crocodile or maybe a salamander) tearing up shit throug...
The Rampage games were never anything that special. Basically the same thing level after level for more than 100 levels with slight variations as things progressed through the years. But they hold a special place in my heart becau...
Universal's Monster Universe, not-so-lovingly called the Dark Universe, has lots its captains and is on hold. They had a plan. They really did. Universal didn't have any comic book properties, and they didn't want to risk spending a l...
Godzilla is so hot right now. Not only is he starring in his own cinematic universe, but he's been reborn in Japan as well. Now he's going to be all reborn again with a new anime, Godzilla: Monster Planet. If you check out the trailer you'...
If you have a movie franchise these days, even if it isn't that successful, you evidently have to make it a cinematic universe. It's just a rule now. Studios want money and the way to make money these days is assumed to be a cinematic unive...
The Mummy isn't doing so hot. Poor reviews and a lackluster box office have put the entire Dark Universe cinematic universe in jeopardy. That might not be a bad thing, though. I mean, do we really need an Invisible Man movie starring Johnny...
Everybody wants a superhero movie universe now. Thanks to Marvel's insane success at stringing together a cinematic comic universe, every movie studio out there wants a piece of the pie. You can't really blame them. Cinematic universes put ...
Adam Wingard has directed two of my favorite horror films ever, You're Next and The Guest, and while his attempt at making Blair Witch relevant again didn't work out, I'm glad to see him getting more work. However, that works...
We’ve known since 2014 that Universal wanted a piece of this super hot ‘cinematic universe’ (©Marvel) action. It’s all the rage. After all, they’re friggin’ UNIVERSAL—how could they not have on...
The live-action adaptation of Rampage seems to be moving forward without any hitches. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is playing the hero of the film, and director Brad Peyton promises scares and the feels. Today Heat Vision reported that Malin A...
The monster movie is making a comeback. No, not the still-odd-to-me Universal Monster Cinematic Universe. I'm talking giant, city-destroying monsters. And yes, they're getting their own universe. Unbeknownst to us the kick off for that univ...
It's been nearly a decade since I watched The Host. It was my first Bong Joon-Ho film, and I was hooked. Anything he makes, I'll give it a watch, whether it's something like 2003's Memories of Murder or as ambitiously off the rails as 2013'...
If you can spare a few minutes away from your family today, you should check out the first Red Band trailer for Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott's Prometheus wasn't received too well, so it looks like Scott wants to rectify that with the seque...
The Mummy reboot with Tom Cruise teased a trailer last week with a short preview and a movie poster. The trailer for the film just dropped, and it looks much darker than the kooky, happy-go-lucky Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser. Also, you ...
In case you forgot (why would you remember?), an adaptation of Rampage has been in the works for years. The film seems to have some actual legs on it now that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is attached to star with San Andreas director Brad Peyt...
As often as I can, I like to go into films relatively blind. In the case of The Monster, my Facebook feed had been full of friends talking about how stellar the leading performances were and how great it was that they had gone with practica...
With King Kong and Godzilla set to fight in 2020, Kong: Skull Island has to do quite a bit to set up Kong as a threat to to not only Godzilla, but nature itself. With this final trailer for the upcoming reboot/prequel, we're given a look at...
When Gareth Edwards' take on Godzilla failed to light up screens here in the U.S., Godzilla's parent company, Toho, took the reboot as kind of an insult. Vowing to reclaim their famous monster, Toho unveiled a striking new design for the ra...
