¡°Sator¡¯s¡± smoke comes from the tinder of its atmospheric allure, not from the thin sticks of its highly fragile fantasy.

I watched ¡°Paranormal Prison¡± because I was morbidly curious about haunted building ¡°found footage¡± fluttering briefly back to life, and look what little that got me.

¡°Wrong Turn¡± isn¡¯t a ¡°retain the rights¡± rush job. It¡¯s a well-crafted thriller with a fair number of things falling into its favor.

Regardless of whether this one tickles your particular dark fantasy fancy, Jennifer Harrington certainly knows how to cut together a crisp flick.

Whoever selects Barbara Crampton¡¯s projects needs to turn down things like ¡°Sacrifice,¡± a waterlogged thriller that¡¯s as pedestrian as its recycled title.

I imagine there was a river of drool in the theater row where A24 buyers sat during the film¡¯s festival debut. ¡°Holy sh*t! Did Rose Glass make this movie specifically for us?¡±

In keeping with ¡®90s cinema references, ¡°A Nightmare Wakes¡± is essentially a horror-tinged arthouse biopic by way of Merchant-Ivory on a budget.

Appreciators of smoldering suspense, indie aesthetics, and foreign flair will be pleasantly surprised at how much polish ¡°The Funeral Home¡± puts on a traditional haunted house yarn.

Knocks at the door when no one is there can only take a horror movie so far, and that distance has difficulty covering ¡°The Night¡¯s¡± runtime.

I preferred ¡°Don¡¯t Tell a Soul¡± when it was being a drama over when it was being a thriller. And I think its solution for a solution is more of a copout than a clever twist.

Tom Savini¡¯s fire appears impossible to distinguish, and ¡°Smoke and Mirrors¡± makes sure everyone can see how brightly that blaze burns.

Sometimes, one person¡¯s impressively contemplative sci-fi is simply another person¡¯s superficially padded speculative fiction.

You¡¯ll certainly carry it with you in your mind¡¯s eye. If not for the full movie, then for the vicious visuals of the finale.