The Skeleton Key: "Here, take your worst-director prize from the Joe Bob Briggs Drive-in Movie Awards and don't let us catch you filming Kate Hudson topless, from behind, ever again!" The Girl With All the Gifts: " The Girl With All the Gifts strives to bring some genuine emotion and tenderness to the zombie genre, but it keeps sabotaging itself with overly saccharine scenes and goofy one-liners." He's an electrifying presence, and his performance, a twist ending, and a final, hilariously over-the-top gore effect make the last half-hour of Jigsaw quite entertaining." Jigsaw: "Tobin Bell has always been the best thing about the Saw movies-even better than those wicked torture devices. Video of Drag Me To Hell (2009) - Official Trailer (HD)Īs Above/So Below: "All the crawling over human bones and descending into dark holes and swimming under walls gets a tad monotonous, though, and by the time the truly freaky stuff starts happening you might wonder if it was all worth the wait-not to mention the pounding shaky-cam headache." It’s easily the best horror flick I’ve seen all year." The Call: " The Call does falter near the end when some scary-movie cliches sneak in, but things are just so damn enthralling up until then that its winning sheen remains mostly untarnished."ĭrag Me to Hell: " knows exactly when to administer the shocks, and that precise timing is what makes Drag Me to Hell such a wildly effective exercise in schlocky thrills. The Shallows: "Things go beyond ridiculous when it comes to the shark's vindictive mindset, but they got that way in Jaws too, you may recall, and nobody whined about it much." Paranormal Activity 2: "It's the scariest movie in years." Video of A Quiet Place (2018) - Official Trailer - Paramount PicturesĬreep: "Duplass's whacked-out performance keeps you fairly riveted to the screen, wondering what crazy s*** Josef's gonna pull next-and how the tormented Aaron will respond."ĭon't Breathe: " Don't Breathe is destined to battle it out with the likes of Green Roomand 10 Cloverfield Lane for the title of Top Hollywood Fright Flick of 2016." Hereditary: "The wrath of Satan seems pretty tame compared to the suffering that damaged family members can inflict on one another."Ī Quiet Place: ".ultimately A Quiet Place emerges as an effective nightmare-maker for parents that is one of those rarest and most welcome commodities for fright-flick fans: horror with heart." Get Out: "I've been reviewing horror movies professionally since 1988.and I can honestly say that is in my top 10 of all time." Keep in mind that I've listed them in order from best to worst, so don't bother with the ones near the bottom unless you're really in the mood to suffer. So with that thought in mind, here's 20 fright flicks I previously reviewed that are currently streaming on Netflix Canada. Sure we're in a tough spot with the coronovirus right now, but the characters in A Quiet Place-who couldn't even speak without being ripped apart by vicious alien beasties -had it way worse. In other words, if you scare yourself silly with a horror movie at home tonight, maybe your fears about not having enough hand sanitizer won't seem so major. I mean, if you run out of toilet paper and can't wipe your ass, that's some scary stuff!īut isn't that why man invented the garden hose, or as it's sometimes called, the "redneck bidet"?Īnyway, to poorly paraphrase FDR, the best way to handle fear is with fear itself. Let's face it: things are gettin' kinda frightening out there with this whole COVID-19 thing.
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