The murder of a young girl leads to an examination of the Islamic belief in djinn in Possessed by Djinn. A four-year-old Jordanian girl named Aya is brutally killed by her father, who believed that she was possessed. Spurred on by this event, filmmaker Dalia Al Kury launches into an investigation of djinn, which many…
James Wan returns with his second horror film of the year (and apparently his final one for the foreseeable future). Insidious: Chapter 2 takes place nearly immediately after the events of the previous film and sees Josh and Renai Lambert (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) staying with their kids at the house of Josh’s mother…
There are people all over the world, who are desperate in need of a new organ to survive. However, there is not enough supply to meet the demand and there are people who end up waiting years for a qualified donor to appear. As such, some people go to extreme measures and spend thousands of…
Over the course of the last decade or so, horror films from the 1970s and 1980s have been remade at increasing frequency. Since this period is often considered one of the high points for the genre, there is constant frustration about Hollywood constantly mining established franchises, instead of creating original properties. The latest of this…
The closing film of the TIFF Next Wave Film Festival for Youth was the official North American premiere of this Canadian horror-comedy, which put a twist on the overused zombie apocalypse premise. The film is notable for the fact that it is the first Canadian film to be shot in stereoscopic 3D (more on that…
After the combination the Toronto Film Festival and my trip to Calgary, I had a bit of a backlog of movies I wanted to see. As such, this week I decided to see the three-week old Devil, instead of one of the newer releases. For this film M Night Shyamalan moves into the producer’s seat,…
Until he finally gets to doing it, Drag Me to Hell is closest Sam Raimi has gotten to doing a forth Evil Dead film. This film makes full use of the campy horror introduced in that series and I had a great time watching the film. The film mixed scares with almost goofy gags, which…
When the original Hellboy came out four years ago, I only knew Guillermo del Toro as the guy who directed Blade II and a Spanish-language horror film called The Devil’s Backbone. However, I ended up liking the film so much, that I was excited to see del Toro’s next film Pan’s Labyrinth, which officially made…
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