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Osgood Perkins’ version of Stephen King’s 1980 short story ‘The Monkey’ is a splatter comedy. The film should come with the warning, “Abandon subtext all ye who enter here,” with an addendum of, “Embr…
A camera flashes to illuminate a skull dripping with putrid flesh. A young woman walks tentatively toward an unassuming but strangely malevolent house beneath a bright blue sky. A red wall adorned in…
British director Rob Savage showed how inventive he is with his pandemic Zoom horror film Host. His ability to create strong visuals is what makes the otherwise thin Stephen King adaptation The Boogey…
Written, directed, and edited by Mike Flanagan, Doctor Sleep stars Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance, last seen as a child in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and now a middle-aged alcoholic who has been co…
It Chapter Two kicks off twenty-seven years after the events of the first film. The majority of the Losers club have left Derry and made lives for themselves elsewhere, except for Mike (Isaiah Mustafa…
As a vet nurse, I saw more than enough pet related tragedy for a lifetime. I wrote about the five things I learned as a vet nurse a while ago, and the third point still rings true. I can still remembe…