Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time

The sad thing about Evil Dead Rise is that it is so extremely happy to be an Evil Dead movie. Writer-director Lee Cronin is clearly a huge fan of the series, and has put great effort into making sure his movie evokes all sorts of specific lines and story beats and whatnot. One might say, […]

Scream VI is the first movie in the 27-year-old Scream franchise that strikes me as being very much “a generic Scream picture”, which is already an achievement. Most slasher franchises have felt like “a generic _____ picture” by the time the end credits have started rolling in their first entry. That we have made it […]

The Children of the Corn franchise is a sight to behold. It is perhaps the most iconic horror franchise in which almost everyone in the world has only seen the first entry, a 1984 Stephen King short story adaptation which survives in the public consciousness on the back of some iconic villain performances, a solid […]

Categories: horror

A review requested by Mandy Albert, with thanks for supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is perhaps the cult exploitation film of the 2000s. By 2009, when Dutch edgelord auteur […]

Offscreen space can be an effective tool in movies of all kinds, but horror, more than any other genre, benefits from the suggestion that something terrible may be lurking just beyond the frame’s border. What we can’t see, and thus have to conjure in our imagination, often proves scarier than any razor-toothed monster or hatchet-wielding […]

For the U.S. film industry to have produced a knockoff of Child’s Play retooled to make the observation, “huh, did you know that there are dolls connected to the internet these days? What won’t they think of next” that is actually a good and watchable movie counts as a small miracle. For it to have produced […]

The last time Blumhouse created a modernized slasher-thriller that they released exclusively on Peacock, it was the underwhelming and grating They/Them, so it wasn’t exactly impossible for them to raise the bar with Sick, which dropped on the streaming service this Friday the 13th. They even had Scream scribe Kevin Williamson on hand, working together […]

Categories: horror, slashers

Bones and All, the seventh feature film directed by Luca Guadagnino, is kind of about cannibalism, and this is where it gets itself into trouble. No film should be “kind of” about cannibalism. Some subjects just don’t allow for half measures. You should never walk out of a film whose protagonists are cannibals – bisexual […]

I’m not exactly sure how it is that directing a critically-acclaimed Oscar-nominated film that helped create an animation studio and remains the highest-grossing film in that studio’s history sends a fella to Director Jail, but that’s where Henry Selick has been for the thirteen years since making Coraline, still one of the best animated features […]

Prey for the Devil, then operating under The Devil’s Light (it is, I think, an open question which of these is worse – I refuse to frame the question as which of them is “better”) was filmed in the summer of 2020, more than two years before it ultimately came out. And it feels like […]

I can hear you right now. You’re asking, “They made a remake of Terror Train?” That is, if you even remember the movie Terror Train existed in the first place. It’s a minor 1980 classic notable for its setting (a train), its holiday theme (New Year’s Eve), its star (Jamie Lee Curtis), and a couple notables […]

The horror anthology franchise is a very strange beast. In English language cinema, there are really only two of note: The Creepshow trilogy (which was followed by a web series and a Shudder streaming series – and that is really just a gussied-up web series, if you think about it) and the V/H/S films*. At this point, V/H/S […]

Categories: anthology films, horror