Tag: predictable

  • Anna and the Apocalypse by Jonny Numb

    Anna and the Apocalypse: A Fresh Spin on the Horror Musical? When it comes to teen-angst, coming-of-age comedy-dramas, I’m always ready and willing to be manipulated into a nostalgic mindset. I’m still a sucker for The Breakfast Club. I love Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. In the horror realm, Life After Beth and Night of the…

  • The Nun by Billy Crash

      The Nun Treads on Tired Ground Corin Hardy, director of the ho-hum The Hallow, brings us another safe and formulaic commercial horror with The Nun. Part of the equally impotent Conjuring universe developed in part by James Wan, who co-wrote The Nun, the story supplies the origin story for the nun behind the painting in The…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Worst Horror 2017

    Worst Horror 2017 Unfortunately, as horror fans, we always have to take the bad with the good, and that leads Billy Crash and Jonny Numb to explore Worst Horror 2017. Where Jonny Numb sees 2017 as a good year for the genre, Billy Crash has been disappointed by commercial and independent movies alike. Horror fans wrote…

  • Chronic Demonic Vomit: 666 from Billy Crash

        Number of the Beast I’ve had it. While watching a movie I’m not at liberty to name, the digital clock ramped up speed – and landed on 6:66 o’clock. I began to roll my eyes but stopped when acid shot into the back of my throat as I endured another horror train wreck.…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Dead on Arrival: Halloween

    Happy Halloween! Hey… “Wait a minute, you’re saying John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic is overrated?!” Yup. We take a look at Carpenter’s renowned Halloween film that launched Jamie Lee Curtis’s career, helped solidify the writer/director as a burgeoning horror icon, and added another bloody feather to the amazing cinematographer, Dean Cundey’s cap. Now, don’t think we’re stabbing you in the heart – or…