Dream holidays and fantasies, they remain perfect because they exist in a limbo, vacuumed away from any imperfection of reality. A 70s T.V. show playfully poked at this with light-hearted escapism going comically wrong. In 2020, that sane show got a sinister slasher vibe as … Continue reading Fantasy Island (2020)
It has become the fashion recently when rebooting an acclaimed video game series, is to take their setting to the sea, Bioshock did this to great commendation in 2005 and in 2016, The Clock Tower series looking to find fresh footing on current consoles, took … Continue reading Terror from the Deep Part 2 – Nightcry (2016)
Sequels can be hard to crack, with the villain defeated, the characters have evolved for the better, there’s usually nowhere else to go. You can try to escalate the conditions of the original film, but this can be a risky gamble. In 1998, it was … Continue reading I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
The slasher genre has had a long and varied history. Despite some people who argue that the slasher film is horror in its purest form, it has a reputation for being overly gratuitous and underdeveloped popcorn fodder. This perception was bucked when the hit film … Continue reading I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
