FrightFest: Maika Monroe on The Guest, It Follows, horror and finding interesting female roles
Despite a starring role in Ramin Bahrani‘s At Any Price and supporting roles in Labor Day and The Bling Ring, Maika Monroe isn’t a well-known name to many. But following her excellent performances in both The Guest and It Follows, a pair of highly entertaining new horror pictures, and a role in upcoming YA adaptation The 5th Wave, I … Read more
FrightFest: All Cheerleaders Die review
Maddy (Caitlin Stasey) isn’t one of the popular clique, she’s more independent and perhaps a little too smart or individual to fit in with the more popular cheerleaders at her school, but when her childhood friend, Alexis (Felisha Cooper), dies in a gruesome cheerleading accident, and Alexis’ boyfriend moves on a little too quickly, she decides … Read more
FrightFest: The Guest review
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett previously collaborated on the reasonably successful and rather enjoyable home invasion thriller, You’re Next. Now their second feature together, The Guest, is along and it’s similarly enjoyable, and could very well be as successful. But also like You’re Next, The Guest doesn’t entirely come together, and while it has some interesting ideas, they aren’t always … Read more
Into the Storm review
There are number of questions that come to mind whenever one watches a found footage or faux-documentary feature, and when satisfactory answers aren’t forthcoming, these questions begin to poison the film, revealing its artifice and very often making the filmmakers look lazy or incompetent. Sticking strictly to found footage verisimilitude, as with Willow Creek, or coming up with a … Read more