Six Flags Fright Fest celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. This season’s event at Six Flags Magic Mountain features eight haunted houses and seven scare zones, as well as some monstrous entertainment and seasonal foods and drinks. We visited all the haunted houses during our trip to Fright
What happens when you combine Scream, Back to the Future, throw in a bit of Hot Tub Time Machine, and then proceed to tell your audience that we know we're riffing on those movies? You get Totally Killer. It does what the best horror movies do. They take something familiar to audiences and add
Lost in the Reel's video review for Netflix's Reptile When did we last get a show-stopping leading performance from Benicio Del Toro? It feels like forever since we've seen the stoic Oscar-winning actor headline a great film. Denis Villeneuve's Sicaro from 2015 comes to mind, yet Del Toro was
Lost in the Reel's video review for Flora and Son John Carney has really made a name for himself, making micro-budgeted movies all about the power of song. Very few filmmakers have been able to connect the magic of making music to the human condition quite like Carney has been able to during
The Saw series is one that's filled with plenty of hits and also plenty of misses. At a certain point, the traps became the focus instead of the characters. Enter Saw X. The last we've seen of this series was Spiral: From The Book Of Saw. That movie wasn't quite a sequel, but it's still very much
The Apothecary Diaries begins its long-awaited third season, introducing Maomao to a potential plague in Ep. 49 "Locusts". The nature of the plague is quite obvious as you can tell from the title. The real mystery here is how all the characters plan to deal with this looming threat to the entire
The V/H/S series has been a beacon of spookiness and terror in the month of October since its move to Shudder. With this ninth installment in the series, they're focusing on music and sound as the theme. Between the six directors on board (Ernest Dickerson, RZA, Flying Lotus, Tobias Forge, David
Brad Bird makes a strong case that animated feature films are every bit as serious as works of art as any other entry in the medium. And despite his insistence that plot and compelling drama determine his choices scene after scene, maintaining an audience’s determination to stick with the story,