In Theaters November 24th, 2015
A very Happy early Thanksgiving to you! Due to the holiday this week, it is one of the special times in the new movie calendar where new releases start hitting the theaters on Tuesday night. In anticipation of this slate…
#077 – Crimson Peak and Understanding Our Monsters
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Another special Halloween episode! This time we talk about a film marketed as a stereotypical horror film but what we get is something quite different. Our panel discusses if it really…
Reviewing The Classics| Nosferatu
What do you think of when you imagine vampires? Perhaps you think of Bela Lugosi in the classic 1931 Dracula. Or you might think of the recently passed Christopher Lee, star of 10 vampire movies with one of the more…
Review| Crimson Peak
Edith Cushing: “Ghosts are real, that much I know. I’ve seen them all my life…” Horror movies aren’t particularly my thing, you know? I’ve seen the big hitters: The Exorcist, The Shining, (Fill in the one I’m missing here), but I rarely…
#073 – It Follows and the Stigma of Sex
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We are taking a look at a genre of film that we rarely get to address on the podcast; Horror. With most of the offerings from the horror genre being shallow,…
Review| The Visit
Night Shyamalan returned to the big screen and the horror genre this past weekend with The Visit. Of course, the real question that everybody has been asking is, “what kind of return is it— a Sixth Sense effort or an…
Netflix Your Weekend June 3.0
Via MARK WINGERTER Jack Reacher – You’re probably thinking- Jack who? Believe it or not this movie has Tom Cruise in it. And you probably missed it like most people did- including me. But I needed something to watch one boring evening…
Netflix Your Weekend | The Babadook
The first movie that ever really scared me was The Exorcist or possibly Poltergeist. Why on earth my parents ever let me watch those movies when I was a kid is beyond me (maybe they didn’t and I just watched…
Review | Spring
Sci-Fi and horror are two unique dramas that allow filmmakers the space to create movies with unique visuals, obviously. But, it also gives filmmakers an alternate way to deal with complex inner-life and outer-life issues. From the meta realities of…
Review | It Follows
Like so many horror movies before it—Halloween, Friday the 13th, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, to name a few—Robert David Mitchell’s It Follows is about sex, which, of course, has very specific connotations in the genre and is replete with…