Mirrors 2 (2010)
Sep 1, 2021Haunted Mirrors
A sequel to Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors that abandons most of the basics of the first film and strips everything down to a series of gory, novelty deaths
Lance E. Nichols
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)
Sep 18, 2019Haunting/"True Story"
The Haunting in Connecticut was a reasonable success in the claim to being a true story ghost story stakes. This is a sequel, seemingly unaware that Connecticut and Georgia are about a thousand miles apart
13 Sins (2014)
Jun 5, 2015Game of Deadly and Extreme Challenges
I was very impressed with Daniel Stamm's previous film The Last Exorcism; this was his follow-up – a brutal English-language remake of a Thai film where people are offered the challenge of engaging in increasingly more malicious and extreme acts to win large sums of money
June (2015)
May 18, 2017Devil Child
A Devil Child variant with a couple finding that June, the foster child they take on becomes possessed by an entity and develops incredible psychic powers when upset. The main problem with the film is the lack of coherent explanation for what is happening
Before I Wake (2016)
Sep 30, 2016Kid Whose Dreams Come to Life
An overlooked Mike Flanagan film about a kid with the ability to bring his dreams to life, this reads like a cross between an A Nightmare on Elm Street copy and the Joe Dante Twilight Zone – The Movie episode
The Perfect Weapon (2016)
Feb 26, 2017Action Film/Dystopian Future
Steven Seagal makes an SF film. Even more bizarrely, Seagal plays the villain for one of the few times in his career, namely the dictator of a dystopian future. An overweight and aging Seagal has a handful of scenes philosophising, while the bulk of the film is a super-soldier plot carried by others
Camera Obscura (2017)
Apr 27, 2020Camera That Predicts Deaths
Modest horror film in which a photographer obtains a camera that predicts deaths before they happen - only to then find it predicts his wife's death
Mara (2018)
Oct 26, 2020Sleep Paralysis Demon
Olga Kurylenko deals with a demon that appears to those affected by sleep paralysis. Another sleep paralysis horror film that only tepidly dips into the subject