A sequel to 2008’s The Strangers (a film that I was completely unaware of going in), Prey at Night sees a family of four taking a road… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Strangers: Prey at Night” (2018)”
Tag: Horror
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “A Quiet Place” (2018)
A Quiet Place takes place in upstate New York at a time when blind monstrous beings have descended on the population, using sound to locate their victims… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “A Quiet Place” (2018)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Unsane” (2018)
Unsane. A far better film than its naff title would suggest.
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Ghost Stories” (2017)
Adapted for the big screen from their own long-running stage play, Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s film stars Nyman as Philip Goodman, a professor who has dedicated… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Ghost Stories” (2017)”
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “The Father Thing”
Aaaaand, we’re back! Following a mysterious meteoroid shower near Illinois, young Charlie Cottrell (Jack Gore) starts to suspect that his once loving father (Greg Kinnear) has been… Read more “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “The Father Thing””
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Shape of Water” (2017)
In 1960s Baltimore, the lonely and mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins) works as a cleaner in a government lab and soon discovers that they have recently acquired a… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Shape of Water” (2017)”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Cloverfield Paradox” (2018)
Taking the whole world by surprise when it was unexpectedly released on Netflix with no fanfare or prior build-up (as well as it all happening when a… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Cloverfield Paradox” (2018)”
Final Thoughts: “Black Mirror” Series Four
Another series of Charlie Brooker’s popular anthology series has hit the ‘flix so it’s time again to go over the episodes and see which ones were hot… Read more “Final Thoughts: “Black Mirror” Series Four”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Prevenge” (2016)
“I’m your vehicle, baby; I’ll take you anywhere you wanna go . . .” Written and directed by Alice Lowe, Prevenge follows Ruth (Lowe), a pregnant widow who begins… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Prevenge” (2016)”