ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, OCT. 16, 2015 By Steve Newton "Ghosts are real," proclaims Edith (Mia Wasikowska) at the start of Crimson Peak, and for the next two hours Guillermo Del Toro strives to bring that notion to life with a Gothic horror-romance that is so visually stunning you pretty well forgive its major lack of … Continue reading Crimson Peak may be the most ravishing horror movie ever made
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Horror review: The Orphanage
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, DEC. 20, 2007 Somebody ought to kidnap the directors of the Saw and Hostel films, strap them into those torture chairs they're so fond of, attach some eyelid clamps from A Clockwork Orange, and make them watch The Orphanage for a week straight. Maybe then they'd understand that unrelenting sadism and … Continue reading Horror review: The Orphanage
The Orphanage’s Juan Antonio Bayona drawn to the dark side
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, DEC. 20, 2007 By Steve Newton Most people have a keen recollection of the first film that scared the crap out of them. For Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, it wasn't anything as fright-worthy as The Exorcist; he got creeped out by seeing Frank Langella go batty in a justifiably overlooked … Continue reading The Orphanage’s Juan Antonio Bayona drawn to the dark side