The Apparition is dreadful, dull and plodding. It is never scary, funny, insightful or entertaining. It is a complete misfire. At its core, writer/director Todd Lincoln seems to have a germ of an interesting idea, but the film loses touch with that idea as quickly as it introduces it. In a college science experiment, a group of parapsychologists attempt to record the proof of ghosts, spirits or similar... 

It’s been a few weeks full of non-movie stuff, but we happily climb back behind the microphones to put together another show. It’s a full room as Rafe, Margaret, Owen, and Tim get together to talk movies. After a few weeks (and in Tim’s case, a few months) apart, the result is something that feels like a reunion show. We’re only sorry Doc Rotten wasn’t with us to talk... 

Taking over the annual October Halloween spot from Saw, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity franchise returns this season bringing another entry in the Cinema Verite series with Paranormal Activity 3 from directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish). Taking its mythos further into its origins, the script goes back to 1988 when sisters Katie (from Paranormal Activity) and Kristi (from Paranormal... 

For horror fans, the spring and summer theatrical releases of 2011 have been very dry – terribly, terribly barren. However, beginning August 5th, scarier, more thrilling genre films, get a resurgence with a new theatrical release nearly every single week through October. Some are true horror films with haunted houses, vampires and demons in the dark. While others have a more science fiction tinge... 

In the long list of sub-genres that define the HORROR MOVIE, the ghost movie and the haunted house movie are decidedly different and very much alike. You can certainly have one without the other; but, most of the time, you’re treated with both. There are examples of one over the other. In classic literature, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has its share of ghosts but there’s no real haunted house.... 

Insidious is scary-ass fun. Your goose-pimples will have goose-pimples. James Wan, the director of Saw, has crafted a new horror film with old-time sensibilities that will likely redefine ghost movies for a whole new generation. Wan, together with Saw partner Leigh Whannell and producer Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity), have succeeded in making a chilling haunted house film – full of all the expected...