The result is a movie capable of commanding attention when the sexiness fires on all cylinders and the bizarreness mystifies before getting too far ahead of itself.

I’ve heard more emotion from Siri when asking my iPhone to find a sushi bar with a good happy hour than these girls offer after anyone in their friend circle dies.

“All Cheerleaders Die” makes an inspired mix out of familiar concepts and unfurls in a manner that is unusual and unexpected, but nearly always entertaining.

“Blood Shed” struggles to be unique against a script and a story that is poorly paced and confusingly underdeveloped.

“Mr. Jones” is a movie that is almost on its way to telling a frighteningly Lovecraftian yarn, but ultimately finds itself distracted by overindulgent artistry.

“Axeman” makes a strong case for suggesting that the “Friday the 13th” homage/ripoff would be better off cooling its jets in the freezer indefinitely until someone figures out a fresher angle to make it interesting again.

“P.O.E. Project of Evil” comes up with a collection of horror shorts that cannot exactly be described as “good”, but there are still enough oddball oddities on display to make it bizarrely fascinating in just about the weirdest possible way.

... it is always pretty to look at and never flat out dull, and that makes “Witching and Bitching” a fun and entertaining ride through elaborately wild territory.

“What We Do in the Shadows” has achieved nigh universal acclaim from those more prone to falling in love with the hypnotic charm of a satirical vampire mockumentary.

“LFO” dances around fascinating possibilities to be sure, but the final delivery is funneled through a stifling plotline that has too little payoff.

“Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead” evolves ... along its natural arc of “Evil Dead” homage by practically skipping the double dog dare of the second movie and going straight for over-the-top “Army of Darkness” outrageousness.

... the cleverness in the collective charm of everything mentioned above ends up working in unison to put “The Babadook” at the top of the list for the most emotionally engaging horror film of 2014.

"Rigor Mortis" is a border-blending fusion of Japanese ghost story and Cantonese vampire fiction spiked with sensationalized martial arts action as the cherry on top.

If a film by David Lynch mated with a movie from John Waters, and that offspring tried morphing into a Farrelly Brothers comedy , the result might look something like “R100.”

No matter how many boilerplate story beats and seen before character types are used as links in its predictable plot chain, “Ragnarok” squeezes so much quality from its all-ages appeal that fun trounces formula.

Even if it seems initially satisfying as disposable horror entertainment, subsequent franchise installments now have a long run challenge to bring the series back to a sane track of forward-moving progress.

“Moebius” makes it entirely too easy to be preoccupied with swimming against unrelenting waves of wordless weirdness drowning whatever it is the movie means to convey.

“Beast of the Bering Sea” is either a home run dinger in a Little League ballpark, or a big time strikeout in a Major League stadium.

The scariest thing about the movie is the prospect of falling asleep suddenly and hitting your head on the armrest.

More than just well executed and highly entertaining as first-person horror, “Afflicted” turns into the most believable body horror transformation movie I have ever seen.