Horror has so many of these maddening psychological mysteries and creepy kid thrillers that a doomsday bunker could be stocked for centuries without risking a repeat.

“The Axiom” has a solidly developed story that helps it become one of the better-executed indies to swim in largely disappointing DTV streams.

Whereas “Happy Death Day” was a snarky slasher whodunit, “Happy Death Day 2U” is a fully comedic sci-fi caper movie.

How does a previously mediocre-at-best thriller hold up under the forgiving light of nostalgia 18 years later? Surprisingly not too poorly.

“St. Agatha” turns in a strong showing of gross-outs, gruesomeness, and other assorted scenes of savagery.

It took me over half of the runtime before I finally accepted that the movie might be telling a joke rather than being the butt of one.

Finally, a film to expand and inspire my knowledge, exposure, and appreciation of an often overlooked slice of cinema.

Filmmakers who really ought to know better are still plopping out redundant first-person flicks like cinema sadists taking their whips to Secretariat’s corpse.

Slow and steady may win the race, but it doesn’t make for an energetically engaging movie.

Why did I watch “Char Man?” I want to work out what would possess me to make such a terrible choice for an evening’s entertainment.

The film refrains from hitting a high heat, bubbling on an acceptable simmer that can singe fingertips without peaking into a full fire.

“Dry Blood” includes an almost equal number of plusses to its minuses, basically becoming a decidedly average microbudget horror movie.

You’d have to be a complete Grinch to be immune to the movie’s ability to melt icy hearts with its punchy spirit and cheeky splatter.

What exactly does anyone want out of a Predator movie that this film doesn’t deliver?

Bursting with black lights, strobe lights, skipped frames, and Stargate wormhole whips, “The Hive” exhibits the ADD energy of a music video on methamphetamines.

Whenever I reflect on the unusual appeal of its mesmeric allure, the more I appreciate “Under the Silver Lake” as a unique travelogue through a weird waking dreamscape.

I can’t think of a plausible scenario to explain how six writers became creatively involved in something so formulaically flavorless.

Looking at “Bird Box” solely through a lens comparing it to “A Quiet Place” kneecaps the movie’s merits as sharply produced, well-acted drama.

I wish there was something more than stage-setting to the first 60 minutes so that “One Cut of the Dead” didn’t take so long to win me over.

You could fill an ocean with the classic Universal and Hammer monster movie atmosphere pouring from “The Nun” like a waterfall.