Comedy, Drama, Horror
Joker

Joker begs for a hero. It gives us a clown. Gotham seeks salvation and finds only blood.

Drama, Horror
IT Chapter Two

You can’t keep a bad clown down. And Pennywise is a very, very bad clown.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Don’t Let Go

The most gruesome parts of this pic’s killings are just outside our view. But the punishing violence we do see …

Comedy, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Ready or Not

Ready or Not is a deranged black comedy that wears its wild-eyed craziness proudly.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror
47 Meters Down: Uncaged

I think sharks would enjoy 47 Meters Down: Uncaged more than humans might.

Drama, Horror
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Can a movie be incredibly creepy, lightly profane and … kinda boring all at the same time?

Action/Adventure, Horror
Crawl

A few simple edits of this horror flick’s harsh profanity and graphic gore could have easily yielded a PG-13 rating.

Drama, Horror
Midsommar

A stay at a drug-filled pagan commune in rural Sweden might not be everyone’s ideal vacation.

Horror
Annabelle Comes Home

We can only experience so many screeching fiends and shadow-gliding ghoulies before a certain been-there-screamed-at-that ennui sets in.

Drama, Horror
Child’s Play (2019)

This movie, like Chucky himself, should’ve never been made.

Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Dead Don’t Die

I get that this zombie satire’s supposed to be funny. But it isn’t. And I get that it’s supposed to …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Ma

When Ma ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy. Including those of us in the audience.

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Brightburn

Like the disturbed alien child at its center, this movie feels bad to its very marrow.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Intruder

The Intruder is a simple, schlocky and salacious diversion, stuffed to its PG-13 gills with as much sex and violence …

Drama, Horror
The Curse of La Llorona

Parents have enough to worry about with their kids now. They don’t need a bogeyman to ratchet up their anxiety …