Kwaidan: The Illusion of Life

Photo: Toho There were two massively influential Japanese horror films released in 1964. Onibaba put an unsettling hanniya mask at the center of a grim civil war story; Kwaidan is…

Good Boy

Not another Cujo (1983), but a low-budget horror movie with a story about a dog sensing that things are not right in a house where an old man met a…

The Conjuring: Last Rites 

The fourth (and marketed as the last) Conjuring movie is primarily set in 1986, when the Warrens struggle with Ed’s failing health, meeting their daughter Judy’s new boyfriend, and reluctantly…

The Parenting

A gay couple (Nik Dodani, Brandon Flynn) rent a house for the weekend and invite their parents, little dreaming that it’s haunted. As if getting to know your in-laws over…

Presence

As soon as the Payne family move into a new house, the daughter (Callina Liang), who’s mourning the loss of a friend, senses a strange presence. The kind of ghost…

The Balconettes

During a heat wave in Marseilles, three friends (Souheila Yacoub, Sanda Codreanu, Noémie Merlant) flirt with a sexy neighbor across from their apartment… only to end up with a bloody…

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

36 years after the events in Beetlejuice (1988), Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) tries to reconnect with her teenage daughter (Jenna Ortega); when the latter finds herself in danger, Lydia will…

The Piano Lesson

Pittsburgh, 1936; Boy Willie Charles (John David Washington) returns to his family’s household where he intends to confront his sister over a piano with a tortured history. An adaptation of…

The Black Phone

In 1978, 13-year-old Finney (Mason Thames) is kidnapped by a serial killer called The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) and locked up in a basement where earlier victims soon make themselves known……

Insidious: The Red Door

Dalton Lambert (Ty Simpkins) is going to college, but even if the memories that he and his father (Patrick Wilson) share are thoroughly repressed, The Further hasn’t gone away. The…