Horrorfest

Kurt Russell spends two hours failing to trust anybody and being right every single time. The practical effects have aged into something better than realism. Nothing since has earned its paranoia so honestly.

The Thing, 1982 . rated 5.0 of 5 . Aug 1

The ending is the whole film. Everything before it is a competent monster picture; the last four minutes turn it into something people argue about twenty years later.

The Mist, 2007 . rated 4.0 of 5 . Jul 3

I watched this alone, which was a mistake I intend to repeat. Toni Collette does a thing at a dinner table that I have not recovered from. The last twenty minutes lose me a little, but the first hundred are close to perfect.

Hereditary, 2018 . rated 4.5 of 5 . Jun 30