Paul T. Le

Oct 16, 2023 | dreadcentral.com | Tyler Doupé |Paul T. Le |Red Broadwell |Mary Beth McAndrews

Director Mike Flanagan has taken on the Gothic tales of our nightmares with his series The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting Of Bly Manor. His adaptations of Shirley Jackson and Henry James, respectively, are heart-wrenching yet utterly terrifying tales of betrayal, love, and what lurks after death. However, Flanagan breaks this pattern with his latest for Netflix, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, his take on not just one work of Edgar Allan Poe, but the writer’s entire body of work.

Oct 13, 2023 | dreadcentral.com | Paul T. Le |Red Broadwell |Mary Beth McAndrews |Tyler Doupé

I find that the most difficult films to critique are those that don’t make a profound impact as really good or really bad. The Puppetman gets more right than wrong but it still exists in that grey area. It’s rough around the edges, featuring pieces of an interesting story at its core. But Brandon Christensen’s latest feature is bogged down by pacing issues, performances that don’t always connect, and a lack of insight regarding the central evil at play.

Oct 13, 2023 | dreadcentral.com | Red Broadwell |Mary Beth McAndrews |Tyler Doupé |Paul T. Le

In its fourth season, Creepshow evidently isn’t ready to do away with routine. The majority of these new stories include the same old act as before: hapless characters get caught up in uncanny situations, and then are forced to suffer the cruelty of fate and/or the consequences of their own misbegotten actions. The series has this recipe down pat, but as a reminder, horror anthology shows don’t always get more than one season, much less four.

May 26, 2023 | dreadcentral.com | Paul T. Le |Josh Korngut |Giallo Julian |Mary Beth McAndrews

If Mick Jackson’s Threads, the 1984 BBC nuclear war drama, was an augur of a world on the brink, then Bob Mielke’s Threads, a book-length essay on the titular film, is an augur of DieDieBooks’ imminent success. The small press’ first release in a series of essays on horror films (texts on Poltergeist and The Wolf Man are pending release among others) is a marvel.

May 25, 2023 | dreadcentral.com | Josh Korngut |Giallo Julian |Mary Beth McAndrews |Paul T. Le

“Do you want to grow up, Amy?” asks Miranda Otto’s character at one point in The Clearing. To someone unaware, that question might sound like a loving mother nurturing her daughter, but viewers of this new Hulu series know otherwise. In fact, they fear for young Amy’s safety.