It’s Gonna Be A Scream
4 Horror Movie Geeks Pick Their Top 5 Scary Movies
Meerah Powell’s Picks REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) Just because Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 film, based on a novel by Hubert Selby Jr., isn’t explicitly a … Continue reading
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Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween
Eugene Weekly staffers Meerah Powell and Rick Levin discuss some of their favorite horror films throughout the eras in this spooky Halloween bonus episode of What’s Happening. Don’t know what you should be watching this All Hallows’ Eve? We’ve got you covered. So get some popcorn popping, light some candles (and your jack-o’-lantern), cuddle up on the couch with a blanket and get scared. For even more Halloween-y movies, check out the Halloween issue of Eugene Weekly out in our red boxes on Oct. 26, 2017, or online always at EugeneWeekly.com.
Killing Me Oftly
Groundhog Day meets Scream in the recurring nightmare of Happy Death Day
In Ambrose Bierce’s classic story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” a plantation owner in the Civil War is hanged from a bridge. Between the … Continue reading
The Future is Past
Dennis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is a tidy but unsatisfying sequel to Ridley Scott’s cult classic
Will we reach a moment in time when the real world looks more science-fictional than movies? Or does it already? Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released … Continue reading
Do Not Resuscitate
Flatliners remake is predictably dead on arrival
This Flatliners remake is truly mystifying. What called for a new version of the 1990 Julia Roberts/Kiefer Sutherland/Kevin Bacon thriller now? (Or ever, for that … Continue reading
Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair
Florence Pugh delivers a powerhouse performance in the period psycho-thriller Lady Macbeth
For my money, Lady Macbeth is second only to Iago among Shakespeare’s depictions of pure Machiavellian evil. She is delicious — a monster of insidious … Continue reading
The Mother of All Movies
Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is a grotesque, intellectual thrill ride not meant for the faint of heart
It’s been a while since a major studio movie has been as divisive as Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! There is no spectrum of audience appreciation for … Continue reading
Subverting Tropes
Beach Rats’ tragic gay figures
Beach Rats is a lot of things in one film: beautiful, ominous, crushingly sad, tender, lonesome, scary, new and yet too familiar. Its contradictions are … Continue reading
Send in the Clown
Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It is all (carnival) bark and no bite
I read Stephen King’s It when it came out in 1986, and even if that’s suddenly a hell of a long time ago, I do … Continue reading
Whiteout in Wyoming
An unlikely pair of agents investigates a murder on the Indian reservation in Wind River
My favorite moment in writer-director Taylor Sheridan’s new thriller Wind River comes at the very end of the film. Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a Fish … Continue reading