‘The Strangers’ scores at the box office. Huzzah!

I don’t even know what “Huzzah” means, but it seemed like an appropriate way to show excitement. And I’m excited ‘cuz The Strangers, which I loved, pulled in $20 million at the box office this weekend.  Obviously, there was no way for it to compete against the Sex and the City movie or Indiana Jones [...]

‘The Strangers’ gets it right by goin’ old school.

The Strangers (2008) These days, there seems to be two types of horror films in mainstream America. You’ve got the so-called “torture porn” films like Hostel and Saw. Or you’ve got remakes — either or foreign films like One Missed Call or Shutter*, or of classic horror films, like Prom Night (not that the original [...]