Category Archives: Supernatural

31 Days of Horror: Weapons (2025; R; 128 mins.)

Posted on October 30, 2025 | Leave a comment

I wasn’t sure what I was getting into with this movie, but I’m so glad I gave it a chance. A great blend of horror, mystery, the supernatural, comedy, psychology…all backed up by fabulous acting, great storytelling, and tension throughout.

When an entire classroom of children–except for one child and the teacher–disappear one night at the same time, the town is quick to point fingers at the young teacher, calling her a witch. However, the teacher is just as confused and lost, trying to figure out where her beloved students went. As she begins to investigate, we learn a bit more before changing to another townperson’s perspective of events, with some overlap before the story continues on. Bit by bit, as this form of storytelling continues, we learn more details, yet it’s two steps forward, one step back, when what affected the missing children spreads out to others too. In the end, it’s a race against time and circumstances and otherly powers…who will figure out the answers and who will be too late?

Top Scare: Dream

Heartbeats: 3 3/4 out of 5

Gore Factor: 4 1/4 out of 5

Scare Factor: 3 1/2 out of 5

Recommended for: 15 and up due to gore, language

31 Days of Horror: V/H/S (2012; R; 116 mins.)

Posted on October 22, 2025 | 4 comments

As a fan of found-footage horror movies, I’ve wanted to watch this one for quite some time. My head is still spinning and I’m researching how to scrub my eyeballs as I type.

In this very shaky, under-lit gore-fest designed to appeal to young men, a group of this target audience who smashes, bashes, and harrasses while filming themselves to make money agrees to search an abandoned house in search of a VHS tape for a supposedly big payoff. Once they arrive, they split up after seeing that the home has various stashes of tapes: while some search here or there, one stays in a kind of media room to watch tapes to see if it’s the one they’re looking for. What follows are fifteen to twenty-minute mini stories which have all been taped over bits of other content on various VHS tapes. Each story features young folks, mostly men, behaving very badly (think misogyny to the nth degree, depravity, drugs, questionable sexual escapades, etc.) and paranormal happenings (with extreme blood/body parts and excessive nudity).

As the mini stories continue, we also are seeing things occur in the house around the group of guys. Of course, they are recording, and so it’s all caught on tape as well. When these occurrences begin to ramp up, so do the scares. Eventually, the mini stories, current timeline, and a past event connect via the VHS tapes, with a nicely done finale full of tension and fear. The question for viewers is: do you want to wade through the rest to get there?

Top Scare: On a video

Heartbeats: 3 1/2 out of 5

Gore Factor: 5 out of 5

Scare Factor: 3 3/4 out of 5

Recommended for: 17 or 18 and up, due to excessive gore, cussing, nudity, sex, and drugs

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31 Days of Horror: The Deliverance (2024; R; 112 mins.)

Posted on October 16, 2024 | Leave a comment

Based on a true case out of Gary, Indiana, with demonic posession witnessed by police officers, doctors, and a social worker, this is the story of Latoya Ammons (Ebony in this version) and her three children who all experienced strange and violent incidents in their home which escalated over time. I was very much looking forward to this movie, after reading so much about the true story. But-despite some amazing acting from Day, Close, and a couple others-this version initially showed promise, dragged quite a bit in the middle, then rallied in the end for an overall so-so experience.

When very rough-around-the-edges Ebony (Andra Day) and her three children move to a new home with her mother Alberta (Glenn Close), who is fighting cancer and has recently “found Jesus,” all is not rainbows and roses. Ebony has a drinking problem and is a harsh mother and daughter, money is more than tight, and weird noises keep coming from the basement. When the youngest boy, Andre, starts talking to seemingly no one and wandering the house at night in a trance, Ebony angrily tells him to stop. Meanwhile, a social worker (Mo’Nique) stops in regularly to check on the kids, asking where all their bruises are coming from, and another unknown woman is often sitting in her car at the curb watching the house from the street.

As more and more odd and then violent occurrences take place in the house and then at school to the children, other social workers become involved, as well as the woman in the car. But no one seems to believe Ebony when she says she is not hurting her kids, and the kids don’t have memories of what has been happening. With the demon taking greater posession over time, Ebony must figure out a way to help both herself and her kids if she is to keep her family together, keep them all safe, and rid them all of this demon before it’s too late.

Top Scare: Hospital
Heartbeats: 1 1/2 out of 5
Gore Factor: 2 1/4 out of 5
Scare Factor: 2 1/4 out of 5
Recommended for: 16 and up