Young CriticZack Snyder's latest falls into familiar mistakes The zombie genre has had rollercoaster patterns over time, where it oversaturates the market, then is left to dust for a while, before revisited again. The early 2000s sa
Young CriticThe ninth film in the Saw franchise struggles to justify its existence Lionsgate had a surprise hit with Saw (2004). The original film was made by straight-out-of-film school buddies James Wan and Leigh Whannell for $1 m
Young CriticChristopher Landon returns with another genre mash up that doesn't necessarily work Christopher Landon has emerged as a curious director specializing in a kind of genre-mash. Having begun his directing career in such fra
Young CriticThe sequel to the vastly successful zombie flick proves to be an embarrassing failure Train to Busan (2016) proved to be not only a surprise hit in the crowded zombie-genre, but a worldwide financial and critical phenome
Young CriticAdam Sandler's latest Netflix flick proves to be another sluggish and unfunny affair Adam Sandler has had one of the most successful careers in Hollywood. From his breakout in Saturday Night Live (1975-), to his comedy b
Young CriticRich Symbolism Highlights Important Themes If At the Cost of the Larger Narrative It says a lot about the world, and specifically of America, in seeing how many films about slavery have been made in comparison to those o
Young CriticThe infamous film stuck in development hell finally is released Many times, films are stuck in development hell for a variety of reasons, be it reshoots or rewrites, a studio’s lack of confidence in a financial hit, or c
Young CriticA symbolic journey of the tolls of dementia Australia has been producing a slew of adept horror directors in recent years. Jennifer Kent burst onto the scene with her fabulous The Babadook (2014), and later with her harr
Young CriticIt seems that every once in a while there is a debate about whether art can provoke violence. As with all these conversations, there are fears and predictions that mass violence and shootings will occur at theaters (this
Young CriticThe best uses of genre in film are when it uses particular tropes to comment on a specific issue. With the commercialization of genre films, however, this can easily be lost to the cashing in and exploitation of clichés.
Young CriticRobert Eggers burst onto the filmmaking scene with his horror film The Witch (2015), which showed an incredible restraint and immersion of setting. The Sundance Best Director winner, has brought his follow up: The Lighth
Young CriticThe zombie genre has had an explosive pop-culture run in the past decade and a half. Films, comics, and especially TV, with the blockbuster The Walking Dead (2010-), have capitalized on a surprising demand for the dead.
Young CriticIt (2017) became the highest-grossing horror film of all time, with its clever adaptation and split of Stephen King’s 1400 page novel, and nearly $800 million at the world-wide box-office. The 2017 film only took on half
Young CriticFables are the oldest method of teaching lessons to kids and adults alike. As storytelling has developed over humanity’s existence, the art of the narrative has grown more complex with fables alongside. Teaching lessons
Young CriticThe book series “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” proved to be hugely influential to US teenagers of the 80s, as they brought original and terrifying tales to life (with a helpful dose of the petrifying illustrations).
Young CriticAri Aster burst onto the horror scene with Hereditary (2018), a meticulously crafted film that has been compared to The Exorcist (1973) in its craft and scares. No doubt, the American director’s second film is highly ant
Young CriticThe zombie genre has been surprisingly flexible to infuse symbolism. Since the mainstream launch of the genre with George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) the genre has explored the fear that people had with infe
Young CriticThere’s a reason why horror films have such low budgets; such a volatile genre can deliver massive cultural and commercial hits or some of the worst films ever released. Smart directors are able to spin the low money int
Young CriticWhen there is enough saturation in any given genre, there are attempts to experiment and spin new perspectives. Such is the case with Scream (1996) in the horror genre, or The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with the mu
Young CriticAnother one. Yet another reboot for a franchise that didn’t need one. There are only two Hellboy films, which came out in the early 2000s. What made them such a hit was the unique flavor that actor Ron Perlman brought to
Young CriticEvery couple of decades there’s a filmmaker that is able to see and transmit the social state of the country. There have been the likes of Fassbinder in Germany during the 70s and 80s, Oliver Stone in the US in the 80s a
Young CriticIn a recent Twitter post documentarian Michael Moore thanked Netflix for funding and releasing films that would otherwise have remained in a vault somewhere. This leads to beautiful gems like Roma and Mudbound , but it
Young CriticThe horror genre has frequently brought about the boldest ideas and concepts in cinema today; largely thanks to small budgets filmmakers able to risk more with their projects. We had a groundbreaking horror film earlier
Young CriticB-horror movies were the entry point for many filmmakers throughout Hollywood history. A low budget doesn’t impede a skilled director to garner any scares, and thus it is the perfect filter for studios looking for the ne