Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Halloween Horror: The Old Ways (2020)

Depending on your affection for and familiarity with exorcism films, Christopher Alender’s The Old Ways may seem admirably novel or hopelessly rote.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 18, 2021The Old Ways, Halloween Horror, Netflix, Christopher Alender, Marcos Gabriel, Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julia Vera, Sal Lopez, AJ BowenComment

Halloween Horror: Unfriended (2014)

Leo Gabriadze’s found-footage horror movie about cyberbullying reinvents the slasher for the digital age.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromOctober 8, 2021Unfriended, Halloween Horror, Leo Gabriadze, Nelson Greaves, Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney Halverson, Heather SossamanComment

Thursday Rethink: Halloween Horror: Who’s Afraid of Ari Aster's Elevated Horror?

Digging deep into the thematic implications and cultural discourse around Ari Aster’s two works of elevated horror, Hereditary and Midsommar.

Features, Thursday Rethink, Halloween Horror IIAnton BergstromOctober 29, 2020Halloween Horror, Hereditary, Midsommar, Ari Aster, evil, horror, trauma, paganism, neopaganism, demons, cultural horror, elevated horrorComment

Halloween Horror: Resolution (2012)

Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead’s slow-burn horror film plays like a low-budget, earnest counterpoint to The Cabin in the Woods.

Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Reviews, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAren BergstromOctober 27, 2020Resolution, Halloween Horror, Justin Benson, Aaron Scott Moorhead, Peter Ciella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst JrComment

Halloween Horror: The Last House on the Left (1972)

Wes Craven’s controversial classic horror film uses unrefined formal techniques and realistic content to unsettle viewers and examine the horrors of bloodlust.

Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Reviews, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAren BergstromOctober 21, 2020Halloween Horror, The Last House on the Left, Wes Craven, Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David A. Hess, Fred Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, March Sheffler, Eleanor Shaw, Richard Towers, Marshall Anker, Martin KoveComment

Halloween Horror: The City of the Dead (1960)

Featuring horror legend Christopher Lee and plenty of Gothic atmosphere, this tale of witchcraft in a New England town is a spooky though backward-looking treat.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Halloween Horror IIAnders BergstromOctober 16, 2020Halloween Horror, Gothic horror, witchcraft, New England, Christopher Lee Comment

Halloween Horror: Black Sunday (1960)

Mario Bava’s official debut combines arthouse style and B-movie horror conventions to strong effect.

Halloween Horror: Halloween (2018)

David Gordon Green revives the Halloween films with this satisfying horror sequel that returns to the original’s strengths.

Reviews, Halloween Horror, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromOctober 10, 2019Halloween, Halloween Horror, horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Michael Myers, John Carpenter, slasher, diegetic reboot, David Gordon GreenComment

Halloween Horror: It Chapter Two (2019)

It Chapter Two is effective and scary if a bit muddled.

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Films of the Nightmare on Elm Street Series

Exploring all nine films in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and what makes this often scary, usually campy, and frequently bizarre horror series worth watching.