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Make My Day: “Mother’s Day” trailer

March 28, 2012 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Movies & TV Tagged With: horror movies, Mother's Day, motherhood

Scary!: The Real Women of “Paranormal Activity 3”

November 2, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Horror, Paranormal Activity, Reel Women, Women in Film,Suburbia,Southern California

Sisters: One screams; the other does, too

Here’s the second installment of my new column on AMC Filmcritic.com, THELMA ADAMS ON REEL WOMEN:

When I saw the first Paranormal Activity in 2007, I loved the haunted-condo horror. I grew up in Southern California watching The Addams Family and believing the supernatural, like the Salem Witch trials, happened to other people, in older places. We had sunshine even when the rest of the world had cloudy days.

Paranormal Activity turned that sense of suburban safety on its head. MORE

Filed Under: Essay, Movies & TV Tagged With: horror movies, Paranormal Activity 3, Southern California, Suburbia, Women in Film

Review: Insidious

March 31, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Rose Byrne, Damages,Paranormal Activity,Patrick Wilson,Little Children,Barbara Hershey,Black Swan,Paranormal Activity,Psychic Horror,Lightbulbs Exploding, Astral Projection

Byrne (left), Wilson see dead people.

Us Rating: ***

When a cute couple (Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson) move into an old house, their eldest son bonks his head in the attic and becomes comatose. Then it gets weirder: Demons pace the floors at night, voices mumble on the baby monitor and a bloody handprint appears on the kid’s sheets. Recalling Paranormal Activity, this spooky movie chills as it brings psychic phenomena to the cozy suburbs. And with Damages‘ sympathetic Byrne as a gripping lead, the audience suspends disbelief — and jumps! — until the final plot twist.

Filed Under: Criticism, Movies & TV Tagged With: Astral Projection, Damages, horror movies, Insidious, Little Children, Patrick Wilson, Psychic Activity, Psychics, Rose Byrne

Review: Let Me In

October 5, 2010 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Us rating: ***

This dark, emotionally devastating horror flick (a keen adaptation of a cult 2008 Swedish film) pairs a tween vampire (Chloe Grace Moretz) and a bullied loner (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Part Romeo and Juliet, part supernatural seduction, the movie follows the miserable boy — struggling for acceptance in school and ignored at home — as he develops a crush on the blood-sucking immortal. 

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Filed Under: Criticism Tagged With: Chloe Moretz, horror movies, movie reviews, Scandinavian mystery, Us Weekly, vampires

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