8/10. If someone had told me five years ago that I’d go to the cinema to see a film about the election of a new Pope rather than a comic-book movie, I would have laughed at them, but, world wonder, it's true. Conclave is an unexpectedly gripping, atmospheric and compelling film set in the Vatican where isolated…

7/10. A decent and realistic teacher psycho drama from Germany. The protagonist is a new teacher who has just started at a new school, but soon starts stealing and becomes a target. She had a hidden camera, she knows who the culprit is! A prime example of a man wanting to get justice and solve a fairly straightforward…

A charming Egyptologist on the trail of ancient secrets and dangerous mysteries. A synopsis where you can only trust the conjunction, and Franklin J. Schaffner didn’t direct the film; he embalmed it, and not even the romantic subplot with Ahmed Dracula can save it (as one critic aptly noted, Langella had the charm of…

The psychological horror soon turns surreal, with the imprisoned psychopath murdering through others. He uses dreams and hypnosis to do this. Danny may be a good guy, but he's a moron, so when he spots Laura, the Sleeping Beauty, in the hospital and hears that she's about to become an experimental subject, he decides…

There's a monster killing in the city, and the first massacres convinced me that a xenomorph had jumped in. Too bad they showed its form afterwards. It had a leaky tongue instead of a second set of jaws, but otherwise the inspiration, including the slime, was clear, and I quite like it. Also, there's one nice…

Richard Harwell teaches a seminar at the University on the greatest murderers in history and their portrayal in films and the first is the famous Jack the Ripper. When he spots his ring in an antique shop, he tries to get it. Through it, he has terrifying dreams, nightmares, and the next day discovers that the dream…

A slasher film cut with witch horror, where the latter is unfortunately just a harmless ritual in the woods. A killer ambushes female students, butchers them with a meat cleaver and takes a part of each. The goal is to assemble a new creature, something like Frankenstein did, to be sacrificed to the Devil,…

For those in the know, probably the majority, two thirds of the film is a repeat of what happened with Cinderella. Decent visuals, stupid Cinderella. Cinderella's an idiot, her stepmother and her sisters are harpies. Help from the fairy is problematic because Cinderella somehow can't bring herself to take revenge. And…

This significantly weaker continuation of the unattainable cult classic could have been shorter. It has some nice scenes, but the murders are too restrained this time. The best are the elevator, the truck and the opening scene in the underground. Jerry Goldsmith's music is again excellent, though in the scenes where…

This ecological monster horror has most of the clichés that one can expect from such films. The monster is shown gradually, as we already know from Jaws or Alien, an American company that built a factory in Colombia, the monster was born in a lake from its sewage (probably, because frankly it's not), and they try to…