It takes almost half the film to figure out if Justin Dec’s directorial debut, “Countdown,” is seriously being serious. The film aspires to belong in the small but noteworthy horror subgenre about ...

Even the lowly jump scare can be a source of pleasure. But at its most mechanical, this least imaginative of stock devices in current horror cinema elicits less fright than annoyance — rather like a ...

Yesterday, James Wallace kicked off Mixmaster’s horror movie countdown with the stupendous slasher-flick Halloween. James mentioned that Halloween‘s impact has made it so he can’t remember the exact ...