Movie Review: “THE ASTRONAUT” doesn’t stick the landing
A scientifically oriented variation on the old story of a character who won’t get out of a haunted house while the getting is good.
A scientifically oriented variation on the old story of a character who won’t get out of a haunted house while the getting is good.
It very successfully gives the audience more of what they loved about the original while respecting its characters enough to further explore their troubled states of mind.
The found-footage subgenre gets the nightmarish shot in the arm it has long needed.
Even with its problems, VICIOUS is further confirmation of Bertino’s skill at tightening the screws on both his protagonists and his audiences.
It's a by now familiar but still effectively elemental survival situation, one that Roache-Turner wrings for both interpersonal tension and toothy thrills.