Boo!  Being a high school junior is scary enough. Both of us are already buried in the stress of chasing colleges, passing our classes and maintaining our memberships in numerous clubs and groups at Mill Valley. However, these fears aren’t enough for us, so we would like to proudly introduce our weekly horror movie review column: ‘Friday Night Fright.’ In this column released every Frida...

This week we watched the 1982 thriller “Poltergeist,” written by Steven Spielberg. The film features the Freeling family in California as they attempt to rescue their daughter from a mysterious supernatural force.  Fright Factor: How scary was the movie?  Rating: 2/5 Molly Smith: Flash back to 2012, a living image of the leading child, Carol Ann, looks up at the television screen wi...

Welcome back to Friday Night Fright! This Friday the 13th is quite the occasion. The full moon rises today, and it will not rise on another Friday the 13th until 2049. Last week our goal was to see “IT: Chapter Two” at the Thursday night premiere. Tickets in hand, we arrived at the local B&B Theaters at 4:50 p.m. Thursday. In line for popcorn, the cashier offered to rip our tickets the...

Welcome back to another week of Friday Night Frights! This week, after much deliberation and a few changes of plans, we decided to watch a James Wan’s horror movie starring Patrick Wilson and featuring a haunted family — and it wasn’t “Insidious” (2010). Instead, we watched “The Conjuring” (2013), a film featuring a medley of classic horror tropes: a haunted doll, an evil witch, a po...

This week, we reviewed “The Blair Witch Project,” a mockumentary that follows three film students as they attempt to tell the story of the Blair Witch. Their documentary goes off the rails after they get lost and have to experience the Blair Witch firsthand. This film is known for two things: grossing almost $250 million at the box office on only a $60,000 budget, and bringing the found foo...

This week we reviewed director and writer Ari Aster’s debut film “Hereditary” (2018). The horror film, based in an underlying cult theme, can be confusing in the first watch for viewers. Only after really understanding the film we were able to thoughtfully review the movie.  In its most basic form, the story is about the Graham family, which ties to the supernatural via a cult which worship...

This week we watched yet another Stephen King film, “The Shining” (1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick.  The classic horror film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, tells the story of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) taking his family on a journey to Overlook Hotel in Colorado for the winter. Jack’s position is to look out for the hotel in its off-season, making for a tedious 5 months for him to ...

This week we watched the most recent Jordan Peele movie, titled “Us.”  SEMI-SPOILERS! The 2019 film explains the story of Adelaide and her family encountering and battling the doppelgangers that she had been sensing a visit from for years.  In a confrontation between both the “good” and “evil” versions of Adelaide, a secret buried for decades is dug up, shocking the audience, her family...

This week, we watched the slasher horror film Scream (1996), directed by Wes Craven.  The classic 90s film takes place at a high school in Woodsboro, California. The story follows its protagonist Sidney as she and her friends get chased by a masked ghost that has committed other murders around their town. Suspiciously enough, this chain of events occurs around the same time as the anniversary of...

For this chilling Thursday Halloween evening, we watched the classic 1978 movie “Halloween.”  If you are interested in what the film is about, Molly references the storyline (with spoilers) in her section of the plot rating. There isn’t much of note going on  — just a pretty traditional “killer escapes asylum, stalks and murders teenage babysitters” horror flick. Without further ad...

This week we reviewed the thriller mystery “As Above, So Below”(2014). The film, accessible via Netflix, follows Archaeologist Scarlett Marlowe in her Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider adventures through the catacombs in France in search of Nicolas Flamel’s philosopher's stone. Through the first person point of view style, Marlowe and her crew descend deep into the catacombs, each seemingly going through th...

Welcome back (finally) to Friday Night Fright! This week, we watched 2017 horror film “Get Out,” Jordan Peele’s first film as a director. In the film, black protagonist Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is dragged by his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to meet her family. (SPOILERS) Chris suspects something is off about the weird behavior of Rose’s white relatives, and his suspicion is confirme...