“When I was a kid all I wanted to do was be a cop,” says Los Angeles Police Department officer Ethan Hawkins (Justin Long) a few minutes into Ryan Prows’ Night Patrol. His words are ironised in multiple ways: firstly, because they echo the opening words delivered by Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in Martin Scorsese’s…
Sue Parker (Willa Holland) tends bar in a small college town in North Louisiana. Here class divisions are demarcated by the river running through the town centre, with massive shoreline mansions on one side and trailers on the other. As Sue states in the voiceover which opens The Dirty South, this Bible Belt community is…
Insidious: Chapter 3 first published by TheHorrorShow This may be the first instalment in the Insidious franchise that is a formal prequel, but in fact the whole Insidious series has been fixated on the past. The 2010 original and the 2013 sequel concerned the Lambert family, moving house to leave past troubles behind them and hoping…