Trailers on Tap
Some of you are purists. You will not watch trailers, EVER. I get it. You close your eyes and plug your ears the first twenty minutes in the theatre. You curate meticulously your twitter feed so the simplest spoiler can be avoided. For the rest of us its Trailer Thursday. Join us each week as we look at the newest movie trailers. Prepare to be spoiled.
A Quiet Place Part II. March 20, 2020
That’s a lot of 20’s. John Krasinski is back as director as is the rest of the surviving cast. Add in a few evil humans and Cillian Murphy and now we have grander if perhaps more traditional post apocalyptic film.
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
| Starring | Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou |
| Directed By | John Krasinski |
Gretel and Hansel January 31st, 20202
The rise of Osgood Perkins. Black Coats Daughter is criminally underrated and here he seems to combine The Witch’s aesthetic with grim style fairy tale. It feels like a match made in horror heaven.
A long time ago in a distant fairytale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil
| Starring | Sophia Lillis,Sammy Leakey, Charles Babalola, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw |
| Directed By | Osgood Perkins |
A Perfect Host DVD and Digital Release February 4, 2020
A movie that seems to be lampooning Bro culture along side our growing trend for “wellness” what that might be? Yea A Perfect Host looks to be a horror comedy for 2020. Lets do this. Drop down and give me 20!
Four friends rent an isolated lake house for a weekend getaway. While the dramas of the friends’ relationships unfold, they are continually interrupted by the home’s owner: a health-obsessed bodybuilder named Tad. Throughout the group’s short stay, Tad’s seemingly affable gestures take an eerie and sinister twist, turning their dream vacation into a nightmare. Mystery entangles this tale that questions the blind acceptance of modern-day practices.
| Starring | Kasey Givens, Emily Hiott, Brady Burleson Johnson |
| Directed By | Chad Werner |
Tyler has been the editor in chief of Signal Horizon since its conception. He is also the Director of Monsters 101 at Truman State University a class that pairs horror movie criticism with survival skills to help middle and high school students learn critical thinking. When he is not watching, teaching or thinking about horror he is the Director of Debate and Forensics at a high school in Kansas City, Missouri.