Sean Patrick
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Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.
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Movie Review: 'Get Gone'
Get Gone features modern horror icon Lin Shaye as the matriarch of a family of murderers. Mama, as Shaye's character is called, once found herself visiting the woods and deciding to stay after meeting a Fish and Game Ranger named Don Maxwell (Robert Miano). It's vaguely implied that Mama was kidnapped but the movie doesn't linger on this point.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Happy Death Day 2 U' A Solid Follow Up to Clever Original
Happy Death Day was a breath of fresh, comic, air in the horror genre in 2017 and because it was a financial success, as well as a critical success, we knew a sequel was coming. That sequel arrived two years later under the title Happy Death Day 2U. The cast returns with Jessica Rothe back in the lead role as Tree Gelbman, a woman who survived being trapped in a deathly time loop.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'A.M.I' Is Better than 'Jexi'
I can say this for the new phone based slasher movie A.M.I: It's better than the equally phone obsessed nationwide theatrical release, Jexi. A.M.I is a courageous, artistically limited new horror movie that recently debuted on Netflix, timed to coincide, I assume, with the release of the Adam Devine comedy Jexi. Both films are about young people whose phone is related to their parental issues.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Artik' is Another Good Shocker from Dread Central
There is something both old school and incredibly modern about Artik, the latest low-budget horror surprise from the good folks at Dread Central. The film posits a serial killer with influences that reflect both comic books and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's a strange, off-kilter mix of influences anchored by lead performances that bring those influences to bear.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Ready or Not' Is One of the Best Surprises of 2019
Ready or Not stars Samara Weaving as Grace, a soon to be married woman. Grace is marrying Alex (Mark O'Brien) and marrying into Alex's incredibly rich family, the Le Domas family. The Le Domas Family are an odd group of gin soaked alpha males and domineering women who do not welcome outsiders with ease.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Hoax' Shows Dread Central as the Home of Modern Drive-In Horror
A group of attractive young people are getting horny and high in the woods, as one of them begins to tell a campfire story. As the group splits into couples to indulge in their attractive young people-ness, a rumble emerges from the forest. The rumble becomes a roar, and our pretty storyteller is dispatched.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Top 5 Funniest Cursed Items in 'Annabelle Comes Home'
Annabelle Comes Home is winding down its theatrical run after just over a month on the big screen and a successful run at the box office. The latest film in what I have personally dubbed the 'Conjuring-verse,' patent pending, Annabelle Comes Home has brought in over $70 million dollars domestically and more than $200 million dollars worldwide off a production budget reportedly less than $20 million dollars.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Crawl'
Crawl stars Kaya Scoledario as Haley, a college student in Florida. Haley is at the University of Florida on a swimming scholarship, and she's struggling. Haley's times are slowing down, and she's worried that she may lose her scholarship. Haley receives a Facetime call from her sister, Beth (Morfydd Clark) asking her about a hurricane that is hovering over Florida.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'The Virgin Spring', 'The Divine Comedy' and The Seven Deadly Sins
The classic on this week's episode of the Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast is Ingmar Bergman's remarkable 1960 revenge film, The Virgin Spring. Mainstream audiences know The Virgin Spring as the movie that famously inspired Wes Craven to make his violent, mysoginist, hateful, horror debut The Last House on the Left.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Midsommar' Is the Best Movie of 2019
Midsommar absolutely wrecked me. Writer-director Ari Aster is a visionary artist, and his vision here is among the most disquieting and disturbing that this reviewer has seen since, no joke, Cannibal Holocaust. I have a controversial opinion of Cannibal Holocaust, I think it is rather brilliant. I have long thought of how amazing it would be to see a great director take on such challenging material. Ari Aster has done that, he’s taken highly subversive ideas and imagery, and applied a master's eye to them, and the result is a stunning work.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Annabelle Comes Home' Relies on Too Many Jump Scares
Annabelle Comes Home is a unique dichotomy. This is arguably the best that The Conjuring franchise has delivered thus far in terms of tension and intentions and yet, it’s still not very good. Despite offering better characters and a tiny bit more rationale for why villainous ghosts and demons act as they do, Annabelle Comes Home still fails due to an over-reliance on jump scares and a lack of ambition in storytelling.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Dead Don't Die' Fumbles as Zombie Satire
The classic Simpsons headline gag turned meme “Old Man Yells at Cloud” comes to mind rather often for me. I used to admonish myself and call out others who fruitlessly rage in no particular direction, hitting no targets and just generally being misguided. "Old man yells at cloud" is a solid description for writer-director Jim Jarmusch and his new movie The Dead Don’t Die. As written by Jarmusch, The Dead Don’t Die rages satirically against millennial's and consumer culture and iPhones, with no particular direction to the rage.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
