John Dies at the End, the new horror comedy by director Don Coscarelli, is based on a popular, somewhat lengthy novel, and if you hadn’t known that, you probably could have guessed based on the film’s content. While a good amount of what’s in the movie is well executed, the film leaves out so many…

[Originally published at TheCelebrityCafe.com] These days, too many horror movies simply function as scare machines, written and directed to generate as many jumps as possible but without as much regard to characters or storyline. For this reason, I loved Scott Derickson’s Sinister, released this past October, for being a genuinely compelling mystery and crime drama…