Monday, 5 February 2018 ()
*Spoiler warning: this review largely avoids specific plot spoilers for **The Cloverfield Paradox**, but it does discuss some things that **donβt** happen in the movie, which might be considered a form of spoiler too.*The best horror movies work because they evoke the things that scare us most β not specifically monsters or murderers, but universal fears like helplessness, isolation, violence, and the unknown. The smartest horror movies, though, the ones that stick with us longest, also work because their stories hold together. At the core of every great horror movie is some meaningful conflict that explains why bad things are happening, and that adds fears deeper and richer than just bump-in-the-night. Alien has its inimical corporation, willing...
