Scream: Season Two

Review by CJ

Director:
Brian Dannelly, Scott Speer, Jamie Travis, Daniel Stamm, Oz Scott, E.L. Katz, Rodman Flender, Gil Kenan, Leigh Janiak, Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer, Patrick Lussier

Writer:
Kevin Williamson (based on the film series created by), Jill Blotevogel, Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Michael Gans, Richard Register, Meredith Glynn, Brian Sieve, Anna Christopher, Heath Corson, Steve Yockey, Eoghan O’Donnell

Starring:
Willa Fitzgerald, Bex Taylor-Klaus, John Karna, Carlson Young, Amadeus Serafini, Kiana Ledé, Santiago Segura, Tracy Middendorf, Anthony Ruivivar, Tom Maden, Bryan Batt, Sean Grandillo

Other notable appearances:
Tom Everett Scott, Sosie Bacon

Running time:
39-43 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
12 + a two-part Halloween special

 

The town of Lakewood is on-track to normality after the events in season one of Scream, until the killer’s partner appears to finish what was started.  

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The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker (2017)

Review by CJ

Page count:
480

ISBN:
9780008217006

 

Chicago Detective Sam Porter has spent half a decade chasing down the Four Monkey Killer, AKA the 4MK, a brilliant and sadistic killer who uses murder to punish those closest to his victims. Can Porter save the 4MK’s latest victim in time or will evil once again be done?

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The Mummy (2017)

Review by CJ

Director:
Alex Kurtzman

Starring:
Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, Jake Johnson

Running time:
110 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Van Helsing, An American Werewolf in London

 

When Nick Morton (Cruise) stumbles upon an ancient tomb in the desert, he thinks he has hit pay dirt. Instead, Nick discovers he has awakened an ancient evil that will stop at nothing to resurrect a far more ancient and far more evil being.

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The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne (2017)

Review by CJ

Page count:
320

ISBN:
9780735213005

 

When the child abductor, rapist and murderer known as the Marsh King escapes from his maximum security prison, it throws Helena’s world upside down.

Helena’s husband and daughters don’t know that Helena is the Marsh King’s daughter; that Helena was born two years into her mother’s 14 year captivity; or that Helena is the only person who can out hunt, out track and outsmart the Marsh King. But the Marsh King knows … and he’s coming home.

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Silent Hill (2006)

Review by CJ

Director:
Christophe Gans

Starring:
Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Jodelle Ferland, Sean Bean, Alice Krige, Deborah Kara Unger

Other notable appearances:
Kim Coates, Tanya Allen

Running time:
125 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Mist, Ghost Ship, Mirrors

 

Rose (Mitchell) and her adopted daughter Sharon (Ferland) go to the abandoned town of Silent Hill to uncover the cause of Sharon’s nightmares and sleepwalking. What they find is a town far more sinister than either of them could have imagined.

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