This movie is highly, highly unusual in the way that it was made, in the sense that when COVID began, it was clear that many huge Hollywood productions were on pause. I was always inspired by ...

For “District 9? director Neill Blomkamp, there was no time like the pandemic to dive into his new movie “Demonic.” The film was born out of a previous shelved project that he took up again as the ...

Back in the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, what we used to call monster movies had simple concepts and catchy, explicit titles that mirrored them. “Dracula.” “The Werewolf.” “King Kong.” “Mothra vs.

In his latest, the director Neill Blomkamp plays around with different genre elements but never figures out how to make them cohere. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

“Demonic” isn’t the comeback Neill Blomkamp had planned on, but it is the movie that the times demanded. Blomkamp, the South Africa-born and Canada-based writer and director, made a major impact in ...

Neill Blomkamp didn’t plan to spend the last year shooting the low-budget, high-tech horror movie “Demonic” around his own British Columbia home. But that’s just what the director of sci-fi films such ...

Neill Blomkamp didn’t plan to spend the last year shooting the low-budget, high-tech horror movie “Demonic” around his own British Columbia home. But that’s just what the director of sci-fi films such ...

Few directors have gone from the A-list straight to director jail as fast as South African Neill Blomkamp. He exploded on the scene in 2009 with his apartheid sci-fi allegory “District 9,” featuring ...

This week’s selection of new VOD and streaming releases is inexplicably packed to the brim with a bunch of horror. August: It’s the new Halloween. From Neil Blomkamp’s supernatural horror thriller ...