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Mike Thorn

Mike Thorn's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Noise (2024) 67% EDIT “Noise crucially lacks a sense of accumulating tension. Its first act effectively establishes a sense of unknowable dread, but the film quickly becomes repetitive, and then eventually stagnant.” – In Review Online Aug 12, 2025 Full Review A Girl with Closed Eyes (2024) EDIT “The third act arrives and cedes ineffectively to overwrought melodrama and tidy resolution... the lingering impression [is] that Sun-young’s film has somewhat undersold the impact of its weighty themes. ” – In Review Online Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Lilim (2025) EDIT “Red’s film is sturdily made in technical terms, but it ultimately doesn’t rise much above a mechanical exercise. ” – In Review Online Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Missing Child Videotape (2024) EDIT “Missing Child Videotape might not achieve the levels of overpowering terror promised by its premise, but it announces the emergence of a new filmmaker with serious potential.” – In Review Online Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Teki Cometh (2024) EDIT “Teki Cometh is ably shot and directed, and it features an array of solid performances... [but] the lingering effect is nothing so much as a distant sense of uninvested bewilderment.” – In Review Online Jul 12, 2025 Full Review The Black Cat (1934) 89% EDIT “While The Black Cat does not share many explicit connections with Poe's 1843 story, both texts use archetypal symbolism to explore painfully intimate experiences...” – Vague Visages Oct 10, 2024 Full Review The Canyons (2013) 21% EDIT “[It] signals prophetic visions of breakdown — in empathetic corporeality, in cinema genre legacies, and in the capitalist American psyche.” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2024 Full Review The Counselor (2013) 34% EDIT “The Counselor shows Scott’s pessimism alongside his obsessions with visual design and environment...” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Kriya (2020) 78% EDIT “Shot on a limited budget and schedule, Kriya presents an ambitious filmmaker with impressive instincts, delivering an excitingly unique vision.” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Detention (2019) EDIT “Detention recommends director John Hsu’s future efforts, but this debut effort falls mostly short of the mark.” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Midnight (2021) 100% EDIT “Midnight is a solid piece of horror escapism, but suffers from a tendency toward familiar narrative and psychological shortcuts.” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2024 Full Review The Sadness (2021) 88% EDIT “Jabbaz’s primary focus is on cartoonishly gory entertainment. The director approaches scenes of carnage with glee...” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Satan Wants You (2023) 95% EDIT “Satan Wants You’s chief achievement is that it understands its subject’s substantial sociopolitical implications and articulates them with economy and power. ” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Sayuri (2024) EDIT “Sayuri promises the gonzo genre mix-up often mastered by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Takashi Miike — while it never reaches anything near those heights, it contains plenty of indelible images and moments, and sometimes that's all a good horror movie needs.” – In Review Online Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Twixt (2011) 39% EDIT “The film’s lush, otherworldly dreamscapes foreground the theme of time by contrasting contemporary film technology against the aesthetics of Gothic pasts.” – In Review Online Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Never Let Go (2024) 57% EDIT “Despite its conceptual and formal strengths, the film fades into a peculiarly slight curiosity — a compelling, if misdirected, work of contemporary American Gothic.” – In Review Online Oct 3, 2024 Full Review The Soul Eater (2024) 80% EDIT “An elegantly rendered horror procedural with a staid, subtle performance by Ledoyen at its center. Bustillo and Maury have demonstrated once again that horror contains multitudes, and it doesn’t need to play arthouse dress-up to indicate as much.” – In Review Online Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Argento's Dracula (2012) 20% EDIT “I will not go so far as to say that I understand Dracula 3D, not even close, but I know that its sensibility effectively absorbed me. When it comes to the works of Dario Argento, that is all I have come to expect on a first viewing.” – Vague Visages Mar 25, 2024 Full Review It (2017) 85% EDIT “As an adaptation of a great 20th century novel, It completely misses the mark.” – Vague Visages Dec 12, 2023 Full Review The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018) 65% EDIT “Emerging from a preceding filmography of viciously abrasive and almost ceaselessly offensive films, The House with a Clock in Its Walls sees Roth re-examining his interest in genre cinema.” – Vague Visages Dec 12, 2023 Full Review The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 85% EDIT “Under its brutal dissembling of anthropocentrism and customary moral divides, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre points to the terror of a harsh and uncaring universe.” – Vague Visages Dec 12, 2023 Full Review Contempt (1963) 92% EDIT “Contempt is a daunting and formally labyrinthine work, calling its own fallibility to question even as it submits completely to the romance of cinema.” – Vague Visages Dec 12, 2023 Full Review My Soul to Take (2010) 11% EDIT “As the second last film in one of the great contemporary horror filmmaker’s careers, it’s an extraordinary example of artistic self-reflection and development.” – Vague Visages Dec 12, 2023 Full Review Shutter Island (2010) 69% EDIT “Shutter Island substantiates an artistic recurrence in Martin Scorsese's body of work. What is the cost to oneself of living by a system of belief?” – Vague Visages Dec 12, 2023 Full Review Silence (2016) 83% EDIT “Rodrigues commits to the preservation of his Christianity, refusing to apostatize no matter what the consequences might be.” – Vague Visages Dec 12, 2023 Full Review
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