The Awakening is a haunted house film told from the perspective of a skeptic. Florence Cathcart is England’s leading paranormal investigator, debunking the schemes of spiritualists and delusions of regular people alike. In 1921, she is invited to a boarding school where the boys claim to see a ghost. A death happened on school grounds during the fall session and Cathcart is believed to be the last hope to ensure any students return for the spring.
Writer/director Nick Murphy and screenwriter Stephen Volk hit on a pleasing combination of Gothic storytelling and 1970s/80s Hammer pictures. Everything in The Awakening doesn’t quite make sense but it doesn’t have to because it sells you on the merits of Florence Cathcart and the principle conflict before it loses meaning. The sprawling school, formerly a mansion, is filled with Victorian decadence long-forgotten by the contemporary cast members. This alone justifies the moments that don’t have logical explanations. If the characters don’t even understand where they are, why should the audience understand everything that happens?
Metallica: Through the Never tries something very unusual for a modern concert film. The band members worked with writer/director Nimród Antal to develop an original story set to their set list to play out during the live concert footage. Dane DeHaan plays Trip, a young roadie sent on an important mission during the concert to retrieve an item for the band. What he wanders into is a world strewn in chaos. It’s as if the music of the band has altered reality, creating riots and nightmarish monsters on every corner. It’s an intriguing concept that breaks up the concert footage very well.
If anyone could make a sensible adaptation out of David Wong’s bizarro horror/comedy novel 
Sometimes more is better. And sometimes more is just more.
This week on Face Off, the remaining makeup artists had to recreate a classic Halloween costume–a vampire, a skeleton, a devil, a clown, or a scarecrow–with some kind of special effects trick. This was an amazing challenge that inspired me to make one of my favorite props ever on 
In all my years of suggesting free computer games through Play It, I’ve never suggested a game that you had to download to play. I wanted a certain level of convenience to the feature. It’s always been browser games that you could click over to immediately.
Grace is the supervisor of the day staff at a foster care facility. She’s her live-in boyfriend’s boss and uses the strength of their relationship to best suit the needs of the young people under her care. When a new foster girl named Jayden digs up memories of her own troubled past, Grace struggles to find the balance between compassion and professionalism in her career.
Warning: this review contains spoilers. There’s a big issue I need to discuss and the only way to get at it and how it embodies the biggest flaw of Insidious: Chapter 2 is to discuss one of the major reveals of the film.