Movies with screenplay written by Christopher Landon
How do you get a werewolf movie to earn a PG-13 rating? Turn it into a Harlequin romance. Actually, Blood and Chocolate still shows signs of neutering but what has been toned down to get the teen-friendly classification is the sex and nudity not ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-01-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR/ROMANCE
Director: Katja von Garnier
Cast: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, ...
Disturbia is a nice little mystery thriller that takes a wrong turn on the way to its climax and morphs into a slasher movie. This abrupt change in tone is as jarring as it is unwelcome and transforms what could have been an effectively tense conc...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-04-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: D. J. Caruso
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, ...
Blumhouse has an uncanny ability to identify projects that sound compelling on paper but are less attractive when watched on-screen. Freaky is the latest of these. Originally dubbed Freaky Friday the 13th, the movie weds traditional slasher fi...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-11-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Christopher Landon
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran, ...
Put Happy Death Day 2U together with its predecessor, Happy Death Day, and you could easily call the pair Dumb and Dumber. Whatever pleasures this comedy-tinged horror/thriller may have to offer, coherence and intelligence aren’t among them....
U.S. Release Date: 2019-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror
Director: Christopher Landon
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, ...
Heart Eyes almost does it. It arrives with enormous ambitions and comes damn close to nailing it. Yet, even though it doesn’t fully deliver what the filmmakers attempt, it nevertheless provides a fun 90-odd minutes whose beats are like that of a...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-02-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror/Romance/Comedy
Director: Josh Ruben
Cast: Olivia Holt, Mason Gooding, Gigi Zumbado, ...
They could have called this Paranormal Inactivity. It's a rare horror franchise indeed that manages to remain fresh and creepy by the time it arrives at installment #4. Paranormal Activity, despite a terrific beginning, quickly grew stale and r...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-10-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Cast: Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Katie Featherstone
For nearly as long as there have been horror movies, filmmakers have had fun trolling the genre. The first “official” such entry was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein but that offbeat film, which featured many of the sanctioned Universal M...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-09-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Christopher Landon
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, ...