André Øvredal’s Mortal does that thing where the movie starts by displaying the definition of its title. But this isn’t, like, Arbitrage or whatever. We know what the word mortal means. It’s indicative of the entire movie’s unearned, half-witted sense...
It feels petty, or at least tired, to complain about a modern monster movie’s over-reliance on fake-looking CGI. But, in the case of Andre Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the technique does more than just rob the...