A horror version of “Fantasy Island,” frankly, sounds more interesting than a conventional reboot, which explains why Sony would hand the keys to Blumhouse, the reigning maestro of that genre, and let them run with it. That seed of potential, however, sails away on a tide of numbing stupidity.

At risk of putting too fine a point on it, “Fantasy Island” is pretty much everything that’s wrong with contemporary commercial moviemaking.

A late-’70s TV show that hardly needed another reboot gets a horror-movie overhaul from the producer of 'Paranormal Activity.'

Against all odds, the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie wasn’t even this week’s most desperate attempt to bring an old brand into multiplexes.

The horror adaptation of the cheesy ‘70s series, directed by Jeff Wadlow and produced by genre king Jason Blum, is all concept, no execution. It’s really too bad.

Blumhouse revives the '70s TV series for a tropical horror thriller. Read the Empire review.

Reimagining the '70s TV show as a horror movie is a clever idea, but the scares here aren't very scary. Fortunately, Michael Peña is clearly having a blast.

Jeff Wadlow directs 'Fantasy Island,' another big-screen adaptation of a nearly forgotten TV series.

If you dug even a little into its mystical tropical paradise, its enigmatic, white-clad proprietor and his dream-seeking clientele, it was easy to find somethin

It isn’t particularly scary, but Blumhouse is more about hooks than real horror

Blumhouse movie explains the island's powers too much, and not enough, and that's no fun

A tropical getaway becomes a waking nightmare for its hapless guests in this dire reboot of the ’70s TV show, from director Jeff Wadlow.

Retooling the late ’70s/early ’80s ABC prime-time staple “Fantasy Island” as a sinister gotcha! outing isn’t a bad idea.That’s the wheel. The spokes are everything else, and most everything else about the new horror movie, from the Blumhouse crew and director Jeff Wadlow, is not good. Four intertwining fantasies, four stories’ worth of lame ideas, […]

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