Warning: This review may contain, what are considered by some, spoilers. Credit: Pixabay.com In last week’s post I said that Steven Spielberg isn’t a horror director and so that the first Jurassic Park movie did not have the degree of horror as did Michael Crichton’s book of the same name. And I don’t think Spielberg is any more a director of horror movies today than he was when he made the first Jurassic Park film. However, the latest of the Jurassic Park films, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom , which I saw last weekend, contains a lot more of the horror element than probably any of the other sequels, even more than the original novel. Believe it or not, it has a gothic theme to it. How much more horror can a science fiction film such as that get? Although the movie starts off with an expedition on Isla Nublar, the island that the din o saur “ theme park” was re- built on but then destroyed in the previous installment , it soon enough moves to the estate of a...
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