Saint Maud’s Feminist Evolution of Body Horror Rob Salusbury October 9, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion The role of the female within horror cinema has always been a complex and hotly debated topic. Some argue that the frequent depiction of the monstrous female - most commonly realised through the figure of the...
Ma – Review Jack King May 31, 2019 Reviews There's no prerequisite suggesting that a film must have something to say for it to be good. There are plenty of brilliant movies with the density of styrofoam. The realm of the genre flick, however –...
Evolution – Review Tom Bond May 7, 2016 Reviews With her second feature, Lucile Hadžihalilović crafts a complex and unsettling body horror set on a mysterious island, inhabited only by boys and young women. The strange, symbiotic, maternal...
Short of the Week – The Nest Eddie Falvey March 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odFh5LbTPI4 Produced to accompany his recent novel Consumed, Cronenberg’s The Nest stands alone as an effective miniature thesis on destructive obsession. It observes the...
Spring – LFF Review Tom Bond October 6, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Death leads to dubious love in this endlessly inventive delight that pays no regard to traditional genre boundaries. Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead send bereaved lead Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) on...
The Unique Body Horror Of American Mary Cameron Ward January 29, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features - "She’s an artist." - Following on from the Grindhouse-inspired Dead Hooker in a Trunk, Jen and Sylvia Soska (Twisted Twins Productions)'s American Mary rejects the tired cliches of "feminist...
