Lamb – Review Sophie Maxwell December 11, 2021 Reviews María and Ingvar (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason) are an Icelandic couple living on a remote farm in the mountains. Under the midnight sun, the pair discover a strange lamb in their sheep barn, which...
Last Night in Soho – Review Tom Bond October 29, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Last Night in Soho starts shakily, with the slow establishment of Ellie’s (Thomasin McKenzie) move to...
The Djinn – Review Sophie Maxwell September 15, 2021 Reviews When twelve-year-old Dylan’s loving single father works a late shift, he leaves his mute son alone for the night in their new apartment. Upon finding a dusty old book that claims to grant your heart’s...
#Blue_Whale – Fantasia Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross August 20, 2021 Reviews In the UK, when someone googles “blue whale challenge”, the first result is a website compiling a series of suicide hotlines readily available for anyone struggling with feelings of self-harm. This...
Fried Barry – Review Alysha Prasad May 8, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in August 2020 as part of our Fantasia Festival coverage. Barry (Gary Green), an abusive drug-addict, is on yet another bender after an argument with his wife. After...
Violation – Review Daniel Theophanous March 26, 2021 Reviews Content warning: this film includes themes of rape and sexual assault. The rape-revenge genre has of late been befittingly seized by the narrative of the survivor seeking vengeance themselves. There have...
Shook – Review Sophie Maxwell February 17, 2021 Reviews Shook follows social media influencer Mia, who becomes the pawn in a terrifying online campaign of manipulation and tests while babysitting her sister’s dog. Mia (Daisye Tutor) sacrifices a night...
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad February 1, 2021 Reviews What would it feel like to be transported into a horror movie? Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair introduces us to an online role-playing horror game that’s gone viral. Teenager...
The Queen of Black Magic – Review Scott Wilson January 29, 2021 Reviews This delightfully creepy Indonesian horror has real drama and depth. Beneath the surface of the familiar setting (a group of people gather in a remote location, no working telephone) is the weight of...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2020: #5 – The Lighthouse Louise Burrell December 29, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Mermaids, one-eyed seagulls, and glimpses of sea monsters; Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is anything but a mainstream horror. This undeniably weird film landed in the UK in the “normal” part of 2020,...
Why Suspiria Still Has The Perfect Horror Opening Sequence Joseph Bullock December 28, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Watch the opening sequence of Suspiria here: part 1 & part 2 A masterpiece of the genre, and certainly the most famous Italian example, Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) remains a uniquely haunting...
Ten Unforgettable Films That Have Haunted Us Since Childhood Tom Bond December 23, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The greatest films linger in your memory long after the credits have rolled, but there’s a particular power to those we watch as children: impressionable young minds latching onto striking images and twisted...
Murder Me, Monster – Review Tom Bond December 4, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2018 as part of our Cannes Festival coverage. Argentinian writer-director Alejandro Fadel doesn’t pull any punches in his ghoulish and gory horror, Murder Me,...
Relic – Review Rob Salusbury November 1, 2020 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival 2020 coverage. Playing out like a particularly morbid episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, the Australia-set Relic digs into a...
Rose: A Love Story – LFF 2020 Review Fatima Sheriff October 15, 2020 Reviews Vampires are well-loved by storytellers, from Dracula to Twilight to What We Do in the Shadows; each has left their mark. Enter Rose, Sophie Rundle’s titular character, who lives alone with her human husband...