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...
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...
The Unfamiliar – Review Sophie Maxwell September 11, 2020 Reviews In British horror The Unfamiliar, Army doctor Izzy (Jemima West) returns from war bearing battle scars. Her home and family seem not quite right, with spooky events beginning within minutes. The film’s...
Koko-di Koko-da – Review Rob Salusbury September 6, 2020 Reviews Too exploitative to be intelligent, too repetitive to be innovative, Swedish director Johannes Nyholm’s second feature is an ambitious attempt to tackle the long-lasting effects of deep-set trauma that loses...
Detention – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 25, 2020 Reviews “As long as someone’s alive, there is always hope.” During the Cold War in 1962, Taiwan was under martial law, where those who subverted the government by speaking out about freedom or reading banned...
Why Takashi Miike’s Films Offer More Than Shock and Controversy Jack Cameron May 12, 2020 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Takashi Miike is a thrilling director who makes films that are nearly impossible to recommend. Many of his releases have been accompanied by stories of mass walkouts; of people fainting in their seats or even...
The Wretched – Review Alysha Prasad May 9, 2020 Reviews The Wretched is an indie horror from writer-directors Brett and Drew T. Pierce that dives into the supernatural events that take place during a summer. Set in a picturesque coastal town, rebellious teenager,...
Get In – Review Rob Salusbury May 2, 2020 Reviews By turns jaw-grindingly tedious and off-puttingly obnoxious, Get In spends so long trying to figure out what story it wants to tell that it's a wonder it even made it onto Netflix. Skittishly jumping between...
Should We be Nostalgic for ‘90s Nihilism? Jack Cameron April 22, 2020 Analysis, Features Cube (1997) and The Platform (2020) are both currently available to stream and make for a very interesting double bill. Both films are set in futuristic prisons, and both have very different approaches to the...
Pandemic Panic: The Best Horror Films to Distract You Right Now Rob Salusbury April 9, 2020 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Nostalgia, Opinion It doesn’t take a psychologist to realise that now might not be the best time for everyone's mental health. Global pandemics tend not to be the most calming of situations, and the recent state of lockdown...
The Lovecraft Film Wishlist Jack Cameron April 8, 2020 Analysis, Features, Maybeland Last month saw the return of director Richard Stanley with Color Out of Space. As adaptations of cult horror writer H.P.Lovecraft go it did a pretty decent job: the right amount of eldritch horror, mixed...
Color Out of Space and the New Wave of Weird Cinema Jack Cameron April 4, 2020 Analysis, Features, Love Letter, One Off, Opinion, Spotlight It's been 23 years since Richard Stanley has made a movie, but this month he returns with Color Out of Space. First, he had to convince Nicolas Cage to say yes (he did). Then he prayed to ancient alien god...
Fantasy Island – Review Alysha Prasad March 7, 2020 Reviews Fantasy Island centres around five people: Gwen, Melanie, Patrick, and brothers Brax and J.D., all of whom have won a contest to stay on Fantasy Island. They are enticed to stay by the man who runs the...
The Invisible Man – Review Phil W. Bayles February 26, 2020 Reviews It seems oddly fitting that The Invisible Man should be released mere days after the conviction of sex offender Harvey Weinstein. Once part of the ill-fated ‘Dark Universe’, now in the hands of director...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2019: #5 – Midsommar Eddie Falvey December 30, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 – 2019 has been a great year for film. As this list has illustrated and will continue to illustrate, 2019 saw bountiful returns from budding auteurs Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Greta...