The Wicked – Review Andrew Daley October 31, 2015 Reviews There’s a rumoured witch in the office, the introvert who ruthlessly bullies her co-workers. Park Ju-hui takes centre stage in Yoo Young-sun’s The Wicked, dramatic performances oozing tension and...
The Visit – Review Cameron Ward September 12, 2015 Reviews While The Visit doesn't completely see a return to form for Shyamalan, it's certainly a welcome step in the right direction. The Visit cleverly hybridises generic and formal expectations, relying on the...
Lord of Misrule: A Personal Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Daniel Orton June 14, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight The last of his kind. That was how Tim Burton described Sir Christopher Lee last week after the actor passed away at the age of 93. Of course, it is perhaps fair to say that Sir Christopher was the only one of...
Top 10 Vampire Movies Conor Morgan May 20, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 With the release of the fantastic Iranian vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night finally coming to the UK on May 22nd, it’s high time we took a look at ten of the best vampire films for you to sink...
It Follows – Review Janz Anton-Iago February 24, 2015 Reviews Suburban paranoia gets an anxious new neighbour in David Robert Mitchell's stylishly mounted teen horror It Follows, which is essentially Nightmare on Elm Street dressed as a daydream. Here, the bored yet...
Short of the Week – He Took His Skin Off For Me Cameron Ward January 19, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 1 Comment https://vimeo.com/116498390 If you love something, flay it free. Based on the short story by fellow graduate Maria Hummer, Ben Aston’s visually stunning graduation film, He Took His Skin Off For Me,...
Short of the Week – Abe Cameron Ward December 1, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/64114843 Rob McLellan’s 8 minute exploration of cold obsession under the chilling light of self-awareness finds new material for the affectionate sociopath, chillingly augmenting the...
Horns – Review Stephen O'Nion November 3, 2014 Reviews 2014 is a damned fine year for Daniel Radcliffe, and Horns a damned fine outing (“witty” emphasis on "damned"). Initially playing as a cross between The Invention of Lying and Bill’s New Frock, as...
Hungry Hearts – LFF Review Tom Bond October 17, 2014 Reviews Is it possible to love not too little but too well? This is the question posed by Saverio Costanzo’s incisive and inquisitive script that follows the battle of wills as Jude (Driver) and Mina (Rohrwacher)...
White God – LFF Review Danielle Davenport October 10, 2014 Reviews White God is an intrepid and incisive thriller. Blisteringly beautiful, brutal and bizarre, it achieves the intimacy and meticulousness essential to crystallize unspoken communication and potent...
Shrew’s Nest – LFF Review Tom Bond October 9, 2014 Reviews Shrew’s Nest is a shrieking bloody mess of a film that just about clings onto enough sanity to tell a compelling and sinister story. Montse (Gómez) is too afraid to leave her house and when an injured...
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...
Honeymoon – Review Stephen O'Nion September 29, 2014 Reviews Declining to note that honeymooning at an isolated cabin in the woods - “we’re gonna have the whole place to ourselves” - is asking for trouble, Honeymoon soon passes its table-setting cliché and...
The Babadook – Review Tom Bond September 23, 2014 Reviews Even for the occasional horror fan, The Babadook feels far too full of the usual clichés: a troubled child, a distressed (bereaved) mother and - what’s that? A haunted house? Writer and director Jennifer...
A Love Letter To… Drag Me To Hell Andy J Smith June 24, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “We will meet again.” - And with these four words begins the unraveling of one of the best horror films of the last decade. In 2009 Sam Raimi returned to his wonderful, exciting and scintillating Evil...