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The Wicked – Review

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...
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The Visit – Review

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...
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Top 10 Vampire Movies

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...
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It Follows – Review

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...
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Horns – Review

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...
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Hungry Hearts – LFF Review

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)...
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White God – LFF Review

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...
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Shrew’s Nest – LFF Review

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...
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Spring – LFF Review

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...
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Honeymoon – Review

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...
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The Babadook – Review

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...