After receiving a lot of buzz from festival circuit, You’ll Never Find Me, the debut feature from Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell arrives on Shudder. It’s a natural home for an indie horror with big ambitions and promising great things in the future for the directing duo. Set almost entirely […]
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Possessor (2020): Prestige Treatment for Gory Modern Classic (Review)
Hearing Brandon Cronenberg and various crew members discuss the production process of Possessor across the numerous features on this release, it is a miracle that the film got made and that the final result is so memorably weird and unique. Its release in 2020 during the height of Covid lockdowns […]
Doctor Jekyll (2023): Entertaining Reinterpretation of Classic Story (Review)
7 Keys (SXSW 2024): Stylish Execution of High Concept British Thriller (Review)
Receiving its world premiere at SXSW, Joy Wilkinson makes her feature film debut as writer and director with 7 Keys, having found success in theatre, television, and radio. Immediately, she shows confidence in executing her vision with the opening shots of houses and flats around London, each one tinged with […]
Custom (2024): Sexual Power Dynamics Blurred in Unsettling Debut (Glasgow Frightfest 2024)(Review)
With a tantalising teaser played during last year’s London Frightfest, Tiago Teixeira’s feature debut Custom makes its world premiere at the Glasgow edition. It centres on Harriet (Abigail Hardingham, also an associate producer) and Jasper (Rowan Polonski), a couple who have struggled to get success with their art and have […]
Deliver Us (2024): Antichrist horror sacrifices ambiguity for shock (Review)
The Peasants / Chlopi (2023): An Innovative Combination of Historical Epic and Living Painting
Following on from the success of Loving Vincent, which utilised an innovative technique of recreating frames of recorded live-action scenes as oil paintings, DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman have found a new way of exploring their unique aesthetic. The Peasants is an adaptation of Wladyslaw Reymont’s novel of the same […]
The Coffee Table (Soho Horror Fest 2023)(Review)
The Guard from Underground (1992): Kiyoshi’s Kurosawa’s Brutal Nineties Slasher (Review)
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has explored a variety of genres in a career spanning over forty years, and this release of his fourth feature, The Guard from Underground, demonstrates that his confidence in genre-hopping came early on. The film begins as a work-based drama, but gradually shifts into slasher horror as […]
Good Boy (2023): A Horror Romcom with a Nasty Bite (Review)
Following its UK premiere at Frightfest in August this year, Blue Finch Film have released the much-anticipated Good Boy on digital, and although director Viljar Bøe’s third feature dabbles in the horror genre, as with films like Audition and Fresh, it initially plays out as a typical romantic comedy until […]