A trope of the 90s thriller was born out of films like Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Misery and the like – films that turned possessive women into vehicles for violent thrillers. Moving the goalposts away from that idea for a moment, many directors use the model of taking an […]
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Host of the Uncut Network. With a love of movies kicked off by Hong Kong Action and Claymation Monsters, Rob has forever been cradled in the bosom of Cinema. Rob has his hands in many a pie, including no budget film making. Filthy
Saint Maud (2019) the incredible morphing empathy of psychological seaside horror (Review)
If you walk down the DVD aisle of your local supermarket, it’ll become unavoidably apparent how weak the modern British Horror scene is. Gone are the stalwarts of Amicus and Hammer, and in their place is an ocean of low-budget identikit slashers/demon in the woods films. Surprise it is then […]
Synchronic (2019) Some of Benson & Moorhead’s best work (Review)
Since they announced their arrival with a bang in 2012 with Resolution, Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson have been two of the more captivating talents on the independent genre circuit. They followed that up with Spring and Resolution quasi-sequel, The Endless. In 2021 (debuting in America in 2019), the director […]
12 Hour Shift (2020) Another Bettis Star Turn (Review)
Frightfest Presents returns in 2021 to release a smaller title that played a previous Festival, this time it’s the turn of actor/sophomore director, Brea Grant and her Crime Thriller/Comedy Horror, 12 Hour Shift. Grant made her name as an actor who works within the American indie horror scene, a highlight, […]
Inner Sanctum Mysteries (1943/45) Campy 1940s Murder Melodrama’s (Review)
Podcasting just does not get the credit it deserves, it removed the barriers to provide a platform for the everyman to broadcast around the globe. Let’s just ignore the fact the industry has been diminished by overexposure and broadcasting giants like the BBC getting involved making it very difficult for […]
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Authoritarian Italian Gonzo Satire with a musical score from the Heavens (Review)
Italian cinema isn’t much to write about these days, their industry fell to pieces in the 90s which isn’t just a shame its downright criminal that a national cinema full of eccentrics, innovators and masters could go the way of the dodo. The same sentiment can be shared by the […]
Possessor (2020) Escaping the Shadow of Horror Royalty (Review)
Brandon Cronenberg, son of David, burst onto the scene in 2012 with Antiviral – a film very much cut from the cloth of his father’s most celebrated era that saw Cronenberg Sr. crowned as the undisputed king of body horror. One of the major criticisms of that earlier output was […]
Five Easy Pieces (1970) New Hollywood Icon where Jack Nicholson peels back the Persona (Review)
At the peak of his powers in the 1970s and 80s, they where few actors who could touch Jack Nicholson. Looking at his run of films, it’s no surprise he has gone done as one of the greatest American actors of any generation. We have Five Easy Pieces (Out now […]
The Strangers (2008) One performance shy of the Modern Answer to Home Invasion Movies (Review)
Is horror, as a conglomerate of sub-genres, scary? Even as a fully signed up fan, I’d have to say no. Monster, both scientific and supernatural, have a distance to them, they don’t dig deep into the part of the subconscious where it becomes impossible to turn off as you can […]
Melancholic (2018) Darkly Hilarious Romantic Dramedy with added Yakuza violence
Before launching into Third Window Films latest release in Seiji Tanaka’s Melancholic – allow me the indulgence of explaining what made me fall in love with East Asian cinema. Japanese, Chinese and Korean cinema take scant regard for tone or even genre, its much more common in that part of […]