I reliably watch around 300 films every year. I am set to fall a long way short of that in 2024. Over the last two months, I’ve found it hard to concentrate as I focused my energy on preparing to move out of my damp flat while chronically ill, opting […]
Reviews
Gonjiam Haunted Asylum (2018) Old School Haunted House Terror from Korea (Review)
Korean Horror is a little known entity outside of the TV format, and even though, like Japan, it has a reductive abbreviation to pack all of its horrors together in a digestible sub-genre (K-Horror), there’s no poster child, no Ringu, Cure, or Dark Water level threat. You could cite the […]
The Sacrament (2013) Ti West’s true-story Exploitation goes South (Review)
No one does genre pastiche quite like Ti West who, after working his way up from no-budget shorts to no-budget features, finally took off in 2009 with the one-two hits of a ready-made cult classic (House of the Devil), and a straight-to-video sequel (Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever). There’s an […]
The G (2023): lean, realist revenge thriller puts a welcome spotlight on Dale Dickey (Review)
The concept of “geriaction” has been around for a fair while, although not long enough for people to give it a better name. Younger audiences born around the time Liam Neeson made his first Taken movie in 2008 might be forgiven for assuming older leads are just a thing action […]
The Exorcism (2024) Russell Crowe Goes Method in Meta-horror Mix-up (Review)
Let’s get the obvious out the way first; no, The Exorcism has no connection to The Pope’s Exorcist, the uniformly-titled occult horror released only last year where Russell Crowe played an exorcist and also shares a near identical poster. In fact, this uncanny case of cinematic deja-vu is one of […]
The Crazy Family (1984) Energetic Bad-Taste Comedy Breaks down the Traditional Japanese Family Drama (Review)
The first thing you wonder when you sit down to watch a film called The Crazy Family – now released on Blu-Ray by Third Window – is how crazy are they going to be, exactly? “Crazy”, as a descriptor, can be pretty relatable: we were definitely meant to feel for Beyonce when […]
Sasquatch Sunset (2024) – An absurdist look at the fragility of life (Review)
After directing 3 episodes of the one-of-a-kind TV series The Curse, Nathan and David Zellner craft another experimental work. This time, Sasquatch Sunset unfolds in the misty forests of Northern California following a family of four Sasquatches who may be the last of their kind. Set over the course of […]
The Moor (2024) – Thick in atmosphere, thin on character (Review)
The Moor is the debut feature-film from Chris Cronin, and it stays true to the UK’s rich history of regional folk horror while making damn sure to get the most out of the locality it’s named after – specifically Yorkshire. Horror has a long history rooted in the area, from […]
Sorcery (2023): A Patient, Ethereal Addition to the Post-2010s Folk Horror Revival
There’s been quite a boom in the folk horror scene over the past decade and a half as filmmakers like Ben Wheatley, Robert Eggers, Ari Aster, Oz Perkins and Goran Stolevski have each crafted singular works within the genre. Sorcery – the latest effort from Chilean director Christopher Murray – […]
ARROW Short Films (2024) Feat. Bad Acid & Meat Friend
Having built themselves as a name in curated features and impressive physical media releases, ARROW also have a premium streaming platform that is representative of what their brand is known for. An excellent thing they do is showcase short films from exciting new talents, many of which have previously played […]