Elle (2016)
ELLE (2016) Directed by Paul Verhoeven Given that’s he’s best known for Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers and Robocop, a small scale black comedy about a woman recovering from trauma may seem a strange choice for […]
ELLE (2016) Directed by Paul Verhoeven Given that’s he’s best known for Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers and Robocop, a small scale black comedy about a woman recovering from trauma may seem a strange choice for […]
A CURE FOR WELLNESS (2017) Directed by Gore Verbinski Given the stresses of Wall Street, you’d think Mr Lockhart (DeHaan) would be glad to get away from it all, retreating to a relaxed hydrotherapy clinic […]
TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR (2017) Directed by Richard Mundy If, like many others, you took to social media and said 2016 was the worst year ever then just wait ‘til you learn about 2024. Then, the world’s […]
RINGS (2017) Directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez A flick of static, swarms of flies and lots of long black hair. Yes, Samara has returned! After a 12 year hiatus (during which time 3 Japanese sequels were made) […]
One of the moments I fell in love with horror was watching The Ring at the cinema – few moments made me fear the director like the false sense of security before Samara bursts out […]
Given that one of my formative horror experiences was watching the original Blair Witch Project at the cinema, I can’t tell you just how mixed I felt about seeing another sequel. Sure, it couldn’t be […]
THE CHAMBER (2016) Directed by Ben Parker Nothing helps make a horror scary like a good no way out scenario: people trapped in with each other with and an ever-increasing threat. So how about no […]
SPLIT (2016) Directed by M Night Shyamalan Back in 2010 a video went viral of an audience laughing as M Night Shyamalan’s name came onscreen. Fresh off the back of his evil plants epic The […]
AGATHA (2016) Directed by Timothy Vandenburg One of the joys of going to horror film festivals is seeing the shorts between movies. Although tricky to do well, when they are they can be very rewarding […]
How time flies! It’s amazing to think Donnie Darko is now 15 years old. That means if the film were a person they’d be old enough to undergo the usual growing pains of their voice […]
DONNIE DARKO 4K restoration (2016) Directed by Richard Kelly This feature contains heavy spoilers for Donnie Darko It doesn’t feel like 15 years since Donnie Darko came out. I mean, that’s gotta make you feel […]
CREEPY (2016) Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa To give a film this name requires confidence. Like fellow Asian chiller Grotesque, it’s not just a catchy blurb but a statement of intent. It’s this assurance that makes the […]
There’s no getting round it: if you were at school with Nathan Ambrosioni you’d hate him. Not because he’s a bad guy at all – on the contrary, he’s a very affable chap, and good […]
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER Directed by Billy O’Brien About a decade ago I was channel surfing at night, when I caught a cool rural Irish movie called Isolation. It was an atmospheric Alien-like […]
London’s a city of 8 million – bound to be a few people that like horror. So goes the logic of the London Horror Society: a platform fans and filmmakers alike. Though still in its […]
OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL Directed by Mike Flanagan In our early teens, my buddies and I made Ouija boards out of paper and stayed up ‘til the early hours thinking we were nattering away to […]
* Warning: this article contains large spoilers for Scream seasons 1 and 2 * I like scary movies. I also like scary TV. With Hannibal, Bates Motel, From Dusk Til Dawn and The Exorcist recently […]
TRAIN TO BUSAN Directed by Sang-ho Yeon There’s an unwritten rule among reviewers that you never say a film’s the “best” at something. There’s simply too many factors to quantify it: when it was made, the budget […]
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