HCF Reviews
STOMACH (2019)
UK Release Date – TBC With a strange title and a striking poster Alex Visani’s Stomach promises a lot. Both suggest all kinds of body horror imagery and subconscious desires. Does it ever deliver on […]
Year Made: 2019
Drama
KOKO-DI KOKO-DA (2019)
KOKO-DI KOKO-DA (2019) Written and Directed by Johannes Nyholm Swedish language with English subtitles Released exclusively to BFI player, Blu-ray and digital on 7th September 2020 A couple are traumatised after the unexpected death of […]
Drama
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (2019)
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (2019) Directed by Ciro Guerra On Digital Download from 7th September 2020 A fair and honest Magistrate overseeing a distant outpost territory in the desert frontier is visited by the cruel, […]
HCF Reviews
La Llorona (2020)
LA LLORONA (2020) Directed by Jayro Bustamante Until last year, when the mediocre Conjuring spinoff came out, I’d never heard of La Llorona in my life. Yet, in Latin America, she’s a household name, in […]
HCF Reviews
Impetigore (2019)
IMPETIGORE Directed by Joko Anwar When I first heard about Shudder, I assumed it’d be a place people could go to find schlocky, disposable flicks time forgot. While it’s got a lot of that too, […]
Interviews
Interview: Graham Hughes on Death of a Vlogger
I bet by now you’re probably bored of reading features about found footage films that start with “this one’s different” – but trust me, this one actually is. Death of a Vlogger is micro-budget film […]
Drama
HOMEWRECKER [2019]: on Region 1 DVD and VOD 7th July
USA AVAILABLE ON REGION 1 DVD AND VOD: 7th July, from UNCORK’D ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 76 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Recently married Michelle is a shy interior designer who finds it hard to […]
Drama
FANNY LYE DELIVER’D (2019)
FANNY LYE D’LIVERED Written and Directed by Thomas Clay In 1657, during the Cromwellian Protectorate after the civil war, England was an oppressed place to live, in particular for women. The puritan patriarchy sees titular […]
HCF Reviews
Driven (2019)
DRIVEN Directed by Glenn Payne Last night I was speaking with a friend about my favourite horror-comedies. He’s never liked horror flicks, so was maybe asking about these as a potential route in. I get […]
HCF Reviews
The Fanatic (2019)
THE FANATIC Directed by Fred Durst Well, it worked for Rob Zombie. You’ll presumably know director/ co-writer Fred Durst from his days with nu-metal outfit Limp Bizkit. Their juvenile humour, backwards baseball caps and shallow […]
Documentary
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR Written by Xavier Burgin ‘We’ve always loved horror’ says UCLA professor Tananarive Due towards the start of Horror Noire. ‘It’s just that horror hasn’t always loved us’. It’s […]
HCF Reviews
Feedback (2019)
FEEDBACK (2019) Directed by Pedro C. Alonso Feedback is one of the films I missed at FrightFest last year, in favour of the frankly fantastic Extracurricular. It was also one I heard next to nothing […]
Action
Spider-Man: Ranking the films from Maguire to Holland
There was a time in a long gone era when every Spidey fan was excited over the news that James Cameron was planning his own webbed, wall climbing flick with Arnie in the role […]
HCF Reviews
The Wretched (2019)
The Wretched (2019) Directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce A young man, struggling to find his way in life after his parents separation, discovers that a 1000 year old witch has targeted the […]
HCF Reviews
Swallow (2019)
SWALLOW Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis Reduced to an elevator pitch, Swallow may sound like Butt Boy’s sister flick: same compulsion, different entrance. In their own way, each also looks at the role of personal control […]
HCF Reviews
Fantasy
THE IRON MASK [2019]: On Digital Now
AKA JOURNEY TO CHINA: THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON MASK, THE MYSTERY OF THE DRAGON SEAL, VIY 2: JOURNEY TO CHINA CHINA/RUSSIA AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL: NOW, from SIGNATURE ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 120 mins REVIEWED BY: […]
HCF Reviews
Cuck (2019)
CUCK Directed by Rob Lambert There’s more than a smidge of Joker about Rob Lambert’s feature debut: a look into the mind-set of a lowly, unemployed, virginal loner who takes up arms against what he […]