Drama
LUX AETERNA [2019]
FRANCE AVAILABLE ON LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY: 30TH MAY, from ARROW FILMS RUNNING TIME: 53 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Real-life actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is playing a witch in a film called God’s Work which is […]
Horror
HCF Reviews
VAMPYR [1932]
GERMANY/FRANCE RUNNING TIME: 73 mins AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: 30TH MAY, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Allan Gray’s stay at an inn at the village of Courtempierre is interrupted by an old man who […]
HCF Reviews
EGO (2021) [Grimmfest Easter 2022 Review]
EGO (2021) Directed by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas Screened at Grimmfest Easter 2022 Spanish language with English subtitles Paloma, a young lesbian woman, discovers another woman using her photograph on a dating app. Deciding to confront the […]
HCF Reviews
GIRLS NITE OUT (1982)
GIRL’S NITE OUT (1982) Directed by Robert Deubel Available on Arrow Video Blu-Ray After winning a basketball game at the last second, Dewitt University are on cloud nine leading into the night’s festivities where the […]
Ghost
THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY [1934]
MEXICO AKA EL FANTASMA DEL CONVENTO, THE PHANTOM OF THE CONVENT AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY RUNNING TIME: 85 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Alfonso, Eduardo and Eduardo’s wife Cristina get lost when exploring a forest near […]
Comedy
STUDIO 666 (2022)
STUDIO 666 (2022) Directed by BJ McDonnell For their tenth studio album, frontman Dave Grohl decides the Foo Fighters should record somewhere different and, with the help of their record label boss, discover the perfect […]
Fantasy
LA LLORONA [1933]
AKA THE CRYING WOMAN MEXICO AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY from INDICATOR RUNNING TIME: 70 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera In Mexico City, a man walking down a street is seemingly killed by fright after hearing […]
HCF Reviews
WOODLAND GREY (2021) [Grimmfest Easter 2022 Review]
WOODLAND GREY (2021) Directed by Adam Reider Screening at Grimmfest Easter 2022 A young woman decides to spend a few days alone, camping in the woods, to heal and grieve the loss of her grandfather. […]
Ghost
POST MORTEM [2020] [Grimmfest Easter 2022 Review]
HUNGARY RUNNING TIME: 118 mins SCREENING AT GRIMMFEST EASTER 2022 FESTIVAL REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera In 1918, German photographer Tomás is knocked down on a battlefield by a bomb-blast but seems to be brought back […]
HCF Reviews
THREE MONSTER TALES OF SCI-FI TERROR [1941, 1957, 1958]
THREE MONSTER TALES OF SCI-FI TERROR ON BLU-RAY NOW, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Eureka bring us three old science fiction horrors from Universal, none of which I’d seen before. So do they […]
Action
MORBIUS [2022]
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 104 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera As a child, Michael Morbius becomes friends with Milo, the two of them struggling with the same rare blood disease which requires constant […]
Ghost
NIGHT’S END (2022)
NIGHT’S END (2022) Directed by Jennifer Reeder Streaming on Shudder Divorced hermit Ken Barber tries to make a career for himself by recording online videos. On one of his videos, where he divulges his ‘long […]
Drama
HOMEBOUND (2021)
HOMEBOUND (2021) Written and Directed by Sebastian Godwin Homebound is in cinemas now and on digital from 4th April 2022 from Blue Finch Film Releasing Holly joins her new husband Richard in meeting his three […]
Fantasy
EROTIC GHOST STORY [1990]
EROTIC GHOST STORY [1990] AKA LIU JAI YIM TAAM HONG KONG AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY RUNNING TIME: 90 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Fei Fei, So So and Fa Fa are spirits who’ve been living in […]
Found Footage
Stoker Hills
A hybrid of found footage and conventional, Stoker Hills starts off fast, but quickly loses its way with its grand ambition….. Even though the Found Footage genre has now been literally done to death, […]
Comedy
SOME LIKE IT RARE (2021) aka BARBAQUE
SOME LIKE IT RARE (2021) aka BARBAQUE Directed by Fabrice Eboué French Language with English Subtitles After decades of marriage, Sophie and Vincent Pascal’s life isn’t going how they’d planned. Not only is their marriage […]
HCF Reviews
THE DARKER THE LAKE (2022)
THE DARKER THE LAKE (2022) Directed by Lok Kwan Woo Available on Digital With a spate of mysterious deaths in their Austrian town, raging from killings to suicides, detectives Tamara and Lukas investigate and find […]
Action
THE LEDGE (2022)
THE LEDGE (2022) Directed by Howard J. Ford Available on Digital from 14th March 2022 and DVD 21st March 2022 After witnessing a group of men committing a crime, a young woman finds herself trapped […]
