Nightmare (1981)

You’ve gotta love a film that straight away states its intent (and understand a film which needs to sell its merits pretty damn quickly) and Nightmare (1981) does both of these things. We’re off with a dream of a dismembered body, a shrieking nightmare, a man in a straightjacket – and the immediate need to […]

Interview: Joanna Tsanis, director of short film Smile (2021)

Continuing with Warped Perspective’s interviews with the directors behind ARROW Player’s recent Sharp Shorts, we asked director Joanna Tsanis about her own short film – a very brief, super-focused study of depression, grief and fear. Oh, and it’s a monster film, too. Here’s our conversation about Smile (2021). Warped Perspective: This is a very brief […]

Interview with Susannah Farrugia, director of short film Itch (2021)

Part of the recently-reviewed ‘Sharp Shorts’ package, Itch (2021) plays with ideas around faith, mental illness and temptation, and seemed like a project we wanted to explore a little more. Having recently reviewed the title, we were fortunate to next get the opportunity to speak to the director of Itch, Susannah Farrugia, and we’re grateful […]

Interview: Craig Williams, director

On occasion, you see a film – whether a short film or a feature – and something about it stays with you afterwards. Something about the visuals, perhaps, or some ingenious touch to the plot, or its characters – or perhaps some of its hints of a universe existing on its periphery, not fully extrapolated, […]

Darren’s Top 10 Horror Movies of 2023!

Every year there’s always some comment about how it’s been a terrible one for horror movies, and every year I think “What have those people been watching”? The genre rarely fails to deliver terror of all types and, as usual, narrowing the field down to my favourite ten (plus five honourable mentions) has been just […]

Gabby’s Pick of the Bunch: 2023

My first year at Warped Perspective is coming to an end. Wow. Thanks to this site, I’ve gotten to review some absolutely remarkable films from the mainstream to the indie darling. Of these many, many titles, I wanted to select five that stood out to me: not all horror, not all feature length either, but […]

Monsters, Hexes, Ultraviolence: Keri’s Top 10 Features of 2023

Every year – and I have done lists like this for quite a few years now – I wonder what I’ll say for the little preamble: before getting straight to talking about the films themselves, it always feels proper to say a little something first. Well, this year I’ll start by saying this: 2023 has […]

A love song for Calvaire (2004)

Appearing midway-through what might once have been the new normal of the New Extremity movement of the Nineties and early Noughties, Calvaire (2004) was, nonetheless, an odd and interesting fit for that movement. No doubt it was helped into existence by the advent of films like Irréversible, which had been released two years prior (sharing […]

“Some Thing Has Found Us”: Cloverfield – a Retrospective

Ahead of writing up this piece, I did a small social experiment with Cloverfield to gauge how audiences felt about it 15 years after, and nearly 400 comments within two hours later, the movie still draws a crowd, and opinions so strong I wasn’t ready for the wave. Takes range from it being the most […]