Why would anyone go camping, ever, for supposed ‘pleasure’? It seems to be a lesson lost on South Koreans, too, if we can judge at least a little bit based on The Human Trap (2021). However, the camping aspect of the film is only a minor aspect of what the plot eventually has in store; […]
A moody, atmospheric tale of retribution stained with blood and grief, Sunrise is a tense horror thriller overflowing with drama. Brought to you from Lionsgate, the same studio that gave us last year’s creepy crawling feature Cobweb, comes a distinctive, entertaining and sometimes ruthless take on vampires. Sunrise delivers action and tragedy in even doses […]
It’s no surprise at all that frontier horror, or Wild West horror, continues to hold such great potential for new storytelling. Consider it: an uncertain, changeable point in history; the arrival of immigrants from different parts of the world, coming together as strangers in a strange land; the land itself, potentially hostile, unknown and peopled […]
Accomplished scientist Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) gives new life to Bella (Emma Stone), a recently deceased young woman, via a brain transplant and some good old fashioned, Frankenstein-style electrical charge. In order to track Bella’s development, “God” enlists the help of student Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef) and Max comes to fall for Bella’s unfiltered view […]
A heady, hallucinatory maze, Reflect is the new metaphysical, sci-fi thriller debut from writer, director and star Dana Kippel. Aiming to strip back layers of trauma, mental health and the fortitude of female relationships, this is an altogether imaginative debut with fantastical ideas about our existence and the meaning behind it. Metaphysical horror is hard […]
It’s a strange thing – I was prepared to write this review of The Frightened Woman as if this film is nothing more than a quirky time capsule, a pretty, picturesque piece of cinema coming from some very particular social and cultural mores. Of course, it is all of that, but its story of a […]
A gritty, action filled roadtrip with piling bodies and a rising speedometer, Roadkill (2024) will be debuting in limited theaters and on video on demand early this January. Directed and written by Warren Fast, this is a whole lot of thriller with the goal in mind to send its viewers away with messages of confronting […]
Brandon Cronenberg may not have the most extensive filmography on the block – as of yet – but, based on the films he has brought us so far, you could suggest that selfhood and the performance of self are important themes. Infinity Pool (2023) is certainly no exception, but as Cronenberg continues to grow his […]
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 […]
It’s not just a big action biopic. That’s probably the first thing to get straight about Ferrari (2023), a film which could well just be a fairly straightforward story of making fast cars, racing fast cars and occasionally filling us on on the human drama unfolding nearby – always within reason, of course. Rather, Michael […]
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 […]