As the poor, plot-irrelevant saps we meet briefly during Evil Dead Burn‘s pre-credits sequence die their genuinely horrible deaths, I almost had to laugh. Not because years of viewing increasingly horrific gore has burned away my nerve endings, though perhaps that is partly true; no, it’s the fact that the original Evil Dead (1981) was […]
In 1983, the Director of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]
In 1983, the Director Of Public Prosecutions published its first list of movies which were tagged with the tabloid-friendly label of Video Nasties. These cinematic outliers were deemed to have to power to deprave and corrupt and, if the title in question had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, any dealer […]
Reality Killers (2005) begins with a caption which reads, “This film was mailed to us by an anonymous sender” and the viewer will instantly understand why, as the whole shebang is set up to be a whistle-stop tour of a very twisted individual’s collection of snuff videos. And, according to the IMDb summary, what follows […]
The busiest and best time of the year for Warped Perspective is just around the corner again, as the Fantasia International Film Festival gets ready to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Covering Fantasia has become a regular fixture for the site and it’s always genuinely very exciting: it’s often an opportunity to see world premieres of […]
A young man called Amenashi (Iori Abe) is grieving the loss of his sister, Anna (Utano Aoi), who took her own life after witnessing a suicide – the experience of which seemed to draw her in, making her doubt in any sense of a future. In a broader sense, Amenashi is grieving the kind of […]
Camping: not even once. That’s perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps unsurprisingly, the clearest message in The Devil Whispered my Name (Un susurro invocó mi nombre), a film which – in trying to do a lot – ends up not doing much. This is a shame, as there are some brilliant visual flourishes and good sound design […]
Vampires have come on a lot since Bram Stoker’s time. Modern iterations of the original Count Dracula have grown well beyond the plague-bringing, coffin-dragging antagonist role. See the maudlin, complaining protagonist Louis and the dashing, bratty Lestat (Interview with the Vampire); the sexy-rich fashion plates played by Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in Tony Scott’s […]
Any film which announces itself with a bright red, block-capitals title screen always speaks to high levels of confidence (go on, bet you can think of a few) and yeah, Jackalope (2026) fits this bill, too. If it’s guilty of anything, then it’s how it introduces a surfeit of ideas which it needs its audience […]
Starting out as a gruelling ethical quandary before progressing somewhere borderline fantastical, Child (2026) is without doubt a bleak film, but an innovative one, and it works effectively on its own terms, keeping a very humane, character-focused approach throughout its bizarre literal and metaphorical journey. We start with two doctors attending to what is clearly […]
Killa B (Brianna Lee) is a very successful TikTok influencer and content creator (singing, dancing, talking to the camera – you know the drill). She’s beloved of a demographic of rather dead-eyed teenagers who come to life briefly whenever she posts. All that approbation can do things to you. The Troll (2025) is about what […]