Unlucky in love Drew (Drew Sinclair) wanders into a pub and finds the gaff empty except for Johnny (Nathan Geering), who announces that the place is closed and that Drew should find an alternative establishment to enjoy his refreshment. However, it turns out that Drew is meeting someone there for a first date and attempts […]
The love affair with analogue tech is alive and well in Game Over (2026); add to that a few clear nods to a fair few pre-existing films (Ring and Evilspeak in particular), and you’ll get a sense of what to expect here. Is it groundbreaking? No it isn’t. Is it affectionate? Yes it is. We […]
In a remote Shetland cottage – one where you’d think there’d be a vested interest in repairing gaping holes to the wilds outside – a couple in bed are being spied on through said gaping hole by a blue-eyed Peeping Tom, something which gives way to a montage of pagan-ish nightmares and images before we […]
Evil Thread (2026) tries to do a great deal during its ninety-minute runtime, so we begin a little bit meta – with a couple, Alice and Archie, both appearing in a horror film and watching a horror film, in an opening scene replete with silliness, like Archie cowering from the screen behind a blanket; this […]
What starts out as a quiet Saturday for Sandra (Nerea Barros), her husband Liam (Willam Miller) and their children Emma (Alma Bruno) and Lucía (Claudia Lilley) slowly turns into a nightmare, as the worldwide outbreak of a virulent disease reaches their sleepy, suburban neighbourhood… We’re in infected/undead territory once again, which is not necessarily a […]
A camera whirls through an unkempt indoor food market in Madrid; it’s soon equally swirling with racist stereotypes about the Chinese vendors working here which – at least briefly, in the world of Buffet Libre (2025) – turn out to be true. The Chinese, represented here by wife Xian (Yan Huang) really are catching and […]
Feeling trapped in his job as a teacher in the small outback community of Tiboonda, John Grant (Gary Bond) is glad to get to the end of term, so that he can travel to Sydney to spend the festive period with his girlfriend. In order to catch a flight onwards, he must first take the […]
On October 19th, 2003, in the town of One Season, Jack (Jack Rawlinson) goes for a swim and disappears beneath the waves. Three weeks later, he returns without an explanation and no knowledge of what has happened to him in the intervening time. Four years on, Jack is eking out a reclusive existence, but the […]
“This is a true story…sort of.” Wasting no time in getting its players on the board and establishing its own sardonic spin on Americana, Valley View Motel (2026) is a love letter to the 70s crime genre cinema with which it shares its setting. We start with what looks like a robbery gone very wrong […]
“You picked Haddaway?” 2012: Jerry’s, somewhere in the boonies, is the self-proclaimed ‘best bar in town’, with a thriving karaoke night taking place – right up until a drunk stumbles over and yanks out the machine’s power cable, blasting the literal eyeballs out of the current performer. I like it when a film makes a […]
São Paulo party planner Malu (Martha Nowill) has a lot to do, toilet breaks notwithstanding. She has a cake to worry about, there are last-minute arrangements to make, and her twins’ father hasn’t come to pick them up as arranged, which is unhelpful, so she optimises a spare moment by helping to yank out her […]