Review by Kit Rathenar Whoever wrote the publicity material for Piyapan Choopetch’s My Ex didn’t necessarily do it any favours by trying to push it as a revenge thriller in the mode of Fatal Attraction, as the prospect of yet another revenge horror movie made my blood run cold in all the wrong ways. It […]
Review by Kit Rathenar Perhaps accidentally, there’s something grimly topical about Géla Babluani’s 13. In the run-up to an election that’s seeing America tear itself apart over the question of whether its citizens should be free to die in the street if they don’t have health insurance, this movie opens by introducing us to Vince […]
Review by Eric Lefenfeld This should just be gotten out of the way upfront, given the violent reaction it might provoke in certain circles: The Conspiracy is partially a found footage film. More specifically, it’s one part found footage and three parts faux-documentary. If you’re one to dismiss anything of the sort outright, then keep […]
Review by Ben Bussey Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a trio of Australian psychobilly girls – smoking hot homicidal maniacs, one and all – hide out at a sleepy beach town and wind up doing battle with a carnivorous leviathan. If that does indeed sound familiar, it may be because Marc reviewed it about seven months back when […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s the strangest thing. Somewhere along the line – perhaps around the time of the strobe-ridden, brainless Thir13en Ghosts remake – filmmakers got confused about how to tell ghost stories. Suspense and tension, with all of the skill and patience needed to accomplish them, just seemed to leave the horror movie vocabulary […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife First things first: the less you know about Looper going in the better. This is definitely the sort of film that benefits from little to no prior knowledge of the plot, so although I will attempt to keep spoilers to a minimum I’d strongly suggest seeing the film before reading this […]
Review by Ben Bussey This is one of those reviews that seems a little arbitrary at this point. I’m half-tempted to just cut & paste Annie’s storming write-up from July and write ‘I concur’ at the bottom. Of course, that would not only be selling short the countless thousands upon thousands of Brutal As Hell […]
by Nia Edwards-Behi CAUTION: Contains spoilers. Independently made on a tiny budget, Carnival of Souls is the sole feature film directed by educational and industrial filmmaker Herk Harvey. A weird little film, it was instantly forgotten on its B-release in 1962. However, it has since rightfully gained a cult appeal, playing festivals and having received several […]
Review by Eric Lefenfeld The mere notion of exorcism needs to do very little work to sell itself as the subject of a documentary. Like their undead counterparts, exorcists, along with the requisite side serving of possessed young women, have grown to become cinematic staples since the release of a sort of famous movie back […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Ghost stories are big business right now. Whilst horror fans are generally happy to consume low-budget exercises in search of thrills (and sometimes a little innovation), mainstream audiences are lapping up the most archaic of spooky stories, as evidenced by the massive success of Hammer’s version of The Woman In Black, […]
Review by Eric Lefenfeld This world of ours is far from lacking in tales of demonic possession. The last few years alone have brought us The Possession and The Last Exorcism (with a sequel on the way). Leave it to Adrián García Bogliano, returning to Fantastic Fest with his third fever dream of a film […]