To do Skinamarink (2022) credit, all of its tedious blunders are strongly represented in the first few minutes; you don’t need to wait the full one hundred to feel cheated. The warning signs are there, and they’re there good and early: the opening credits which proclaim that it is ‘1995’, though breaking that spell by […]
Friend of the World (2020) starts with a few moments of that kind of angst which can only come from a place of relative practical comfort. Hence, as we see a woman meander back and forth against a beautiful, sunny backdrop, a female voice ponders her own lack of engagement with the world; she wants […]
Teddy Told Me To (2022) comes from that place of oddly warm nostalgia which many horror fans have for the films they saw growing up – as grisly and oddball as many of those films were, they feel comforting and familiar. It also updates things, by adding in the phenomena of YouTubers, live streaming, state-of-the-art […]
By guest contributor Chris Ward Featuring an all-star cast of familiar household names – well, they were household names thirty years ago – Renegades is a British revenge thriller that sees a group of former soldiers take to the streets of London to get revenge for the murder of former Green Beret Carver (Lee Majors), […]
There’s a surprisingly languid start to 68-minute feature The Underbug (2023), one which belies the brief amount of time which the film has; the camera lingers first of all on a jungle scene, showing an array of insects in their natural habitat, all oblivious to whatever might be going on with mankind. It has a […]
The beautiful and evocative coastal landscapes of Enys Men (2022) make for an unorthodox tourist board advertisement for a fantastical Cornwall – if you like your weekends away to feature a certain amount of the uncanny and the uncertain, at least. Taken as a series of still images, the film feels like a tribute to […]
It’s made clear pretty quickly in Argentinian demonic horror-comedy Legions (2022) that we are covering a long period of time – a then and a now. As a voiceover introduces us to a shaman, someone with magical know-how in his lineage, we’re shown life as it was, in a remote village operating by traditional rules […]
Is the climate our enemy? Sometimes it seems so; sometimes it’s represented as such, too, as if the floods, hurricanes, heatwaves and cold snaps we’ve seen in recent years are all doing it on purpose. Perhaps, then, it was inevitable that horror would take the fear of a new relationship with the environment and run […]
The opportunity to watch and review short films continues to be one of the key motivations behind Warped Perspective. Yes, we keep saying it, but it’s true. This is such a golden opportunity to get to see calling cards from new, exciting filmmakers, tasked with getting their message across, or in some way communicating a […]
Another year bites the dust… From the perspective of the kinds of independent films usually covered here at Warped Perspective, 2022 has, after everything, been a good year for film: lots of the big genre film festivals have boasted excellent, extensive line-ups, and after a run of virtual-only fests, most physical fests are back (though, […]
Cyclic Law, based in France, occupies an important space as a purveyor of dark ambient and experimental music. And this label’s releases are genuinely experimental, too, rather than simply sounding eclectic in ways which themselves soon become pretty predictable. There’s often a sense of mystery to what CL releases, if that’s not overstating it. And […]