From its very earliest moments, as the camera oh-so slowly approaches a baby’s buggy parked in the middle of a street – it’s clear that You Are Not My Mother is a film which will allow itself ample time, not rushing through anything it wants to show. And, as it segues almost straight away into […]
A piece of vertical ordeal horror, if you will, The Ledge certainly hops around between ordeal and a couple of other genres too – though it remains resolutely two-dimensional. That being said, there is enough here – enough tension, enough clout – to just about hold it together, and it does enough overall to keep […]
Time flies, and it certainly doesn’t seem like three decades since I scored the poster for Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth from the local video shop, back when you could ask nicely for posters at the end of their release run and – if the member of staff took mercy on you – you could […]
A film which the site covered after its screening at Celluloid Screams in Sheffield, UK last year, Offeason (2021) is about to land on VOD and digital release on Monday 11th, 2022 thanks to the folks at Shudder and RLJE Films. Is it worth checking out? Well, to help make up your minds, you could […]
With its sunlit, rural Laotian setting, a series of enigmatic ghosts and intimations of alternate realities, The Long Walk already has a lot of elements and, dare we say, a stockpile of kudos made to draw many viewers to its flame. Add to this that it’s directed by Mattie Do, the much-feted first Laotian female […]
Review: Chris Ward Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more early ‘80s slasher movies for Arrow Video to exhume and give their customary polish to, they bring another lesser-known title to the party, this one being 1982’s Deadly Games. A fairly generic title that doesn’t give much away, Deadly Games is a slightly […]
Psst…to mark 101 Films’ upcoming release of this outstanding Kazakh comedy (which has been reviewed in full here) we have a copy of the film to give away. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to send an email to the Warped Perspective inbox [keri AT warped-perspective.com] with […]
Like a lot of audience members presumably, this reviewer had no idea what to expect from a Kazakh horror-comedy. But it turns out that, however geographically far Kazakhstan might be from many of us, there are many universal features which we can all enjoy; this is an earnest, often puerile and occasionally very gory little […]
With its very modern sensibilities and a certain level of artistic ambition, Those Who Walk Away has a few decent moments. Then again, the pitfalls of ambition over substance are written all over this (ostensibly) haunted house movie, with the main effect being that, despite some strong visuals and moments of atmosphere, it labours under […]
The Abandon gives itself an immense amount of work to do; it has sci-fi elements, but it couples these with something akin to an ordeal horror in places. But then, it adds elements of human drama too – elements which become steadily more important as the film progresses. All in, it’s a challenging watch which […]
Whilst Slapface (2021) starts out with very broad strokes – literally showing us big brother Tom (Mike Manning) and Lucas (August Maturo) taking turns to slap each other as some sort of proxy household meeting – it soon becomes something if not altogether subtle, then certainly altogether more considered. Likewise, the opening credits, with their […]