Science fiction has become increasingly sombre of late. That’s not to say it hasn’t always explored the intricacies of human interaction in some pretty heavy ways, but it at least feels as though this more often happened against a backdrop of bigger-picture world building, rather than the more intimate films we see more now. Step […]
By guest contributor Chris Ward Every so often a movie breaks through the barriers of genre, dares you to question what you think you know and threatens to make you think differently about horror movies and how they can challenge and defy social norms. Road Head (2020) isn’t that movie, mainly because at its core […]
Our fascination, as film fans, with the extraordinary era of the ‘video nasty’ continues unabated. Perhaps then, it’s fully understandable that films and filmmakers themselves display the same fascination; the lure of the heady mix of frenetic output, myth-building, mass appeal, liberal ignition and the puritanical pushback of the 80s is irresistible. That goes for […]
2018’s A Quiet Place was an excellent film, emerging out of the minor trend for sensory deprivation horror – such as Pitch Black, Don’t Breathe, Birdbox – but using as the basis for its own horrors sound, rather than sight. Added to this, it placed the audience straight into a monster mythos, with no information […]
If society gets the kind of horror which reflects and distorts its worst nightmares, then it seems these days that we’re the monsters – isolated, repressed and sinking fast. Open Your Eyes (2021) certainly fits into this category, and does a lot with its minimal elements, despite a couple of lulls here and there. After […]
This is an opinion article about Army of the Dead which contains spoilers. Here in the UK, we’ve been under a pretty protracted Covid lockdown which is only just coming to an end. Somehow, I managed to get to a film festival last October, narrowly missing the all-out lockdown which was to follow, whilst having […]
Toxic female friendships have not infrequently come in for a good, hard, if specious look in cinema. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these films have opted for the horror/thriller route, sometimes putting a spin on the home invasion idea (i.e. Single White Female) and sometimes going a step further, having a woman infiltrate the life of […]
A couple of selected quotes about the nature of vengeance set us up for I Am Lisa (2020), and foreground the overall tone rather well. For a film which at times features bloody gore and violence, it takes a surprisingly sober approach to its storytelling overall, even if it quickly establishes that it’s a story […]
Brian Emond is, or was, a ‘content producer’ from Brooklyn who always badly wanted to rise up through the ranks to real journalism. And, as he tells us early on, journalists are always looking for their exclusive – but don’t always end up telling the story they expected to tell. It’s a premise which guides […]
Whilst Warped Perspective is fortunate to work with (note: not for) a number of promotion companies who readily furnish the site with screeners and provide information whenever asked, I can’t help but note that the simple act of reviewing films is becoming more and more of a strangely competitive, restrictive environment in many ways; this […]
I think I can be forgiven for assuming that Undergods (2020) was another dystopian sci-fi of a certain kind. This isn’t just due to the promo info; its opening scenes feel familiar, with shots of dilapidated buildings, abundant filth and scarce, seemingly feral people; the aesthetic is just what you’d expect from a world post-bomb, […]