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, […]
It’s been discussed elsewhere on the site how, via successive lockdowns and the increasing role of social media, the latter has gone from steadily moving into horror cinema to hitting it at some pace. That being said, Filtered (2021) manages something a little different by taking a social media element which is usually trite and […]
Meet Gillian. Gillian is an aspiring filmmaker, albeit one who could use a content filter; this is clear as she explains to her friend Chase that some mutual friends paid her the unusual compliment of saying she’d ‘make a good murderer’, so she wants to explore the idea by going to his place and elaborating […]
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Redemption label opened many doors for me – and I’m sure that is the case for many other film fans, too. Were it not for mainstream retailers taking a punt on a certain very visually-arresting array of…well, VHS cassettes, if you go back a bit, then would […]