This intense debut fresh out of South Korea from writer and director Kim Jae-hoon brings us a thrilling, colorful, and bloody tale of body swapping mayhem in Devils. We open to a group of smiling fiends painting a dead woman while dismembering her and videotaping it. Two police officers approach the scene, one slightly ahead […]
A mainstay of science-fiction, by this point in time, is often in how it manages the human consequences of scientific change. Risks, dilemmas, emotional impacts: what awaits mankind when it truly breaks free of the bounds which constrain it? Well, we go a step further in Tropic (2022), to the extent that it’s not exactly […]
40 Cult Movies: from Alice Sweet Alice to The Zombies of Mora Tau by Jon Towlson “Why do we like these movies so much?” It’s a question author Jon Towlson asks in the introduction to this book as he reflects on his own tastes, which – to go by his writing career to date, as […]
A dry, depressing news cast on Halloween night, 1998, opens this Irish horror comedy, Haunted Ulster Live. Covering the troubled parts of Northern Ireland, exploring folklore, and rediscovering network television, writer and director Dominic O’Neill creates a nostalgic experience with his first film while reliving the ghost hunting shows of yore. It’s inspired by the […]
There’s a strong sense of finality from the very earliest moments of Saltburn (2023) – but how so? The film opens with a monologue – either a confession, or a survivor’s statement – and whilst it feels fairly clear it’s going to be one of those things, it holds off for the lion’s share of […]
Beginning with a series of monotonous types of travel it takes to reach a vacation, Do Not Disturb opens with beautiful imagery of a bustling Miami. Director and writer John Ainslie designs this film’s vision, inviting a listless couple into the sexy, steamy town to stay for a vacation. Chloe (Kimberly Laferriere) and Jack (Rogan […]
A man awakes in a mysterious room… Okay, so the very opening scene of Share? (2023) will sound eminently familiar to a lot of audiences. Men wake up in mysterious rooms a lot in cinema, and it’s probably no spoiler to add that, when they do, things don’t tend to go well for them, often […]
Inspired by the darkness lurking in Victoria U Bell’s own past, Heir of the Witch (2023) is a solidly told tale of witchcraft, love, class and destiny. Drawing on her own experiences and family stories, Bell directed this feature and wrote the script with the added task of starring as its lead. A deeply intimate […]
Most of us have humble beginnings, even followers of the devil. Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (2023) is a campy, kooky tribute to the Dark Lord and a wild ride to save your soul. Our director Andrew Bowser also penned this creative script and is front and center as Onyx himself, bringing […]
Wherever we go when we die – if we go anywhere at all – it seems to be an increasingly anonymous, formless kind of a place, if horror is anything to go by. Those strict old religious ideas about Heaven, Hell, and even Limbo and Purgatory seem to have muddied. Now, if you go ‘over […]