Interview: Ian Mantgani, director of Nosepicker

Warped Perspective has long been promoting short films, and thanks to the ALTER channel on YouTube, it finally seems that there’s a decent outlet for them which extends beyond the enthusiastic, but limited remit of the festival scene. And so, we recently reviewed a body horror/cautionary tale called Nosepicker: if you haven’t already, then you […]

Tiger Stripes (2023)

A blend of styles and themes but ultimately a body horror, Tiger Stripes is incredibly worthwhile: lively, evocative and multifaceted. Like the best of horror, it strikes a solid balance between humane and fantastical: the crazy things which happen here, happen to people who are completely plausible and likeable. This is a daring and darkly […]

Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022)

By contributor Gabby Foor Motherhood, for me, was always an idea laced with fear. From the time I could understand my mother’s aches and pains from having me, I wondered at the fate of a mother and if I wanted to bear that myself. As nameless as the entity that stalks Valeria (Natalia Solian) is, […]

Fantasia 2022: The Breach

The Breach (2022) knows exactly what it wants to be: that is, a solid horror yarn, a midnight movie by design which might not surprise you with its plot elements, but will keep you consistently entertained as it burns through a significant number of genre features. Directed by Rodrigo Gudiño, founder of Rue Morgue magazine, […]

Fantasia 2022: All Jacked Up and Full of Worms

With such a long pedigree of films which have explored altered states in impressively oddball ways, it presumably gets tougher and tougher for filmmakers to distinguish their own impressively oddball films from the rest. Well, a title like ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms‘ is certainly a good start. The film itself goes further […]

“If you can’t find a friend, make one”: 20 years of May

Lucky McKee’s directorial debut May (2002) was not a huge box office success. It initially made far less money than it cost to make, and it baffled many of the audiences who initially got to see it, including the New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden, although he took for his point of reference the slasher […]

Interview: The Passenger’s Ramiro Blas

Following on from our recent review of the ‘creature feature road trip’ movie The Passenger, we were pleased to get the opportunity for a quick chat with leading man Ramiro Blas, who plays the inimitable (and potentially divisive) leading man Blasco in the film. Blas has a long pedigree as an actor – over twenty […]

Blood in the Snow 2020: Hall

I’ll be honest; I’ve been dreading the inevitable ‘lockdown horror’ boom, and it’s something which is already happening: bored folks with cameras riffing on ideas about coronavirus is unlikely to bring us too many in the way of classics. Happily, Hall (2020) is not of this stripe. It’s born of coincidence rather than opportunism, a […]

Swallow (2019)

Magpies are notorious for their willingness to eat almost anything.  In fact, it is due to this habit that they lend their Latin name, picave, to the psychological condition known as pica. Listed in the DSM-V as an eating disorder wherein one persistently eats non-nutritive, non-food substances, pica is basically the formal diagnosis for someone who […]