Frightfest Glasgow: The Old Ways (2020)

Possession horrors are almost always based around Catholic lore, and demons are dispensed with via Catholic means. But this, surely, isn’t the whole picture: other traditions and cultures must have their own spin on this kind of horror. Well, The Old Ways at least initially purports to provide a different spin on the genre; however […]

Violent Delights (2020)

My experience of Mexican cinema tends towards the non-mainstream, admittedly, but even based on the little I do know, it seems that lurching straight into the strange and the bloody unreasonable is a niche national pastime. And so we come to Violent Delights a.k.a Beber de tu Sangre, which certainly starts as it means to […]

DVD Review: Curandero – Dawn of the Demon (2005)

Review by Ben Bussey When a film is released to DVD almost eight years after it was made, it tends not to inspire a great deal of confidence. However, when said film has the names Robert Rodriguez, Carlos Gallardo and Harvey and Bob Weinstein attached, it also inspires at least a little curiosity. Such was […]

Film Review: We Are What We Are

We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay) (2010) Directed by: Jorge Michel Grau Distributors: IFC Films (US) Artificial Eye (UK) Release date: 12th November 2010 (UK) TBC 2011 (US) Starring: Paulina Gaitan, Alan Chávez,  Francisco Barreiro, Carmen Beato Review by: Stephanie Scaife Jorge Michel Grau’s debut feature We Are What We Are is […]