Keri’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Insert preamble here… Well, here we are again. As Warped Perspective is about to enter its tenth year – and that coming off the back of the old Brutal as Hell days, too – I’ve racked up quite a few editions of these Top Tens, and every year I search for some kind of summative […]

Making Vampires Grim Again: Life, Death & The Vourdalak (2023)

When we think about vampires, our expectations have inevitably been shaped by popular literature, which has in turn – for the last century – also found expression in cinema. In the nineteenth century, popular reading habits created a set of cultural expectations about vampires. The birth of horror fiction, which stemmed in turn from the […]

The Vourdalak (2023)

When a film starts with a grand, Gothic peal of thunder, it had better mean it. It had better not be suggesting something it can’t deliver. Well, thankfully, The Vourdalak (2023) very much delivers: it’s a gloomy folktale made even gloomier by writers Adrien Beau and Hadrien Bouvier, and it’s an intimate, though always dreamlike […]