Category: Reviews
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REVIEW: Late Night With The Devil (2023)
dir. Cameron and Colin Cairnes During a live broadcast of 70s talkshow Night Owls, host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) promises one hell of a night. Desperate to boost ratings and save his ailing reputation he’ll do anything, even inviting on a parapsychologist (Laura Gordon) and her young ward (Ingrid Torelli), the latter of whom is…
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BOOK REVIEW: The Films of Wes Craven (2023)
Collection edited by Calum Waddell When asked to recall a list of definitive horror directors, Wes Craven’s name is guaranteed to be one of the first to spill from our lips. But how well do we really know the career of the man who gave us genre-defining films such as The Last House on the Left,…
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REVIEW: When Evil Lurks a.k.a Cuando acecha la maldad (2023)
Written and directed by Demián Rugna In a remote village in Argentina, brothers Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimmy (Demián Salomón) discover “a rotten” – a demon-possessed man whose body is slowly decaying. Divided about what to do, they decide to remove him from their locality, with disastrous results. As fans of Terrified (2017) and Satanic…
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REVIEW: V/H/S 85
dir. David Bruckner (segment “Total Copy”); Scott Derrickson (segment “Dreamkill”); Natasha Kermani (segment “TKNOGD”); Mike P. Nelson (segment “No Wake”) and Gigi Saul Guerrero (segment “God of Death”). The sixth instalment in the horror anthology franchise, V/H/S 85 is similar to its last two predecessors (V/H/S 94 and 99) in that it’s firmly rooted in…
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REVIEW: Good Boy (2022)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Written and directed by Viljar Bøe When free spirit student Sigrid (Katrine Lovise Øpstad Fredriksen) matches on a dating app with charming millionaire Christian (Gard Løkke) everything…
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REVEIW: Founders Day (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Directed by Erik Bloomquist. Written by Erik and Carson Bloomquist. Every holiday deserves a horror that can be watched annually to mark the occasion, and Founders Day…
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REVIEW: Failure! (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Written and directed by Alex Kahuam Succession meets Boiling Point with intermittently explosive results in Failure!, an impressively claustrophobic single-take crime thriller anchored by a laser-focused performance from genre legend Ted…
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REVIEW: My Mother’s Eyes (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Directed by Takeshi Kushida Opening his second feature by fulfilling its title, writer/director Takeshi Kushida presents a close-up focus on the eyes of Hitomi (Akane Ono) while…
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REVIEW: Pareidolia (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like the one being covered here wouldn’t exist. Directed by Aaron Truss. Written by Aidan Truss An American lecturer living in England, Sinead (Diane Franklin, Amityville II) gives her students an assignment…