Film Reviews

Argentinian horror film The Returned (Los que vuelven, 2019) is set in 1919 in the jungles that border that country and Brazil, where something supernatural and sinister resides, far beyond the understanding of the wealthy landowners who exploit the area ...

Director Im KwonTaek’s The Divine Bow (Shingung, 1979, South Korea) is a drama about the traditional Korean religion of shamanism and features several scenes of rituals and exorcisms. It should be noted, though, that this is far from a horror ...

“Each film tells you what it needs if you listen.” — Jennifer Kent Australian cinema resembles its landscape — pockets of beauty surrounding a vast Outback of baron features and hardened personalities — where, still within their infancy, it is ...

New Zealand horror comedy Dead (2020) concerns David “Marbles” Malwich (Thomas Sainsbury), a stoner who has opened the doors to communicating with the dead after combining marijuana with his late father’s neurological medicine. Content with merely helping the living say ...

In this, Diabolique’s inaugural episode of FanCam, we delve into the night He came home… again and again and again. The idea of FanCam is a simple one: it is designed to spotlight filmmakers, young and old, paying homage to ...

The early nineties though, were an odd time for horror films, though there were obvious exceptions such as the nifty original Candyman (1992), the opening of that decade wasn’t exactly awash with classic scares. Coppola’s instantly dated foray into the ...

Irish/U.K. production Boys from County Hell (2020) is a smart, fun approach to putting a new spin on vampire films. Playing with tropes on how vampirism spreads, how these undead attain the human blood on which they feed, and how ...

I am a little late to the party with this one, given the festival ran well over a month ago. The reason for this is I have been busy expanding this column into a wider project for Patreon — you ...

American Race Relations and Juvenile Delinquency through the Lens of J’irai cracher sur vos tombes Cinematic adaptations of books have a long history of being derided by the source material’s author, but few have as dramatic a claim to this ...

Cult Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci revisits the giallo genre in his scuzzy 1982 film The New York Ripper.