Film Reviews

February is drawing to a close. The calendar is racing towards spring and the days are growing milder. In a hail of red crepe paper and discarded heart-shaped trinkets, we have left Valentine’s Day behind. Chocolates have been eaten, hearts ...

Badlands (1973) was a film that had an ominous reputation for me growing up. As a fan of post punk artists such as Nick Cave and The Scientists, they often referenced Badlands as a brutally violent masterpiece that inspired their ...

I’ve got spies. They’re coming to get you. From Berlin to Rome, Bangkok, Germany. – Spies, Roni Griffith It takes a lot less to end the world. – The Soldier If ever there was a downright halcyon time for the ...

                                                            Somewhere in the past, Dario Argento once contemplated an idea of taping a row of sharp needles underneath the eyes of cinema audiences viewing his films, thus making it impossible for them to look away even during the goriest ...

THE MOVIE Produced in 1966 by England’s legendary Hammer Films, The Plague of the Zombies was shot back-to-back with The Reptile by director John Gilling, using the same sets and locations. Period horrors set in Cornwall, these two “Cornish horrors” ...

There is something about Christmas time and the combination of red/green aesthetics with residual, familial tensions that invite viewings of violent chaos and transgressing virtue.

The whole world’s watching, and waiting, and it’s only a matter of time before you fuck it all up – Lily  Where to begin, gentle reader?Well, let’s start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start. Moments ...

While the openings to Fred Walton’s The Sitter (1977), When A Stranger Calls (1979), and When A Stranger Calls Back (1993) don’t match-up completely, they are remarkably similar, and when it comes to The Sitter and When A Stranger Calls ...

May Dove Canady (Angela Bettis) lives in a box. Separated from the world around her, her gaze fixates through sheets glass on that which she cannot have. Glasses correct a lazy eye that in childhood was covered by an indiscreet ...

Lords of Chaos (2018) is the fourth feature from director Jonas Åkerlund, and charts the inception of Norwegian Black Metal in the early 1990s. The movie attempts to shine some light on mysterious progenitor Øystein Aarseth a.k.a. Euronymous, Oslo’s infamous ...