Film Reviews

Writer and director of 68 Kill (2017), Trent Haaga, hasn’t helmed a film since 2011’s dark comedy Chop. Instead, he’s been contributing behind the scenes, helping write cult darling Cheap Thrills (2013) and hit videogame The Evil Within (2014). While ...

Teenage Ghost Punk, the second feature-length from producer, actor, writer and writer Mike Cramer, isn’t a traditional ghost tale. Somewhat reminiscent of Casper (1995), albeit with a suburban setting and spectres that look like ordinary people, the story revolves around ...

For his feature debut Trinity (2016), writer and director Skip Shea has delved into the murky, uncomfortable and abhorrent world of child abuse at the hands of Catholic priests. An artful, troubled piece, this is a film bathed in a ...

“Why do you always have to make things so hard?” an exasperated Annie asks Dave. At this point in Dave Made A Maze (2017) the group are running away from a minotaur, transformed into paper bags, and ducking out of ...

It’s not every day the cinematic world delivers a humorous slasher film in which a pregnant mother is doing all the slashing, all because her baby tells her to do so. Seven months pregnant herself during an eleven-day shoot, British actress Alice ...

At some point in a vaguely dystopian near future, humankind is reliant on a new form of nuclear power. Built upon the carcass of a previous station, this state of the art engine repairs the damage caused by its predecessor ...

Way back in the 1960s there was a game we played on the way home from school, where we would ring random strangers’ doorbells and run off hoping to leave the unlucky householder fuming on the doorstep. We called it ...

It took fearless Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones (2012), a comically twisted, balls-to-the-wall gem, a long time to finally see a release and now his follow-up is here. If anyone was brave and lucky enough to see Byrne’s ...

Okay. Zombie films. Sigh. What’s there to say about zombie films that hasn’t been said already? Not much, really. Though I suppose that I should find something, or this will be a really short review. Scratch head, roll eyes towards ...

Throughout the years, horror films have strived to take advantage of the fears, both rational and irrational, that plague humankind. Whether it be eight-legged, fang-brandishing, giant alien arachnids, murderous clowns, or simply being plunged into darkness, genre masters from Carpenter ...