Film Reviews

Trash Fire (2016) is a nasty piece of work with pointed wit and real bite. Writer-director Richard Bates Jr. (Suburban Gothic, 2014) really comes into his own with this twisted and blackly comic relationship drama turned Southern Gothic macabre tale. The ...

Australian offering Bad Girl (2016) screened at South Korea’s 21st Busan International Film Festival, which ran from 6-15 October 2016. The film is a taut, exciting thriller that boasts top-notch performances from its two lead actresses. Even as the plot ...

Big Ronnie is not the Greasy Strangler. Or so he says. Either way, someone is, and someone is a bullshit artist. Big Ronnie might be smooth, but his son Big Brayden suspects his father is the Greasy Strangler. Brayden loves ...

Over the last few decades, but especially since her role as a masochistic music teacher in Michael Haneke’s La pianiste (2001) aka The Piano Teacher, petite powerhouse Isabelle Huppert has proven herself to be one of the giants of contemporary ...

Directors Lorenzo Lepori and Roberto Albanesi bring us Catacomba; an Italian horror anthology influenced not just by the classic anthology films and TV series but also by the Italian fumetti— erotic horror comics that provide a more grotesque and sexually charge ...

For decades the origin and motivations of the serial killer has been one of the most interesting and deeply unsettling dynamics of horror storytelling. Why do these creatures do what they do? What makes sense in their minds? What influence ...

Originally a German splatter slasher franchise started way back in 1989 by Andreas Schnaas, Violent Shit and its main antagonist Karl the Butcher have been rebooted for modern audiences by Italian director Luigi Pastore (Symphony in Blood Red) along with ...

In the forbidden corners of an ornate and dusty room lies a reel of beauty, of vice, of shadowy lust and repression. Written in a scrawl that is uniquely lovely in the blackest of oil-inks is the title, Sin. The ...

‘Would you like to reproduce now?’ is hardly the most romantic chat up line I have ever heard, but it does for English astronomy professor James Pond (Jeremy Crutchley). You see James was on his way from New York to ...

Sexy, delicious, provocative, Miklós Jancsó’s , Italian/Yugoslavian co-production, Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976) is so loaded in sublime visual style, it begs to be seen in glorious high definition. Now, thanks to Mondo Macabro, the film gets a world exclusive ...