Film Reviews

Since the dawn of cinema, vampires have existed in cinematic culture. Occasionally, the genre seems dead. The viewer, the creator, everyone involved has done everything they can do with the infamous bloodsuckers. Then a film drops onto the scene to ...

Directed by Herman Yau, Yi boh lai beng duk (Ebola Syndrome, 1996) is an infamous Hong Kong CAT III entry. Since 1988, Category III has been Hong Kong’s most restrictive certificate – “No persons younger than 18 years of age ...

Writer/director Michael Reich’s horror-tinged quasi-romance (or, depending on one’s leanings, romance-tinged quasi-horror) film She’s Allergic to Cats is equally hypnotic, captivating, and frustrating. At times it feels like a calculated, clever slice of eccentric personal cinema, and at other times ...

Writer/director Geoff Redknap melds together science fiction, psychological horror, and family drama seamlessly in his feature-length directorial debut The Unseen (Canada, 2016). His story of an estranged father literally fading away as he wrestles with alcoholism and suicidal thoughts is ...

When you can’t count on death… an impossible sentence to finish, but that is what the world has sunk to in Stille Reserven (Hidden Reserves, 2016), a movie that considers the conditions necessary to make people spend their whole life ...

When Astron-6 collaborators Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski announced their intent to create a serious monster movie outside of the brand, fans were eager to see the duo flex creative muscles in a realm they had yet to conquer. Those ...

Hounds of Love (2017) is a bleak, sad movie. Ben Young’s directorial debut certainly rides the lines of fringe horror; dipping dangerously close to torture porn, it manages to salvage itself by presenting a different and unique look at the genre. ...

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 ...