by Kurt Halfyard, January 27, 2012 12:03 AM
It has indeed been nearly 40 years since the release of the British cult film about cults: The Wicker Man. Director Robin Hardy has a fairly sparse resume in the ensuing years, only a single film, and a single...
by Matthew Lee, December 18, 2011 10:18 PM
Filip Tegstedt's Marianne stretches the definition of a horror movie by quite some way; there's only one recurring supernatural element and it's left very much open to interpretation as to whether the main character is imagining the whole thing, to...
by Matthew Lee, December 18, 2011 9:54 PM
Filp Tegstedt's Marianne stood out among some pretty impressive genre productions at the Leeds Film Festival 2011 given the Swedish director's debut almost doesn't feel like a conventional horror film at all. The story of a man eaten alive by...
by Matthew Lee, November 27, 2011 11:13 PM
It's great when a director identifies with a film they've poured heart and soul into making, even more so when it's clearly pushed them to excel. Still, what are you supposed to think when it's a story about weak, contemptible...
by Matthew Lee, November 20, 2011 2:34 PM
If you're going to mash up horror and comedy ideally your writer or director needs to have it straight what it is the audience are supposed to be laughing at. The idea of a quiet English village hiding a pathologically...
by Matthew Lee, November 20, 2011 2:34 PM
Horror's pretty dumb, right, when you get down to it? Subjecting ourselves to seedy vicarious thrills when if we took pleasure in the same things in real life we'd be clinically insane. Lots of people level this argument against genre...
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by Matthew Lee, October 24, 2011 4:35 PM
What you get out of Lucky McKee's The Woman, a piece of ultraviolent drama that's brilliant and infuriating by turns, is probably dependent on how serious you think the director and his writing partner, novelist Jack Ketchum are being. The...
by Matthew Lee, October 23, 2011 6:35 PM
It's not the best title, is it? Trying to sell the excellent Some Guy Who Kills People is a lot harder than it ought to be when the name makes it sound like a slacker's Film Studies final year project...
by Matthew Lee, October 7, 2011 6:49 AM
Carl Tibbetts' Retreat ought to be better than it is, which is not to say it doesn't have its good points. It's a solid, well-made piece of work, an impressive debut feature and boasts a name cast contributing some memorable...
by Matthew Lee, September 19, 2011 4:11 PM
So is Yudai Yamaguchi's micro-budget horror-comedy Dead Ball a good film? The temptation is to say technically no... but you have to remember most people don't make the effort to watch a film where physical FX maestro Yoshihiro Nishimura is...
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