Action,
Drama,
Etrange 2011,
Frightfest 2011,
Grimm Up North 2011,
Horror,
Leeds 2011,
SXSW 2011,
Sitges 2011,
TAD2011,
Thriller
by Matthew Lee, January 9, 2012 3:21 AM
Xavier Gens' superb The Divide basically posits that should the bombs drop and the world get blown to radioactive splinters, the scariest thing that could happen wouldn't be finding out you were screwed. It'd be finding out that given the...
by Matthew Lee, January 9, 2012 3:21 AM
The Whisperer in Darkness is a fan film through and through - an enthusiastic celebration of a subject a core group of believers think is just awesome (classic, literary-minded horror fiction from one of the fathers of the genre). It's...
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...
by Matthew Lee, October 24, 2011 4:35 PM
Wong Ching-Po's salacious little thriller Revenge: A Love Story is the second film from production company 852 - who previously gave us Edmond Pang's Dream Home, an ultraviolent slasher (emphasis on ultra) where Pang's trademark sly social commentary sat somewhat...
by Matthew Lee, October 24, 2011 4:35 PM
(PLEASE NOTE: The version of The Reverend that screened at Grimm Up North 2011 was a final edit that had only been completed several days before the festival started, and it is certainly possible director Neil Jones may choose to...
Cult,
Drama,
Etrange 2011,
Exploitation,
Fantasia 2011,
Frightfest 2011,
Grimm Up North 2011,
Horror,
Sundance 2011,
TAD2011,
USA & Canada
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 23, 2011 6:35 PM
Halloween 3 seems bizarre enough in 2011 before you've even started watching. A Halloween with no Michael Myers, the masked killer who became the star of the first two films - the idea Hollywood would green-light a major franchise sequel...
by Matthew Lee, October 23, 2011 6:35 PM
Alejandro Molina's By Day and by Night is the kind of bittersweet little fable that only an arthouse film could come up with. The plot does hinge on a patently ridiculous idea Molina could probably have done more to ground...
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