Tag: Film Festival
Chasing the dream of a breakout success YouTube video, two urban explorers think they’ve found the perfect location: An old French manor that wasn’t demolished before a lake was dammed. Using specialised equipment their competitors don’t have access to, a million views seem guaranteed. The house is miles away from tourists and immaculately preserved, unnaturally
Forced to move when her mother gets a new job, a teenager called Sol has to face dangers ranging from power outages, bullies at a new school, the worrying behaviour of her mother’s boyfriend, and attacks in the night the press are reporting as a “puma”. These attacks drive the community into a frenzy that
Seagull (2019) is an oddball revenge story centred on family drama, secrets, and spite. After 8 years of eking out survival on a beach, Rose returns home and the full story of why she lived outside of society for that long is going to cause chaos for a family living with a fair few secrets.
A Savannah Haunting was an odd but compelling watch at the online edition of the 2021 Dracula Film Festival in Romania. Directed by William Mark McCullough, who is a prolific actor as well as a horror filmmaker, and produced by Alexis Nelson, an Emmy-nominated and well-known VFX wizard, this is a film that catches your
Euro-surrealism at its most mind-assailing, as Dave has inherited his father’s run-down and weird Hotel Poseidon. A dilapidated hellscape where logic is frequently suspended attracts the weirdest of the weird, Dave himself is no exception. Prepare for the bizarre, everything here from start to finish is weird to the point of being oppressive. The claustrophobic
Sometimes you luck into a genre film so good that you feel the need to champion it, to place your hopes in it to reach the hearts and minds of many and call it the next great leap forward. Chi Zhang’s Annular Eclipse, a Chinese cyberpunk actioner with lofty aspirations and many qualities, feels like a
Something deadly has begun in the woods as an infectious spore mutates from ‘Patient Zero’ to begin an alarming spread. People are its food source as well as reproduction method, giving it plenty of chances to evolve even further, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to stop it. The structure of The Spore
Canadian writer/director Christopher Donaldson wants you to know that Ditched (2021) is supposed to be “that B-movie you accidentally missed in 1986”. Do not watch it hoping for a deep message or psychological layers to peel, that’s not his goal. Watch it for the gory thrill ride that it is and be prepared to groan at
There are movies that are sometimes too much even for the seasoned horror fan – for the 2012 version of myself, one such movie was the remake of William Lustig’s Maniac starring Elijah Wood, one that felt so downright evil that it seemed like a snuff film. It took me 8 and a half years
The Hammer films of the late ’50s and ’60s are my go-to comfort films. I’m particularly partial to ones starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, but honestly, who doesn’t love those? Older horror films don’t have all of the high-budget effects and scare gags that a lot of their modern counterparts do, so they often