Leigh Whannell’s ever-expanding contribution to horror cinema reaches a particular highlight with The Invisible Man, which shows that with good actors and a great screenplay you can successfully update a Universal Pictures horror franchise without Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, and a … Continue reading REVIEW: The Invisible Man (2020)
Gretel & Hansel is a weirdly mispromoted film. It was released in American theatres at the beginning of 2020 before finally making its way to global audiences – including Australia – in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. It seems such … Continue reading REVIEW: Gretel & Hansel (2020)
Give a horror movie franchise enough instalments and it will be dragged into an endless loop: Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Saw, Hellraiser – name your franchise, and sooner or later Hollywood will creep around again and … Continue reading REVIEW: Halloween (2018)
Just as the Californian town of Antonio Bay prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary a supernatural fog envelops the town, bringing with it the ghosts of those murdered a century ago by Antonio Bay’s founders. The ghosts are out for … Continue reading REVIEW: The Fog (1980)
Horror films seem to lend themselves to franchises, as audiences crave to revisit the monsters and villains that entertained them so much in the earlier instalments. There is more often than not a gradual drop in quality as these franchises … Continue reading REVIEW: Sadako (2019)
We never deserved Robert Wise. Sure, he won two Best Director awards at the Oscars. He absolutely received acclaim for many of his films over the decades. I don’t think anybody claims he was untalented or an ordinary filmmaker. When … Continue reading REVIEW: The Haunting (1963)
Jay (Maika Monroe) goes out to the movies, where her date Hugh (Jake Weary) freaks out after he sees someone at the back of the cinema that Jay cannot. On their second date, and after having sex, Hugh chloroforms Jay. … Continue reading REVIEW: It Follows (2014)
Alcoholic loner Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) lives an itinerant life, still haunted by the ghosts that killed his father and traumatised him as a child. Even after settling into a sense of normality Dan is dragged back into danger when … Continue reading REVIEW: Doctor Sleep (2019)
In the dying days of World War II, a lifeboat of Allied soldiers drifts across the North Atlantic. When the survivors see an approaching Nazi minesweeper, they figure alive and captured is better than dead and board the ship – … Continue reading REVIEW: Blood Vessel (2019)
A man named Fred (Bill Pullman) is approached at a party by a stranger in a black suit and eerie white make-up (Robert Blake). The stranger insists they have met before, in Fred’s house – something that Fred denies. ‘As … Continue reading REVIEW: Lost Highway (1997)
