The short version: Benson and Moorhead’s Spring (2014) is an excellent independent film, and absolutely worth watching if you are either a fan of their other works (The Endless and Synchronic are their two most recent films) or a fan of independent genre … Continue reading REVIEW: Spring (2014)
On the run from an abusive boyfriend, American Greta Evans (Lauren Cohan) takes up a job as a nanny in a remote English manor. Upon arrival she discovers her charge is not a child but a porcelain doll named Brahms. … Continue reading REVIEW: The Boy (2015)
Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. So, I argue, is the value that one ascribes to extreme cinema. Whether filled with frank or graphic sexual imagery, or packed with gory violence and bloodshed, or even … Continue reading REVIEW: Bliss (2019)
Blumhouse Productions continues to have a remarkable effect on American screen horror, making an ongoing array of well-produced features ranging from the rock-solid to the exceptional. While obviously some films have been better than others, the general quality has been … Continue reading REVIEW: Sweetheart (2019)
The late Wes Craven looms large as one of Hollywood’s most influential horror filmmakers, largely due to the one-two punch of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and Scream (1996). During the period between his two most famous film, he also directed The People Under … Continue reading REVIEW: The People Under the Stairs (1991)
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)
