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REVIEW: Doctor Sleep (2019)

August 16, 2020 Grant Watson

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)

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REVIEW: Blood Vessel (2019)

August 4, 2020August 13, 2020 Grant Watson

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)

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REVIEW: Lost Highway (1997)

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Grant Watson

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)

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REVIEW: Happy Death Day (2017)

July 10, 2020 Grant Watson

University student “Tree” Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) wakes up from a drunken night partying only to find herself trapped in a time loop. The same things happen to her every day, and no matter what else she manages to change her … Continue reading REVIEW: Happy Death Day (2017)

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REVIEW: The Dead (2010)

July 9, 2020 Grant Watson

US army mechanic Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) wakes up on a beach in West Africa, having survived a plane crash. The country is in chaos. It is everyone for themselves – and the dead are walking the African wilderness. The … Continue reading REVIEW: The Dead (2010)

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REVIEW: Black House (1999)

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Grant Watson

Wakatasuki, a young employee at an insurance firm, receives a telephone call from a woman asking if her life insurance policy covers her committing suicide. Concerned for her welfare, he rushes to her house only to stumble upon the dead … Continue reading REVIEW: Black House (1999)

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REVIEW: It: Chapter Two (2019)

June 24, 2020 Grant Watson

Twenty-seven years after a group of children ventured into the sewers of Derry, Maine, to defeat a mysterious shapeshifting killer, a new spate of murders reveals that what they thought was dead has returned: and a promise to come home … Continue reading REVIEW: It: Chapter Two (2019)

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REVIEW: In the Tall Grass (2019)

May 19, 2020 Grant Watson

Siblings Becky (Laysla De Oliviera) and Cal (Avery Whitted) stop their car beside a thick cornfield, and hear a young boy’s plaintive cries for help. They enter the field to lead the boy out, only to get lost themselves – … Continue reading REVIEW: In the Tall Grass (2019)

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REVIEW: Midsommar (2019)

April 5, 2020 Grant Watson

College student Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) is already suffering from depression, but when her sister commits a murder-suicide of Dani’s entire family it drives her to her emotional limits. She takes respite in a trip from the USA to Sweden … Continue reading REVIEW: Midsommar (2019)

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REVIEW: Missing (2019)

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 Grant Watson

In Missing (not to be confused with the identically named Tsui Hark horror film from 2008) a grieving daughter (Gillian Chung) receives new hope when her long-vanished father’s police badge is found in a forest outside of Hong Kong. In her … Continue reading REVIEW: Missing (2019)

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