Evil Dead Burn
Since it was announced that Sebastien Vanicek was helming the next Evil Dead film, I’ve been hyped. The French director has only one credit to his name, 2024’s Infested, but what a debut it was. Gross, brutal, inventive, and slick as hell, it was a great job application for joining the Evil Dead franchise. Vanicek’s entry, the third without Bruce Campbell or Sam […]
Dracula A Love Tale
When you hear about Luc Besson’s latest film Dracula A Love Tale there’s something you might be thinking: Do we really need another Dracula adaptation? It’s the most adapted novel ever written, there’s a version of Bram Stoker’s vampiric Count for every decade since the 30s and most years since the 60s. Its popularity doesn’t dwindle. Besson’s Dracula paints a picture of a love-stupid and chaotic young Prince (Caleb Landry Jones, Antiviral), who goes to war, loses the love of his life […]
Cold Storage
What if the greatest threat to mankind isn’t some soon-to-be-discovered lethal pathogen, but something already here, known, and soon-to-be unleashed? This is the set-up for Cold Storage Jonny Campbell’s sci-fi splatter film adapted from the novel by David Koepp, famed screenwriter of Jurrassic Park, Spider-Man, and Panic Room to name a few. Like Michael Crichton before him, Koepp imbibes his script with a touch of […]
Dust Bunny
What does a Bryan Fuller film look like? That’s what many of us were thinking when the man behind TV hits Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, and Star Trek Discovery teased Dust Bunny back in 2022. The writer/producer has made a name for himself with quirky, comic, and macabre properties, securing a huge cult following with the currently dormant, but beloved, Hannibal TV adaptation starring Mads Mikkelsen. Whilst there’s no news of Hannibal season 4, fans can whet their appetite with the […]
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Since 2009 Belgian duo Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani have been crafting exquisite genre love letters. Their brand of eye-candy visuals and intensely sensuous sound design are instantly recognisable, as are the influences they flaunt so proudly. Their first and second features, Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, are odes to Italian Giallo whilst their third, Let the Corpses Tan, is a dive into the world of Spaghetti Westerns. Reflection in a Dead Diamond, their fourth film and first in 8 years, takes on the psychedelic, far-fetched, and fantastical Euro crime […]
Top 10 Films 2025
2025 was another superb year for great genre films and though there’s a lack of festival coverage in this year’s Top 10, for the most part the offerings from local cinemas and big studios were of such a high calibre, it hasn’t left me short of films to rave about. 2025 was a rough year in the real world, politically, economically, you name […]
Cuckoo
Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo has been one of the most hyped horror films of 2024. No easy task considering this is the year of Longlegs, Trap, Alien: Romulus, and Maxxxine to name just a few. Back in 2018, Singer’s Luz was the darling of the festival circuit, a dreamy take on possession horror with a queer slant […]
Strange Darling
After a season of big blockbusters and gripping genre offerings, JT Mollner’s Strange Darling brins an intriguing and explosive full stop to summer 2024. Even amidst the likes of Longlegs and Cuckoo, Mollner’s latest is the quiet underdog, arriving with a host of rave reviews from its limited but lauded cinematic release. Kicking off with an […]
The Velvet Vampire
Vampires tread a world between extremes. So full of life, but surrounded by death. They are the ultimate consumers, perfectly placed to spend eons accruing wealth, luxury, property, knowledge, and taste, yet doomed to spend eternity starved of pleasures like food and wine and love. Eternally hungry. Eternally horny. Sometimes monstrous. Often Gorgeous. Its a […]
My Soul to Take
Though Scream 4 was Wes Craven’s final film before his death in 2015, My Soul to Take was the last film he wrote, directed, and produced. Much derided on release this overstuffed slasher takes us on a messy thematic tour of Craven’s hits and, whilst not as clean-cut as the Scream film which came after […]
