2026 Tag Archive
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 […]
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 […]
