Psychological Thriller Tag Archive
It Follows – Sundance 2015
Aside from its prologue, which introduces the threat and what it does, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows presents a hazy kind of
Dark Tourist
Dark Tourist opens with a man sitting in a shady apartment, cracking and salting a boiled egg, then smoking a cigarette with
Treehouse – DVD Review
Even if it feels like an episode of X-Files and looks like it was shot by the Home and Away team, Michael Bartlett’s Treehouse is
Lesson of Evil – Blu-Ray Review
Japanese master of splat Takashi Miike has flirted with the dark and downright seedy since his debut in 1991. From there the
You Are Not Alone – DVD Review
You Are Not Alone, written and directed by Mark Ezra (Slaughter High), follows screenwriter Matt and his musician
The Quiet Ones – Blu-Ray Review
Hammer productions, the British heavyweight in horror, has a varied and vivid history spanning some 60 years.
Absentia – DVD Review
Considering how well writer/director Mike Flanagan’s summer horror Oculus has done, it was always a matter of time before his debut got fast-tracked to a release date. And thank God it did.
Honeymoon – EIFF 2014
For the most part, Leigh Janiak’s debut feature is a romantic melodrama in which its newlywed couple grapple with the overwhelming concept of what marriage really is. It’s not long before things begin to go wrong; thin slivers of doubt creep in and the whole film’s central relationship seems hopelessly stranded on the shores of […]
Chocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla – DBD 2014
Stuart Simpson’s Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla is a strange but welcome kind of cathartic character study. Warren (Glenn Maynard) is an ice cream man, he lives alone with his cat and tunes in daily to his favourite soap opera. However, after an awful accident, Warren’s life begins to spiral out of control: he becomes dangerously obsessed […]
Mindscape – Glasgow FrightFest 2014
The problem with Jorge Dorado’s debut feature Mindscape is that in the three years since Nolan’s Inception, a whole slew of lesser imitators have unfortunately avalanched over any possibility of this film being considered as any kind of unique take on the memory/dream infiltration sub-genre. Which is a shame because his first is an accomplished […]
