Thriller Tag Archive
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 […]
Longlegs
It feels like ages since the first posters for Longlegs dropped and even longer since horror fans had such a potent buzz eruption. The mystery around Oz Perkins’ fourth feature film has been a singular ride for horror hounds, fermented by mysterious posters, Satanic riddles, and the cautious withholding of Nicolas Cage’s visage from marketing. […]
Frenzy
Frenzy, the penultimate film from Alfred Hitchcock, is a far cry from the director’s classics. Hitch had, after all, held a strangle hold on Hollywood for most of the 60’s. He defined cinematic espionage, the psychological thriller, even helped legitimize and popularize the horror film. But Frenzy offers a different kind of Hitchcock. It feels […]
Sick
It’s kind of mad that a new film written by Scream scribe and co-creator Kevin Williamson slipped out into the world unannounced this year. Sick, directed by John Hyams (director of the much loved, sadly overlooked Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning), is a pandemic horror, something we’ll probably see a lot more of over the […]
Aniara – EIFF 2019
Earth is fucked. We all know that, and Sci-fi is increasingly interested in how to deal with how fucked we are. Aniara, from directors Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja, is an epic human-centric look at post-Earth life. Aniara starts off in a well-worn futuristic world where humanity is slowly being evacuated to communes on Mars […]
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Who would have thought back in 2014, that John Wick would survive to fulfil not one, not two, but three exhilarating action epics? Who would have thought that 5 years later we’d all be glued to our seats watching a 54 year-old Keanu Reeves stab, shoot, and bash his way through a world of deadly […]
