Coming to select cinemas and on-demand from 1st November, Cellar Door certainly looked interestingly ominous from the trailer, with a couple who acquire a wonderful new home, on the condition that they must not open the locked cellar door. It’s an intriguing-sounding idea, but unfortunately, the final result falls way, way short of the mark. […]
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A pregnant woman experiences some spooky happenings while alone in her new home, before uncovering a disturbing family secret down in the basement and finding herself in a whole heap of nightmares in this German horror movie. And it turned out to be a very well-done and enjoyable thrill ride too. As always, things start
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From French director Alexandre Aja comes Never Let Go, starring Halle Berry as a mother trying to protect her sons in a post-apocalyptic world and hidden away in the woods. It’s a bit of a slow-burner for a while, while the rules of the world are established and repeated over and over again, before suddenly
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Low-budget filmmaker Graham Hughes follows up his 2019 movie ‘Death of a Vlogger’ with ‘Hostile Dimensions’, another found-footage horror involving the same cast and crew. Featuring some fun and clever ideas, it certainly gets off to a promising start. But sadly, the script and the acting eventually let it down, especially when the final act
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Harold and the Purple Crayon is based on a 1955 children’s picture book, which follows a curious young boy named Harold who has the power to create a world of his own simply by drawing it with his magic purple crayon. The film version stars Zachary Levi as a grown-up version of Harold and surprised
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A Quiet Place: Day One takes us right back to the moments leading up to, during, and after, the alien invasion that devastated Earth and left it in the state we found it in when the first movie was released back in 2018. While that movie, along with its 2020 sequel, focused on the Abbott
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It’s fair to say that I’ve been disappointed with a lot of big-screen releases so far this year. Big, impressive trailers that ramp up expectations, but fail to deliver when viewed in the cinema. So, to see an interesting trailer for a much smaller movie, only for it to exceed my expectations upon viewing and
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Coming to Disney+ on Friday 29th March, Renegade Nell is a new fantasy adventure series from writer and executive producer Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack). It’s got highwaymen, dark magic and a little bit of superpower action thrown in for good measure. And it’s a lot of fun too. As is usually the way
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Back for a second season on Disney+ this week is one of my favourite shows from last year, Extraordinary. Season 1 introduced us to Jen, who lives in a world where everyone gains a superpower the moment they turn 18, except for her. We also met housemates Kash and Carrie, along with a stray cat
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Last year gave us a brilliant horror movie about the perils of talking to the dead in the form of Talk to Me. This year, which has already started on shaky ground with the disappointing Night Swim, comes another talk to the dead horror, Alberto Corredor’s Baghead. Sadly, while not quite a total disaster, it’s
This year I decided to change the criteria for finalising my top 5 movies and go with my top 5 first-time watches of the year. It turns out there’s actually only one movie on my list that wasn’t released in 2023, so it hasn’t affected things too much and overall I managed to log more
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Episodes reviewed: 1-6 Gen V is a new 8-part series, coming to Prime Video this Friday and set in the same supe-inhabited world as The Boys, a show that has already racked up three brilliant seasons and is still going strong. Gen V is set in Godolkin University, a prestigious superhero-only college, where students train
It was only recently that I finally managed to watch the brilliant Boiling Point and now director Philip Barantini follows that up with Accused, a psychological thriller that proved to be even more terrifying than any horror I’ve seen so far this year. We meet Harri (Chaneil Kular) as he says goodbye to his girlfriend
Another week, another surprise Odeon screening that’s causing uproar and disappointment online. The clues ahead of this one led us to believe that we would be seeing The Dive, which certainly isn’t a horror film. So what was the issue? Well, this was meant to be a ‘Scream Unseen’ screening, usually a chance to get
The online clues for this week’s Odeon Screen Unseen had many believing that they were going to be treated to an early showing of Blue Beetle. But it turns out that the clues were a little more cryptic than that, and what we got instead was a British dramedy that probably didn’t feature very highly
Having made a name for themselves with popular YouTube channel RackaRacka, Australian twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou have now moved into feature films. Their debut is Talk to Me, a possession horror that, despite faltering somewhat during its second half, still succeeds in impressing overall. All the best horrors open with a nice little
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