In The Earth is the latest film from director Ben Wheatley, a hallucinogenic trip into the woods that you definitely want to forget the next morning. Despite an intriguing opening act, the film descends into utter confusion which had me leaving the cinema scratching my head in despair. Known for unusual and/or cult films like […]
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Unearth is a bleak story involving two struggling farming families in rural Pennyslvania, and the eco-horror that is unleashed when fracking unearths and something lying deep beneath their farmland. Unearth is the directorial debut of Dorota Swies, who teams up with John C Lyons for this horror drama, coming to DVD and digital download from
My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To is a 2021 horror drama and first feature film from writer-director Jonathan Cuartas. While the trailer might make this out to be a tense and terrifying horror, what actually unfolds is a slow-burning yet rather captivating family drama with a little vampirism thrown in. The film
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Before I began writing my review for season two of Black Summer, which arrives on Netflix later this week, I checked over my review for season one. To be honest, I could pretty much copy most of what I wrote for that season and paste it into the review for this one, as it all
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw is, unsurprisingly, the latest film in the Saw movie franchise. Instead of being a reboot, remake or direct sequel, Spiral is set within the same universe a number of years after the death of John Kramer. The brainchild of self-confessed Saw super fan Chris Rock, I had high hopes
Back in 2018, A Quiet Place was just a wonderful surprise, full of prolonged edge-of-seat drama and tension along with wonderfully executed jump scares. And, if you were watching it in the cinema with a crowd of people, it also demonstrated that humans are in fact incapable of keeping quiet. Some people seem to be
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Things Heard and Seen is a 2021 Netflix original released at the end of April. It’s part gothic horror, part supernatural drama, part thriller, with a bit of art history and religious iconography thrown in. While it sounds interesting, sadly this eclectic mix of themes and genres makes for nothing more than a rather confusing
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It’s no secret that The Conjuring is one of my favourite scary movies, I think I’ve probably mentioned it when reviewing the many inferior entries that have arrived in The Conjuring universe since (see The Nun or some of the Annabelle movies). The Devil Made Me Do It is now the eighth movie set in
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It’s been a long time since a blockbuster “of the Dead” zombie film hit our screens (since 2009 with Romero’s Survival of the Dead), so expectations of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead were high. I’m a huge fan of zombie films and after a mixed bag of a trailer I had my concerns, and
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I went into The Unholy having seen nothing but a few screenshots and a brief synopsis, which described it as being a religious horror. To be honest, it was day one of Cineworld reopening its doors, and I hadn’t seen a movie on the big screen since last October when I watched another religious horror
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Initiation is a 2020 horror film set within an American fraternity and sorority, that appeared in the trailer to be a generic trashy millennial horror that we’ve seen countless times before. However, the end result is a surprisingly serious yet gory horror with a very powerful storyline that sadly isn’t quite fully realised. Set on
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Fear of Rain is a 2021 psychological thriller written and directed by Castille Brandon, which follows a young woman with schizophrenia struggling to deal with her hallucinations. While this tries very hard to make you as a viewer question what’s real and what isn’t, ultimately it comes off as a little too predictable. Madison Iseman
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“FEAR has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run. Or, Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours” A sickness has spread, restricting travel and resulting in the introduction of curfews and checkpoints. The military had to get involved, building walls through the mountains before leaving, cutting people off from the outside world. As more people
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In Planes Trains and Automobiles, there’s a moment when Neil Page (Steve Martin) finally snaps, ripping into his annoying travel companion Dell Griffith, (John Candy). He tells him the way people usually approach telling stories, saying “You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting”, before hitting him with the line “you’re a
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Antebellum is a 2020 thriller film from debut writer-directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the trailer for which implied it was a mind-bending, time-travelling horror story set during the times of slavery in America. However Antebellum never manages to live up to what it promised, turning out instead to be a rather dull and predictable
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If you’ve already seen the Korean zombie survival movie #Alive, currently streaming on Netflix, you’ll begin to get a strong feeling of deja vu as you watch Final Days (FKA Alone). It turns out that Matt Naylor, who wrote #Alive, also had a hand in writing this American version, with both movies coming out during
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