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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The wait is finally over, after what feels like eons since the US release, Run finally arrived on UK shores via Netflix on the 2nd April. Was it worth the wait? Teenager Chloe (Kiera Allen) lives at home with caring mother Diane (Sarah Paulson). Chloe is driven and independent, but due to a myriad of
Sensation is a 2021 sci-fi thriller from Slovakian director Martin Grof, the latest in a long line of films to feature people with superhuman abilities. The plot here focuses on a group of people with newly discovered sensory powers that can influence and control the senses of others, as they’re confined within a large manor
Calls is a new nine-episode series coming to Apple TV+ on March 19th and is based on a CANAL Plus French series by Timothée Hochet, which itself is based on a short film Hochet directed in 2016. This version is directed by Fede Álvarez (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead) and follows a very basic premise in
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the latest stylised true-crime documentary from Netflix, and it’s a pretty scary watch, but not in the way you’d expect from something that has been advertised as a supernatural murder mystery. The 4 episode documentary series focuses on a notorious hotel in downtown L.A, Hotel Cecil,
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Coming to Netflix on February 17th, Behind Her Eyes is a six-episode adaptation of the best-selling 2017 book by Sarah Pinborough and comes from the producers of The Crown. The show centres around the life of single mum Louise, who becomes entangled in a love triangle with new boss David and his wife Adele. However,
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Film #10 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: The Prestige The Prestige is one of 3 Christopher Nolan films on this bucket list (the others being Memento and The Dark Knight), and probably the one that has least recognition out of the three. In fact, I’d say it’s criminally underrated. It focuses on two rival
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Like many film fans, in the run-up to the end of the year, I’m taking stock of the films I’ve seen and compiling a best of – which should be on the site by the end of the week. Being extra diligent this year, I’ve been trying to catch up on as many UK 2020
Late one stormy night, DJ Rod Wilson is hosting Nightmare Radio, a show dedicated to horror. In between music and ads for local companies, Rod recounts creepy stories while inviting his listeners to phone in with their own tales of the paranormal. When he begins to receive strange calls from a child in desperate need
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The Rhythm Section is a 2020 action thriller based on a book of the same name written by Mark Burnell. Directed by Reed Moreno, it stars Blake Lively as Stephanie Patrick, a young woman bent on revenge against the terrorists who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her entire family. From the very beginning, you
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Film #5 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Memento I have to admit, I may be a little biased when it comes to Memento. Christopher Nolan is my favourite director and Memento is both one of my favourite films of his and one of my favourite films of all time. For me, this undoubtedly deserves
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Film #2 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Seven (Se7en) The second film on my 100 Movies Bucket List is Seven, a film I know and love. Seven (1995) is directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, as two detectives investigating a serial killer murdering people according to the seven deadly
The Ringmaster, aka Finale, is a 2018 Danish horror feature film written and directed by Søren Juul Petersen. It is based on Steen Langstrups award-winning book from 2011 ‘Alt det hun ville ønske hun ikke forstod’ (Everything that she wished she did not understand’) and deals with themes involving man’s need for extreme entertainment and
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Rebecca is an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s 1938 novel of the same name, following a young woman’s whirlwind romance and her battle to rid her new marriage and home of the shadow of her husband’s first wife. Rebecca as a novel is a classic and a book I very much enjoyed, and whilst I’ve
Saint Maud is a psychological horror about a young nurse (Morfydd Clark) who, following ‘an incident’ while working for the NHS, something horrific that is alluded to in the opening scene, now finds herself working in palliative care. Maud is a lonely, isolated, and very religious young woman, and as she sits in her sparse
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On paper, the concept behind She Dies Tomorrow is an intriguing one – “Amy thinks she’s dying tomorrow…and it’s contagious..”. And when we featured the trailer in one of our recent TrailerChat posts, it certainly sparked a lot of interest among the team too, with the trailer providing just enough mystery to make us want
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