A new short film releasing on demand on 21 st August, We Die Alone takes an uncomfortable look at modern dating, the difficulty of human connection and our pre-determined judgements of others. Aidan spends his time online dating but can never work up the courage to make it to the dates, instead staying home and […]
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The opening credits for Unhinged paint a pretty bleak and horrific snapshot of human life, just to get us in the mood for what’s to come. Footage of actual road rage incidents, supermarket disagreements and brawls, cars crashing into each other, all while recordings of news readers talk about how stressed and angry we all
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Business startup partners Charlie (Dan Stevens) and Mina (Sheila Vand) are celebrating the success of their company by looking at Airbnb rentals for a weekend getaway. As Mina casually rests on Charlie, looking over his shoulder at the amazing, but expensive house they’re thinking of renting, you get the impression they are a couple. That
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This Spanish sci-fi horror thriller, which landed on Netflix last Friday, probably isn’t going to help with any self-isolation anxiety that you may be experiencing at the moment.
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Locke and Key has one of the most interesting and out there premises currently showing on TV – in my humble opinion. After their father’s murder, the 3 Locke children move with their mother to their fathers’ ancestral home in Matheson Massachusetts; Key House. As it turns out, this is a rather magical house – or rather it contains several magical
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Back in 1974, a low-budget Canadian horror movie by the name of Black Christmas was released and was one of the first to define the slasher movie template that we’ve now become so heavily accustomed to. Black Christmas already got a remake back in 2006 and now we have another, coming this time from powerhouse
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Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a down on his luck loner, currently taking seven different kinds of medication and living with his frail old mother (Frances Conroe). Arthur fantasises about living a ‘normal’ life, with hopes of becoming a stand up comedian and dating his next door neighbour, and the lines between reality and fantasy
It’s fair to say that IT Chapter 2 has been one of my most anticipated movies this year. The trailer, which I’ve probably watched just as many times now as I watched the Endgame trailer, gives me goosebumps every time, and I couldn’t wait to rejoin the losers club for another battle with Pennywise the
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Obviously I’m not familiar with the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books that this movie is based upon – a series of three books containing short horror stories for children and drawing heavily on urban legend and folklore for it’s subject matter, with the first being published in 1981. Apparently, the series is
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Annabelle Comes Home is the third standalone movie for the creepy looking doll since her introduction during the original Conjuring movie. It’s also the seventh feature movie from the ever expanding ‘Conjuring Universe’, a series of movies that have seen wildly varying degrees of quality and success thus far. I tend to start my reviews
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The original John Wick movie in 2014 was one hell of a pleasant surprise. Keanu Reeves exploded onto the screen as the retired contract killer, sporting sharp suits and expertly taking out the bad guys who stole his prized car, and killed his dog. Beautifully choreographed, intensely satisfying action – just pure escapism. John Wick
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I’ve said it before, The Conjuring is my all time favourite scary movie. However, since the success of that first movie, there have been a number of spin off movies, in an bid to build what’s now known as the ‘Conjuring Universe’. These movies have all varied in quality, ranging from the not too bad
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Here we have the second movie adaptation of the classic novel by my favourite author Stephen King, with the first being released way back in 1989! Being a massive fan of the book, it definitely sparked my interest when I heard news of a new movie version. I haven’t read the book in years, nor
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I came away from ‘Us’ with a number of very different feelings. It kept me seriously on edge for the majority of it, making me feel uncomfortable and at times confused. It’s taken me a while to try and digest it all and to decide whether or not I actually even enjoyed it. The movie
The original Happy Death Day was a real pleasant surprise. A cross between Groundhog Day and Scream, with our heroine being killed by a baby face mask wearing killer every day, only to wake up again at the start of the same day. With a long list of potential suspects, and slowly feeling the effects
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It appears there’s just no stopping Clint Eastwood. Not only does he star in The Mule, a movie ‘inspired by a true story’, but he’s also on producing and directing duties too. Just when you think you’ve seen him in his last ever role, he’s back, 88 years old and still going strong! Eastwood is
