Grimmfest 2024 – Film Review – HERESY (WITTE WIEVEN) (2024)
Beautifully crafted folk horror that holds a mirror to the patriarchal obsession of minimising and persecuting women through the conduit...
Bradley Hadcroft
Strange Darling Review
A reimagining of the "final girl" trope that manipulates and mauls through an aggressive symphony of 35mm hyper-realism. A ruthless...
Grimmfest 2024 – Preview
Grimmfest is always one of the highlights of the film festival calendar. This year, it takes place from 3 to...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Charlotte (2024)
Dramas don't come darker than this—the astonishing central performance and a stunning final third will fry your mind. Abused and...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – AZRAEL (2024)
This gruelling survival horror replaces dialogue with torrents of gore to deliver a tour de force of genre greatness. Azrael...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Members Club (2024)
Dick ripping balls to the wall horror-comedy packed with filthy laughs and gruesome gore. Veteran male stripping troupe Wet Dreams...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Strange Darling (2024)
A reimagining of the "final girl" trope that manipulates and mauls through an aggressive symphony of 35mm hyper-realism. A ruthless...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Protein (2024)
Classy cannibal crime picture precision-crafted with heart, humour, and humanism. Traumatised by war, the enigmatic Sion arrives in South Wales...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Traumatika (2024)
Taboo-shredding possession film that weaponises deep psychological trauma to the point of fetishism. Mikey's 'Mommy' is on the turn. Her...
Review – An Taibhse (The Ghost)
The highly atmospheric Irish-language ghost movie An Taibhse entombs a disturbing secret under a stratum of jump scares and dares...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – PÁRVULOS (2024)
Parvulos is a superior survival horror invigorates the pandemic apocalypse blueprint with heart-wrenching family drama, jet-black hilarity, and vicious coming-of-age...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – The Dead Thing (2024)
Sexual intensity and emotional co-dependency in a swipe-fixated society are distorted through a supernatural lens in this enthusiastic app-based horror...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – Steppenwolf (2024)
Steppenwolf is an unrelentingly violent neo-Western from Kazakhstan channels the animalistic element of Hesse's infamous counterculture novel to mirror the...
Film Review – In A Violent Nature (2024)
The traditional perspective of slasher cinema transitions from teen victims to the undead monster that stalks them in this ferocious...