A film crew is documenting the life of Nim, a Taiwanese shaman who acts as a conduit for an openhearted goddess known as Ba Yan. Equal parts curse and gift it is a destiny that…
Review
Film Review – Séance (2021)
So much paranormal potential eventually hits the mark, albeit non challenging cliched by-the-numbers story set within an elite boarding school for girls whom occasionally stand In front of mirrors chanting in order to conjure spirits.…
Film Review – Jakob’s Wife (2021)
As far back as the 1920s, the wide-reaching landscape of cinema has been littered with films depicting the folklore of vampires. There has been a substantial amount of films about Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sheridan le…
Film Review – The Boy Behind The Door (2020)
Fellow little leaguers Bobby and Kevin are opportunistically abducted in broad daylight. Bobby manages to MacGyver’s his way out of a locked car boot and has sweet freedom at his mercy. However, he refuses to…
Film Review – Kandisha (2021)
During the early 2000s right through to the early 2010s, cinema was littered with transgressive and highly controversial films created by predominately by French filmmakers. Though the movement covered a broad range of subgenres, its…
Film Review – The Call (2020)
Interesting concept, mostly over duration of one night with a group of generally nasty teens given an ultimatum that may benefit them financially, if they make it through alive. Tonya (Erin Sanders) is constantly reminded…
Film Review – Caveat (2020)
After one of the weirdest, most effective openings to a film I have seen in some time, Caveat, turns out to be a simply disorientating creepy Shudder original horror of isolated suspense ridden dread. Laid…
Film Review – The Reckoning (2021)
During a historical black and white beginning, it’s 1665 as the opening scroll informs us, year of ‘the great plague’ before moving forward into the happily married life of Grace (Charlotte Kirk) and Joseph (Joe…
Film Review – Fried Barry (2020)
Since ancient history, humans have been obsessed with the possibility of life beyond our own. The potential for another unidentified species to coexist in the same universe as ours. We yearn to believe in a…
Film Review – The Banishing (2021)
As fascism looms in 1930’s England, we enter an old mansion with ghastly history on an isolated estate as hauntings manifest around new occupants; a jittery priest (John Heffernan), his recently ‘saved’ wife Marianne (Jessica…
Film Review – Violation (2021)
The incident of the title is tough to get through, as is the entire story whilst unravelling before and after scenarios of two not so close sisters and their respective spouses in a beautiful house…
Film Review – The Power (2021)
Let’s be honest, nobody is really a fan of the dark. It’s eerie, unsettling and frankly you could step on something gross or sharp at any moment. It reminds us of the classic scene in…
Film Review – Slaxx (2020)
Log in as another weird Canadian horror with an outrageously delightful macabre sense of humour and few limits of absurdity in a double denim bloodbath. Opening within a field on the subcontinent with a young…
Film Review – Lucky (2020)
An impressive, brisk terror tale begins normal enough without too much of an indication of what frenzy is to follow for an unsuspecting author and her daily encounters with a stranger in the house. Written…