horror
VOD film review: Addams Family Values (1993)
October 30, 2020 | Mark HarrisonIts title may beat around the Bush, but this superior sequel goes straight for the jugular.Read More
The Witches review: Darkly entertaining family horror
October 28, 2020 | David FarnorAnne Hathaway is a delight in this entertaining but uneven adaptation of Roald Dahl’s dark tale.Read More
VOD film review: Nocturne
October 13, 2020 | David FarnorThis tale of a music student possessed by obsessive ambition is a creepy, atmospheric chamber piece.Read More
VOD film review: The Devil All the Time
September 19, 2020 | Luke ChannellThis sprawling, superbly performed mid-Western Gothic is relentlessly bleak, brutally violent and constantly engrossing.Read More
VOD film review: 12 Hour Shift
August 28, 2020 | Anton BitelBrea Grant’s portrait of a nurse’s night shift is a “slice of life” in more than one sense.Read More
VOD film review: She Dies Tomorrow
August 28, 2020 | Anton BitelAmy Seimetz’s low-key memento mori delivers a panicky relay race of existential dread. Read More
The Lighthouse (2019) review: Brilliantly unnerving
June 17, 2020 | David FarnorWillem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson are brilliantly unnerving in this clammy, claustrophobic horror.Read More
The Shining review: A labyrinthine masterpiece
June 3, 2020 | David FarnorStanley Kubrick’s genuinely creepy Stephen King adaptation is a labyrinthine masterpiece. Read More
VOD film review: The Addams Family (2019)
June 2, 2020 | David FarnorThis well-cast animated update of The Addams Family is neither mysterious or spooky.Read More
Swallow review: An unsettling psychological thriller
April 25, 2020 | David FarnorHaley Bennett is chillingly good in this unsettling psychological thriller that’s hard to stomach.Read More