The House of the Devil, 2009.Directed by Ti West. Starring Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Mary Wornov, and Tom Noonan.SYNOPSIS:Cash-strapped college student Samantha responds to a job advert asking for a babysitter, hoping to use the earnings to help pay for her new apartment. However, when she arrives for the job, Samantha finds herself fighting for […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 13 – Alien 3 (1992)
Alien 3, 1992.Directed by David Fincher. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S. Dutton, Brian Glover, and Lance Henriksen.SYNOPSIS:An escape pod containing Ripley, Newt and Hicks crash lands on a wind-battered prison planet, with Ripley being the sole survivor. Finding herself trapped on a planet whose entirely male population consists of murderers and rapists, Ripley […]
Movie Review – Loving Vincent (2017)
Loving Vincent, 2017.Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. Featuring the Voice Talents of Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Chris O’Dowd, Helen McRory, Holly Earl, Aidan Turner, Josh Burdett, Eleanor Tomlinson, John Sessions, James Greene, Martin Herdman, Bill Thomas, and Robert Gulaczyk.SYNOPSIS:A feature film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh.It is […]
61st London Film Festival Review – The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 2017.Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Bob Camp, and Alicia Silverstone.SYNOPSIS:A highly successful surgeon takes a teenage boy under his wing. But the boy’s behaviour turns sinister and the surgeon’s life starts to fall apart.Beware, as they say, Greeks bearing […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 12 – It (1990)
It, 1990.Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Starring Tim Curry, Jonathan Brandis, Seth Green, Emily Perkins, Brandon Crane, Adam Faraizl, Marlon Taylor, Ben Heller, Richard Thomas, John Ritter, Annette O’Toole, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Tim Reid, and Richard Masur.SYNOPSIS:A group of childhood friends are reunited after a spate of gruesome murders in their former hometown suggest […]
Movie Review – The Snowman (2017)
The Snowman, 2017.Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, Toby Jones, J.K. Simmons, Chloe Sevigny, and Sofia Helin.SYNOPSIS:When an elite crime squad’s lead detective (Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – On Chesil Beach (2017)
On Chesil Beach, 2017.Directed by Dominic Cooke. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Adrian Scarborough, and Bebe Cave.SYNOPSIS: Young newlyweds Edward and Florence arrive at their seaside hotel for their honeymoon in the 1960s, full of anticipation as to what married life has in store for them. As they grapple […]
Movie Review – Happy Death Day (2017)
Happy Death Day, 2017.Directed by Christopher Landon. Starring Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Jason Bayle, Phil Vu, and Rob Mello.SYNOPSIS:A college student relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity.Sitting through Happy Death Day is akin to watching a […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 11 – Aliens (1986)
Aliens, 1986.Directed by James Cameron. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn, and Bill Paxton.SYNOPSIS:After her warnings about the monstrous creatures that killed her crew go unheeded, Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo, is recruited by the military to return to the cursed alien planet when a human colony […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 10 – The Thing (1982)
The Thing, 1982.Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, and David Clennon.SYNOPSIS:The crew of an American research facility in the Arctic is forced to battle with a shape-shifting alien life form that is able perfectly to mimic the appearance and characteristics of any living thing it comes into contact […]
