The Reckoning, 2020. Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, Suzanne Magowan and Sarah Lambie. SYNOPSIS: Grieving the death of her husband due to the Great Plague, a woman is tortured in the wake of accusations that she is a witch. There’s a big spectre which looms ominously over any British […]
Movie Review – The Banishing (2021)
The Banishing, 2021. Directed by Christopher Smith. Starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Sean Harris, John Lynch, John Heffernan, and Anya McKenna-Bruce. SYNOPSIS: The Banishing tells the story of the most haunted house in England. Set in the 1930s, before the onset of the Second World War, Marianne (Jessica Brown Findlay) moves to an old manor house with […]
Movie Review – Slaxx (2021)
Slaxx, 2021. Directed by Elza Kephart. Starring Romane Denis, Brett Donahue, Sehar Bhojani, Kenny Wong, and Tianna Nori. SYNOPSIS: A possessed pair of jeans hunts down the staff of a trendy clothing store. They are locked in overnight to prepare the new collection, and it is down to new hire Libby (Denis) to figure out how […]
Movie Review – The Columnist (2019)
The Columnist, 2019. Directed by Ivo van Aart. Starring Katja Herbers, Claire Porro, Bram van der Kelen and Rein Hofman. SYNOPSIS: Worn down by constant, vile abuse on social media, a newspaper columnist begins to track down and kill those who threaten her life online. The opening scenes of Dutch horror-comedy The Columnist are as […]
Movie Review – The Owners (2020)
The Owners, 2020. Directed by Julius Berg. Starring Maisie Williams, Ian Kenny, Andrew Ellis, Jake Curran, Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham. SYNOPSIS: A group of young thieves get more than they bargained for when they attempt to burgle the home of an elderly doctor and his wife. Given the prominence of home invasion horror movies, […]
Movie Review – Butchers (2020)
Butchers, 2020. Directed by Adrian Langley. Starring Simon Phillips, Julie Mainville, Anne-Carolyne Binette, Michael Swatton, James Hicks, Frederik Storm and Nick Allan. SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers find themselves in the crosshairs of a family of backwoods folk who think nothing of kidnap, rape and murder. There’s a long horror family tree leading to a […]
Movie Review – Shook (2021)
Shook, 2021. Directed by Jennifer Harrington. Starring Daisye Tutor, Nicola Posener, Octavius J. Johnson, Stephanie Simbari and Emily Goss. SYNOPSIS: A beauty influencer unravels as a routine dog-sitting evening becomes a high-stakes game in which her family and friends are threatened by an unseen predator. Social media influencers are having a moment – and not […]
Movie Review – Dark Whispers Vol. 1 (2019)
Dark Whispers Vol. 1, 2019. Directed by Megan Riakos, Angie Black, Kaitlin Tinker, Isabel Peppard, Briony Kidd, Jub Clerc, Marion Pilowsky, Katrina Irawati Graham, Lucy Gouldthorpe, Madeleine Purdy and Janine Hewitt. Starring Asher Keddie, Anthony LaPaglia, Andrea Demetriades and Bree Desborough. SYNOPSIS: A series of horror tales, linked together via their presence in a mysterious […]
Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)
Synchronic, 2019. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton and Ramiz Monsef. SYNOPSIS: Two paramedics find themselves embroiled in the chaos of a new “designer drug”, which has been linked to several gruesome deaths. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are among the leading modern proponents of […]
Movie Review – Ropes (2019)
Ropes, 2019. Directed by José Luis Montesinos. Starring Paula del Río, Miguel Ángel Jenner and Jordi Aguilar. SYNOPSIS: A disabled girl finds herself trapped in a house with a rabid dog. In the crowded world of horror cinema, a great concept is only half the battle. Many of the best genre efforts of recent years […]
