The Severed Sun, 2024. Directed by Dean Puckett. Starring Toby Stephens, Emma Appleton, Barney Harris, Lewis Gribben, James Swanton, and Jodhi May. SYNOPSIS: Paranoia creeps into a secluded religious community after a local man is murdered, with some believing a mythical beast is waiting in the woods. Despite a massive resurgence a couple of years […]
Religious folk horror The Severed Sun gets a trailer and poster
Dark Star Pictures has released a poster and trailer for the British folk horror The Severed Sun. Written and directed by Dean Puckett, the film centres on Magpie, a young woman who awakens a supernatural beast that terrorises her community after she kills her abusive husband. The cast includes Emma Appleton, Toby Stephens, Barney Harris, […]
Movie Review – Apartment 7A (2024)
Apartment 7A, 2024. Directed by Natalie Erika James. Starring Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally, Jim Sturgess, Marli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Andrew Buchan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Julia Westcott-Hutton, Nikkita Chadha, James Swanton, Anton Blake Horowitz, Patrick Lyster, Amy Leeson, Brooke Walter, Mellanie Hubert, and Scott Hume. SYNOPSIS: A struggling dancer finds herself drawn into dark forces […]
Movie Review – Stopmotion (2024)
Stopmotion, 2024. Directed by Robert Morgan. Starring Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, Tom York, Caoilinn Springall, James Swanton, Jaz Hutchins, and Joshua J. Parker. SYNOPSIS: A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Nothing suffocates an artist like having their creativity controlled. In visionary director Robert Morgan’s Stopmotion (co-writing […]
Movie Review – Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
Broadcast Signal Intrusion, 2021. Directed by Jacob Gentry. Starring Harry Shum Jr., Kelley Mack, Chris Sullivan, James Swanton, Justin Welborn, Madrid St. Angelo, Jennifer Jelsema, Arif Yampolsky, Michael B. Woods, and Steve Pringle. SYNOPSIS: In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark […]
Blu-ray Review – Host (2020)
Host, 2020. Directed by Rob Savage. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Seylan Baxter and James Swanton. SYNOPSIS: A séance performed via Zoom goes horribly wrong. It was only a matter of time before ‘Lockdown Horror’ became a thing and the first past the post to claim this inevitable […]
