2024 has been a dismally disappointing year for films. Looking on Letterboxd, I have barely watched 200 new films this year, which is far lower than any year since 2019. Tv shows have been more entertaining, and an all-round more satisfying experience, and I blame the rise of streaming services for this. Many films now […]

Okay, I’ll admit it. Perhaps my expectations were a little too high, I really enjoy this director, and I have been hanging for a Copycat/Se7en/Silence of the Lambs type film for a while now… Why did all the good ones come out in the 90s??However, the caveat to that is that the friends I attended […]

I’ll be honest, when I heard the premise of this film, and watched the trailer, I had certain expectations. A combination of ‘Rosemarys Baby’ and ‘The Exorcist’ was pretty much what was in my head.It opens with a nasty murder that certainly lingers in your mind before we embark on the story of Cecelia, Sydney […]

One of the first films I watched in 2023, this film stars a who’s who of talented actresses and is directed by actress Sarah Polley. It tells the story of a group of Mennonite women coming together to discuss how they will proceed in the face of horrific systemic abuse at the hands of the […]

When I heard a rumor that they were remaking The Exorcist, I was livid. The Exorcist (1973) directed by William Friedkin based on the book by William Peter Blatty is an Oscar nominated stone cold classic horror movie; and I find it so disrespectful to the genre that they keep remaking films that are classics. […]

Grief is a frequent feature of horror movies; horror used as a way to explore those emotions so much like a physical pain, as awful as any masked killer. New Australian horror film Talk to me centers on Mia (Sophie Wilde), still mourning the loss of her mother to an accidental overdose the year before. […]

Let me preface this article by saying that I chose not to include horrors loosely based on an amalgamation of real stories such as Wolf Creek, stories that were just inspired by real life such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho, or movies that were sparked by real stories such as A Nightmare on Elm […]

Let me be clear, this subgenre has it’s detractors, it’s doubters, let’s face it – outright haters! and while I love this type of horror film, I can see why. It practically thumbs it’s nose at stylistic horror classics such as Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, and A Tale of Two Sisters, in this it is […]

Though I’m aware that ‘based on a story by Stephen King’ can give some people pause, for me it’s essentially catnip. In my humble opinion the guy is a certified genius and I have loved nearly everything he has written, and nearly every film that has come from his work. Hell, anyone who knows me […]

Beginning with a title screen informing the viewer that the year is 2020 and that to date there have been X amount of people infected and X amount of people have died from Covid; we are introduced to friends Parker (Gideon Adlon) and Bethlehem (Miri Woodlow). They have decided to quarantine from College at Parker’s […]