When you are a connoisseur of horror films you are acutely aware of the patterns that emerge in certain sub-genres such as ‘psycho killer stalker’, ‘backwoods hillbilly killers’, ‘haunted house’, ‘devil possession’ etc. – they have formulas and if you’ve seen enough of them, you can tick those cues off like blowing out candles; the […]
Ti West’s The Innkeepers has a lot of foreplay, it takes a long long time before the action gets going – we’re talking a good hour of just hanging with the two employees left behind in the hotel’s last days, shooting the breeze, watching them dance around their chemistry and basically try to amuse themselves […]
2010 Frozen – Middle of the night, middle of the forest, middle of winter, and you’re trapped on a chairlift….A what-would-you-do three hander that is as chilling as it’s title. Insidious – Some great actors add weight to film that could have come across as ‘silly’ but is instead effectively nightmare-worthy. Altitude – And at […]
*Spoilers!! * Prometheus is a film with a lot of baggage. You hear that Ridley Scott is making a prequel to the phenomenally successful and critically acclaimed ‘Alien’ and you have some serious expectations. You expect (of course) a strong female lead, you expect the appearance of aliens/a certain character of alien/a certain look, you […]
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