Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Fede Alvarez Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore, Jessica Lucas. A group of attractive young college students head off to a remote cabin in the woods and are soon assaulted by supernatural or malevolent forces. This scenario has become a cliche of modern horror films such [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman Stars: Kathryn Newton, Katie Featherston, Matt Shively, Brady Allen, Aiden Lovekamp. The Paranormal Activity series has been a goldmine for producers. Dirt cheap to produce (the first one cost only $14,000 to make and grossed just shy of $200million at the box office) it is [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sean Durkin Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet, Julia Garner, Louise Krause. This dark, haunting, slow burning and creepy psychological drama was one of the more talked about films of last year’s MIFF. A psychological drama about a young woman who emerges back into the [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Pedro Alomodovar Stars: Antonio Banderas, Blanca Suarez, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes. The Skin I Live In is the latest film from flamboyant Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, and it explores some of his usual themes and preoccupations – obsession, sex, sexual identity, transgender issues, love and desire. It also reunites him [...]
by GREG KING. “We thought Human Centipede 2 would be this kind of niche film, that only horror fans would go and see.” Human Centipede 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to Tom Six’s 2009 horror film Human Centipede, in which a sinister surgeon sewed several people together in a bizarre experiment. The film was [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Troy Nixey Stars: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson, Julia Blake, Garry McDonald, Alan Dale, Nicholas Bell. Shot in Melbourne in 2009, this is a remake of a 1973 horror film about a couple who move into a big old house that is occupied by malevolent creatures. That [...]
by GREG KING In John Carpenter’s 1982 cult classic The Thing a US scientific crew in the polar ice cap was threatened by a mysterious alien creature that was able to hide within human hosts. This claustrophobic horror film was itself a remake of Howard Hawks’ 1951 thriller that was heavily laden with cold war [...]
by GREG KING “There are no virgins in this movie!” says Pollyanna McIntosh, when talking about the controversial new horror film The Woman. The Woman is a tough, confronting yet engrossing horror film that eschews the usual formula of serial killers, lots of blood and gore, and screaming virgins running and dying. The film actually [...]
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