Costume drama meets extreme cinema, with horror film elements, plus a suspicion of satire and exploitation film in the mix too. Cries and Whispers is intense enough to cover all these bases, while powerfully demonstrating the basic human need for physical intimacy and the basic human fears of pain and death.
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Actor turned writer-director Romola Garai, her actors and creative team have created a vividly unique horror film for our times. Amulet is unsettling, nightmarish, claustrophobic, scary, gory and pretty smart too.
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Appealingly deadzone, this horror thriller from the writer of You’re Next mixes schoolgirl nastiness, gore and supernatural trappings to nice effect.
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Spooky, real locations, the always watchable Mullan and Caruso and a compelling absence of special effects make this horror film something special.
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Bounty hunter Tigrero (Kinski) knows his days of making money from legalised murder are numbered, so he sets about trapping and killing as many outlaws as possible, as fast as he can.
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Cops and robbers, old school Hong Kong style: Ringo Lam’s gritty take on the genre provides some great action sequences but the whole thing looks a bit dated.
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Crazy Nicolas Cage in a post-apocalyptic western with added samurai swordplay? It sounds brilliant. But maverick Japanese director Sono Sion doesn’t really deliver the goods.
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Probably the best home entertainment experience of my year, this well-curated set of beautifully restored, old school kung fu films is a wonder in every way.
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Chuck Steel is a pumped up and maxed out stop motion animation comedy homage to 80s action films. It is packed with gory horror fun that’s just right for Halloween.
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Omar (El-Masry) is a young Syrian who is awaiting a decision on his refugee status. He is living with half a dozen other refugees in a shared house in a remote and windswept location.
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