‘A potent combination of what scares us in our imaginations and what should scare us in the world outside…’ Rolling Stone ‘Takes a dark chapter in world history and gives it both a humanising and ghostly touch’ RogerEbert.com ‘Anthology drama returns with a new and very different tale……
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THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND ** USA 2020 Creators: Scott M. Gimple & Matthew Negrete. Writers: Scott M. Gimple, Matthew Negrete, Ben Sokolowski, The Farahanis, Sinead Daly, Rohit Kumar, Maya Goldsmith, Eddie Guzelian, Elizabeth Padden. Dir: Magnus Martens, Sharat Raju, Rachel Leiterman, Dan Liu, Michael Cudlitz, Loren Yaconelli, Sydney Freeland.…
THE DARK AND THE WICKED *** USA 2020 Dir: Bryan Bertino. 95 mins Filmed on a meager budget on the farm of talented writer-director Bertino, this is a supremely creepy mood piece unfolding, as in THE SHINING, over a period of increasingly blurred days of the week appearing onscreen to…
JAKOB’S WIFE **** USA 2021 Dir: Travis Stevens. 98 mins Writer-director Travis Stevens follows up his superb feature directing debut GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR (2019) with this witty, gruesome genre piece set in the knowingly named Kinski County. At the core is a bravura transformation from Barbara Crampton –…
SÉANCE *** USA 2021 Dir: Simon Barrett. 92 mins Simon Barrett has been writing excellent horror movies for over a decade, from the underrated DEAD BIRDS (2004) to a series of fruitful collaborations with director Adam Wingard: A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE (2010), YOU’RE NEXT (2011), V/H/S (2012) THE GUEST…