BURIAL ** UK 2022 Dir: Ben Parker. 95 mins Despite a suitably portentous score by Alex Baranowski and effectively eerie woodland camerawork by Rein Kotov, this is a disappointingly dull second feature from writer-director Ben Parker, who made the claustrophobic THE CHAMBER (2016). The framing story initially compels, with the excellent…
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CROC! (aka Crocodile Vengeance) * UK 2022 Dir: Paul W. Franklin. 84 mins The 2007 movie CROC (minus the THEM!-style exclamation mark adorning this one) was an entirely forgettable waste of Michael Madsen’s under-used screen talents…but at least it was vaguely watchable. Its namesake (a rare British foray into the…
STALKER *** UK 2022 Dir: Steve Johnson. 93 mins Elevators became ostensible no-go areas, cable-controlled coffins during the Covid pandemic and have, logically enough, long been a potent backdrop for horrific individual set pieces (DEEP RED / FINAL DESTINATION 2 / DAMIEN: OMEN II) and entire films (Dick Maas’ THE…
EVERYONE FORGOT *** UK 2022 Dir: Theo Kai Marlow. 18 mins Editor / producer / writer / director Theo Kai Marlow follows his 2018, April Fools’ Day-based short THE MOST SAVAGE WEDDING EVER with this effective meld of dark humour and pathos. It opens with a microcosm of loneliness and…
HOUNDED *** UK 2022 Dir: Tommy Boulding. 94 mins Here’s another variation on the oft-adapted THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, transplanted by co-writers Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich (who wrote Christopher Smith’s effective THE BANISHING) to Boris Johnson’s England and unsubtly reminding us of the central themes from the get go:…