‘Cuts deep… reminiscent of Cronenberg’s freaky ’80s masterpiece The Fly… delightfully provocative…’ ★★★★ NME ‘Akin to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return… Thoughtful, poignant, confusing, funny, sexy, gross – it’s a lot… long live the new flesh’ Little White Lies From the auteur of body horror himself – visionary director David Cronenberg – comes…
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SWALLOW ***** USA / France 2019 Dir: Carlo Mirabella-Davis. 94 mins There are echoes of Todd Haynes’ [SAFE] in this haunting psychological horror piece about an alienated woman’s desperate retreat into a condition that provides her with the comfort and fulfillment lacking elsewhere – though Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ feature debut is…
RABID *** Canada 2019 Dir: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska. 107 mins The first line in the Soska sisters’ RABID is about remaking art. The 2019 incarnation of Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is a repressed vegan fashion designer with aspirations of fame and a shallow British “sister” (Hanneke Talbot) whose insights include…
Carpenter, Cronenberg and Eli Roth lead a summer charge of seasonal shockers on Horror Channel this July. Considered one of David Cronenberg’s early genre classics, SCANNERS was based on Cronenberg’s scripts The Sensitives and Telepathy 2000, which he planned to pitch to Roger Corman. Starring Michael Ironside and Patrick McGoohan, the film went on to became…
In 2020, Grimmfest will pay tribute to four Legends of Horror, in the suitably elegant, art-deco surroundings of Stockport Plaza. Experience classics of the genre in suitably grand, elegant style, in the most beautiful Picture Palace in the region. Grimmfest has partnered with The Horror Channel to offer big screen…