THE DARK RED ** USA 2018 Dir: Dan Bush. 102 mins Brought up in social care after her mother’s death, young April Billingsley spends much of THE DARK RED trying to convince the professionals that her own baby’s recent, alleged abduction is not just a delusion in a life marred…
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FEEDBACK **** UK / Spain 2019 Dir: Pedro C Alonso. 97 mins At the start of this intense, timely London-set thriller, station boss Anthony Head dismisses radio host Eddie Marsan’s long-running late-night talk show “The Grim Reality” as too bleak and contentious for Brexit-era listeners just wanting to be cheered…
THE FURIES **** Australia 2019 Dir: Tony D’Aquino. 82 mins An archetypal heavy breathing, scythe-wielding masked killer in the woods pursues a wounded young woman. A second masked maniac appears from nowhere to disembowel the first. From its very first sequence, writer-director Tony D’Aquino’s dynamic 21st century revisionist slasher movie…
Linus de Paoli’s A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL is a unsettling psychological thriller about a painfully shy graduate student and his increasingly unsettled relationship with a female student. Amanda Plummer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Pulp Fiction) co-stars. The film had its International Premiere at London’s FrightFest 2018 and…
THE SIREN *** USA 2019 Dir: Perry Blackshear 80 mins Tom (Evan Dumouchel), takes some time away from his Christian duties by renting a house next to a lake. The owners warn him in a note to take care by the water as there have been a few drownings. He…