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…
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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…
DOUBLE DATE **** UK 2017 Dir: Benjamin Barfoot. 90 mins Writer Danny Morgan, wittily puncturing laddish bravado, also amiably plays the role of ginger virgin Jim in this often-funny British horror comedy. Approaching 30 and freshly dumped by text message, he has a would-be ladies’ man best friend Alex (Michael…
ALIEN PARTY CRASHERS (a.k.a. Canaries) ** UK 2017 Dir: Peter Stray 84 mins Alien abductions have been happening around the world for decades. Teams in America and the UK have been documenting these mysterious disappearances so they can trace them if they ever turn up again. When one of these…