MARY REILLY *** USA / UK 1996 Dir: Stephen Frears. 108 mins Adapted by Christopher Hampton from Valerie Martin’s novel, this tail-end entry in Hollywood’s early 90’s Gothic horror cycle (spun off from Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA) was a costly failure at the time and misleadingly sold as a full-blown…
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There’s few horror movies as entertaining as those featuring the battle between survivors among the backdrop of the living dead, and Dead Life: Wormwood’s End delivers all the action and gory goodness you’ve come to expect in that sub-genre in this latest special edition from SRS! Synopsis: Four months…
LADY IN THE SHOWER **** Canada 2018 Dir: Chris Borgo. 6 mins Writer-director Chris Borgo (THE HAG: BLOODLINE, THE NANABIJOU TAPES) – who also produced, shot and edited – cannily plays on our (over) familiarity with modern horror tropes in this dialogue-free, confident mini-shocker. Laura Woodbeck is part of a…
CAUGHT *** UK 2018 Dir: Jamie Patterson. 86 mins A beguiling riff on home invasion horror from the talented director of FRACTURED (2016). Set around the Sussex moors circa 1972, it has middle class journalist couple Aaron Davis and Mickey Sumner striving to revive their flagging careers by getting a…
LAKE ARTIFACT ** USA 2019 Dir: Bruce Wemple. 96 mins “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time” Leo Tolstoy. Unfortunately, both were missing from this film. Lake Artifact directed by Bruce Wemple (Altered Hours) takes us into a strange hybrid of sci-fi/slasher horror that never really manages to…