WRITER’S CRAMP (a.k.a. Breakdowns) * USA 2015 Dir: Darva Campbell. 105 mins With regular, pace-killing slow fade transitions where you would normally find commercials and lines of dialogue delivered with an apparent pause for canned laughter, this drawing room murder-mystery farce plays out like a particularly duff local theatre company…
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LAKE MUNGO ***** Australia 2008 Dir: Joel Anderson. 87 mins “I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened – it just hasn’t reached me yet”. The tragic teenage girl – seen only via stills and home video footage of her…
One of the greatest films ever made, horror or otherwise’ Rob Savage ‘A classic supernatural enigma, once seen never forgotten’ Projected Figures ‘It’s devastating, it’s terrifying, and I think every single person with a pulse should watch it at least once and then immediately call their loved ones’ Collider ‘Read between…
LAKE OF DEATH *** Norway 2019 Dir: Nini Bull Robsahm. 94 mins Based on the 1958 movie LAKE OF THE DEAD this 21st century adaptation introduces us to Lillian (Iben Akerlie) and a group of her friends as they go back to her families cabin by the lake where her…
A NIGHT OF HORROR: NIGHTMARE RADIO **** Argentina/New Zealand/UK 2019 Dir: Luciano & Nicholas Onetti. 124 mins This anthology incorporates the grand total of 8… well, 9 short movies if you count the wraparound into a very entertaining and fast paced 1 hour and forty-five minutes. The wraparound story directed…