EXT *** Canada 2019 Dir: Adrian Bobb. 9 mins Visual FX artist / writer / director Adrian Bobb riffs on some of James Cameron’s concepts and obsessions for this hugely ambitious short, set in the year 2354 A.D., three centuries after the “great digital immigration” has resulted in the whole…
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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…
SEA FEVER **** Ireland / UK / USA / Sweden / Belgium 2019 Dir: Neasa Hardiman. 95 mins A subtle, eerie oceanic exercise in containment in the tradition of Carpenter’s THE THING, minus the horrific catharsis of visceral set pieces. Writer-director Neasa Hardiman’s character-driven feature debut has Hermione Corfield as…
SCORCHED EARTH * USA / Canada 2018 Dir: Peter Howitt. 96 mins A cataclysmic environmental disaster known as “Cloudfall” has biblically flooded the planet in the mid-21st century; 50 years on, air and water is precious in a barter economy, while toxins fill the air to the extent that people…