THE DARK AND THE WICKED *** USA 2020 Dir: Bryan Bertino. 95 mins Filmed on a meager budget on the farm of talented writer-director Bertino, this is a supremely creepy mood piece unfolding, as in THE SHINING, over a period of increasingly blurred days of the week appearing onscreen to…
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‘Thrilling, chilling, and absolutely delightful’ Thrillist ‘Gives us that roller coaster experience…has a beguiling effect that has us constantly wanting to hear the next story… an inspired approach to honouring such magic’ Rogerebert.com ‘A delightful and spooky surprise of a movie’ Nerdist ‘Cabin-fire playfulness proving contagious, a nasty game we…
IT: CHAPTER TWO **** USA / Canada 2019 Dir: Andy Muschietti. 169 mins 27 years after their initial battle with the ancient interstellar evil most commonly known as Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), the close-knit group of friends showcased as adolescents in IT: CHAPTER ONE reunite in Derry in the wake of…
SCARE ME *** USA 2020 Dir: Josh Ruben. 104 mins Here’s a cabin-confined, pandemic-released, novel take on the horror anthology format, performed with gusto. Mostly a two-hander, it has writer-actor-director Josh Ruben as writer-actor-director Fred, an ad agency worker in his late thirties holed up in a remote cabin in…
CREEPSHOW (DEVIL’S ADVOCATES) by Simon Brown CREEPSHOW, the lightest, most purely fun of all Romero movies, doesn’t necessarily warrant a full academic analysis in the way that his lauded contributions to zombie cinema invite or, indeed, his fabulous revisionist Gothic MARTIN. Simon Brown, author of this entry in the Devil’s…