DEL PLAYA * U.S.A. 2015 Dir: Shaun Hart. 101 mins This week’s bit of movie advice: never trust a slasher movie that opens with an Oscar Wilde quote. Writer-director Shaun Hart’s DEL PLAYA seems equally influenced by Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN and Gus Van Sant’s ELEPHANT as it initially follows an…
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SUICIDE CLUB *** U.K. 2017 Dir: Maximilian Von Vier 90 mins Due to some very traumatising personal issues, Eliza Banning (Klariza Clayton) has become agoraphobic and locked herself in her flat. She divides her days up by spying on/ stalking the other people in her apartment block by use of…
THE ICE CREAM TRUCK *** U.S.A. 2017 Dir: Megan Freels Johnston. 87 mins There is something of the languid style and understated approach of recent American indie horror in this curious, absorbing feature from writer-director Johnston (the granddaughter of novelist Elmore Leonard). Like IT FOLLOWS, it refreshingly emphasises characterisation and…
#FROMJENNIFER **** U.S.A. 2017 Dir: Frank Merle 85 mins Struggling actress Jennifer Peterson (Danielle Taddei) is cast in a new horror film but when things don’t work out she is back looking for work. Her manager Chad Wolfe (played by CANDYMAN’s Tony Todd) reveals she lost out to someone bigger…
Out now on VOD is Joseph Lavender’s terrifying supernatural thriller GHOST WITCH from Wild Eye Releasing. In the tradition of INSIDIOUS and THE CONJURING, GHOST WITCH tells of a group of investigators that spend the night at the house where one of them was attacked as a child by the spirit of a…