UPGRADE **** USA 2018 Dir: Leigh Whannell. 100 mins Leigh Whannell’s second film as director (following the superior INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3) is a hard-edged slice of technophobic sci-fi in which budgetary restrictions work in the film’s favour and obvious thematic parallels to ROBOCOP and Cronenbergian body horror do not distract…
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Genre distributor Terror Films has acquired the worldwide digital rights to Dave Palamaro’s critically acclaimed “whodunnit” horror flick, MURDER MADE EASY (read our review HERE). Terror Films has already begun the digital release with the film currently available on iTunes and Google Play The expansion (beginning on 27th September) onto…
Garnering critical acclaim on its theatrical release, one of Britain’s greatest actors of today Toby Jones ‘glows’ (The Guardian) as the lead in KALEIDOSCOPE, a bleak, nightmarish psychological thriller written and directed by brother Rupert Jones in his feature film debut. This intense thriller ‘adds a decidedly 21st century bent…
THE FURIES **** Australia 2019 Dir: Tony D’Aquino. 82 mins An archetypal heavy breathing, scythe-wielding masked killer in the woods pursues a wounded young woman. A second masked maniac appears from nowhere to disembowel the first. From its very first sequence, writer-director Tony D’Aquino’s dynamic 21st century revisionist slasher movie…
LEVEL 16 *** Canada 2018 Dir: Danishka Esterhazy. 102 mins Writer-director Danishka Esterhazy is destined for some level of cultdom due to her BANANA SPLITS horror movie, but this earlier credit is an understated, chilly sci-fi spin on familiar genre themes: class division and the extremities of the 21st century…