CHILDREN OF SIN ** USA 2022 Dir: Christopher Wesley Moore. 95 mins Having been part of panel discussions at Conventions and chatting with people I know I have long ago said that Horror film plots are becoming crime films. Is this wrong to do after all Science fiction has done…
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If you don’t leave Abraham House a different person, you won’t be leaving at all. Christopher Moore’s creepy, atmospheric spookfest CHILDREN OF SIN premieres on Amazon Prime April 22. After being sent to a sinister religious retreat by their stepfather, two siblings fight to escape in order to save their…
TRIGGERED **** South Africa 2020 Dir: Alastair Orr. 90 mins South African filmmaker Alastair Orr, whose earlier genre films – notably FROM A HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET (2016) – never quite hung together, nails it with TRIGGERED, a sharp-witted, intense riff on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME retooled with an ensemble…
TRIGGERED *** USA 2018 Dir: Chris Moore. 114 mins Writer-director Chris Moore’s last film was the excellent BLESSED ARE THE CHILDREN (2016), a smart modern slasher wittily balancing genre-savvy references with unusually strong characterisations. His follow-up is another slasher movie with rare attention to complex teenage characters – this time…