Dark Water
Given the multitude of movies about writers, journalists and even publishers, it’s nice to see a film about a proofreader for a change considering they’re just as impotant. This 2002 […]
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Border
This Swedish fantasy follows a customs officer (Eva Melander) whose Neanderthalic features make her an expert at sniffing out contraband but equally a social outcast, hence the title. Imagine Bright […]
Frankenhooker
The oldest sci-fi novel meets the oldest profession in this 1990 horror/comedy about amateur scientist Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) rebuilding his dead girlfriend (Patty Mullen) after she is killed in […]
Jennifer’s Body
Megan Fox plays a transformer of sorts in Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s feminist horror/comedy, whose high school succubus plot resembles a combination of the novels My Best Friend’s Exorcism and We Sold Our Souls by […]
Crucible of the Vampire
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if one spends enough time at the Prince Charles Cinema, one eventually sees Tommy Wiseau. Even so, I didn’t expect to, since I […]
The Witches
A boy and his grandma (Jasen Fisher and Mai Zetterling) go on holiday together only to find themselves sharing a hotel with the conference from hell – a gathering of […]
Bird Box
Did you know there’s a Mayan prophecy that predicts the world will end in 2019 after becoming overrun with high-concept post-apocalyptic movies? First there was After Earth: if it senses your […]
Mandy
Red (Nicolas Cage) sees red in this red-filtered revenge horror that opens with King Crimson’s Starless from the album Red. I wish I could tell you there was more than […]
The Possession
Where most possession movies are based around Christianity, 2012’s The Possession features a Jewish demon – and since we call the Christian ones Jesus Creepers, it seems only fair that […]
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Krampus meets The Thing in this 2010 Finnish holiday horror that I would have called Santa’s Grotty. From the director of Big Game, Rare Exports starts in much the same way: a […]
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