The Call
Before low-budget thrillers took place on video calls (Unfriended: Quarantine is only a matter of time), they had to make do with telephones – Phone Booth, Grand Piano, Locke, Buried […]
Before low-budget thrillers took place on video calls (Unfriended: Quarantine is only a matter of time), they had to make do with telephones – Phone Booth, Grand Piano, Locke, Buried […]
The start of Brian De Palma’s “I’m just going to keep making Psycho” period, Sisters sees journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) investigating the case of a corpse folded into a […]
When is a director not a director? And I don’t mean M. Night Shyamalan; I’m talking about films with misleading director credits, such as Poltergeist secretly being directed by Steven […]
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
Autumn Leaves is a mixture of several other Joan Crawford films: Milly is a typist (Grand Hotel) who marries a man called Burt (Mildred Pierce) in this Robert Aldrich-directed (What Ever […]
Today we look back on Re-Animator to celebrate H. P. Lovecraft’s birthday; a writer whose ideas still echo loudly around the horror genre and certain parts of the Labour Party. Jeffrey […]
Someone’s dummy starts to take over their life in Magic: The Melania Trump Story. Despite appearances, 1978’s Magic is not a haunted doll movie (Annabelle, The Boy, that episode of Buffy) but […]
Already generating Oscar buzz, The Florida Project joins the ranks of great movies based in motels, alongside Psycho, Memento, Bug and Memento. While the motel-oriented Lady in the Water is set inside M. Night […]
This is the Japanese chiller from 2002 as opposed to the Sarah Michelle Gellar remake which I refuse to watch for the same reasons I won’t see the Naomi Watts Ring remake. I’m […]
One movie causing a stir at the London Film Festival is Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, not to be confused with I’m Still Here, even though both films feature Joaquin […]