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Review: Cargo (2017/18)
CARGO is not to be confused with Cargo, the not particularly good Swiss ALIEN/MATRIX mashup from 2009. But I don’t think many people saw that one, so the mixup is unlikely. Netflix’s Cargo is, to put it simply, an Australian … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Ben Howling, Cargo, Drama, Horror, Martin Freeman, Sci-fi, Susie Porter, The Matrix, Yolanda Ramke, Zombie Movie
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80s Review: The Shining (1980)
Most people’s first thought of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING will be one of three images: the ghost girls, the woman in the bath and Jack Nicholson axing his way through the bathroom door. Few western horrors, except for perhaps THE … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, Danny Lloyd, Garrett Brown, Horror, Jack Nicholson, Rocky II, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Exorcist, The Shining
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Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Well, it’s certainly a lot more fun than the last one. JURASSIC PARK is my favourite childhood film and remains very close to the top of my list today. The sequels have never been up to much, and each time … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien: Covenant, B-movie, Blockbuster, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Danielle Pineda, Horror, JA Bayona, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Michael Crichton, Ralph Spall, Sci-fi, Steven Spielberg, Ted Levine
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Review in Brief: It Comes at Night (2017)
This would make one hell of a double-feature with THE SURVIVALIST. Bleak, slow-burning and intense both, but IT COMES AT NIGHT is far more tricksy and ambiguous a thing. Nightmares, visions, hallucinations – whatever they’re supposed to be – bleed … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Jigsaw (2017)
While JIGSAW isn’t a bad movie, not even particularly low down in the wider SAW franchise (for the record it goes I, III, VI then Jigsaw) but it’s hard to love. Expect pleasing references to the earlier movies, new traps … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror, Jigsaw, Predestination, Saw, The Spierig Brothers, Tobin Bell, Tom and Jerry
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Review in Brief: The Vault (2017)
THE VAULT isn’t a very good…anything. Marketed as a horror-thriller (haunted bank vaults: why isn’t that a genre go-to?) but it just doesn’t work because it’s not scary and it’s not exciting. I think they might have been going for … Continue reading
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Tagged Francesca Eastwood, Horror, James Franco, Taryn Manning, The Vault, Thriller
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Review in Brief: Leatherface (2017)
Well, I’ve certainly seen worse TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE reboots. The last one, for instance. Asylum horror and hillbilly horror are both thoroughly outdated scare sub-genres, and LEATHERFACE tries a bit of both, approaching neither with any more subtlety than power … Continue reading
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Tagged Dimo Alexiev, Horror, Jim Siedow, Leatherface, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Review: The Open House (2018)
My first new movie of 2018 is a Netflix Original, mostly because between moving house and being ill, I haven’t managed to get to the cinema to see any Oscar Bait in January. OPEN HOUSE has a lot we’ve seen … Continue reading
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Tagged Don't Breathe, Dylan Minnette, Horror, Hush, Netflix, Piercey Dalton, The Gift, The Open House, Thriller
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