Tag Archives: Horror

Review in Brief: Leatherface (2017)

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Sam S-P

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 Asylum horror and hillbilly horror are both thoroughly outdated scare sub-genres, and LEATHERFACE tries a bit of both, approaching neither with any more subtlety than power … Continue reading →

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Review: The Open House (2018)

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Sam S-P

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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Review in Brief: The Love Witch (2017)

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Sam S-P

I can almost guarantee somewhere down the line THE LOVE WITCH is going to be studied. It’s going to be that really weird one you watch on your film course in order to write an equally weird essay neither you … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: The Mummy (2017)

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Sam S-P

Well, it’s not the worst film of 2017. The latest take on Universal’s THE MUMMY has Tom Cruise running, jumping, shooting, swimming with all his usual aplomb, the problem is there is nothing likeable, even redeemable about his character Nick … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Gerald’s Game (2017)

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Sam S-P

There’s such fine, detailed character work here and such a limited pool of performers and locations that you can imagine GERALD’S GAME working as well on stage as it does on film. Sooner or later, one of the usual Stephen … Continue reading →

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Review: It (2017)

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Sam S-P

Nobody does a slow build like Stephen King. In both THE STAND and IT, he’s still introducing new characters and concepts with 250 pages to go and he can spend chapter after chapter establishing history, geography, mood and layer -upon-layer … Continue reading →

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Review: Get Out (2017)

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Sam S-P

You might have an idea of the general direction GET OUT is heading in, but few will guess how far down this deep and murky thematic rabbit hole writer-director Jordan Peele will take us. This is a horror film for … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Prevenge (2016/17)

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Sam S-P

We’ve had plenty of schizophrenic serial killer movies, but PREVENGE must be the first where the voice telling the perpetrator to kill is her unborn child. Our antihero is utterly miserable in her pregnancy, so turns to killing and maiming, … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Sam S-P

There are surprisingly few horror movies set in morgues. Plenty with morgue scenes, but a scarcity that really make the most of that cold dread atmosphere for an extended duration. What they do with a few key simple sounds and … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: A Cure for Wellness (2016/17)

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Sam S-P

A CURE FOR WELLNESS is clean and cold, calculated and stylish horror. It’s about time we had a psychological scarer about that oft-heard euphemism “Going to Switzerland”. I think it’s aiming to be a scathing critique of non-stop modern work … Continue reading →

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