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Review in Brief: Apostle (2018)
Gareth Evans’s APOSTLE has three things going for it: another killer propulsive soundtrack from Aria Prayogi and Fajar Yuskemal (THE RAID), the director’s usual grisly visual panache, and Michael Sheen. The rest of it is a misstep for the previously … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Apostle, Aria Prayogi, Dan Stevens, Fajar Yuskemal, Gareth Evans, Horror, The Raid, The Wicker Man
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Review in Brief: A Cure for Wellness (2016/17)
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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Tagged A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinski, Gothic Horror, Horror, Psychological Horror, The Wicker Man, Thriller
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Review: The Hallow (2015)
Folkloric horror is perhaps the most fascinating and rich sub-category of film’s best-trodden and most mutable genre. Every culture on Earth has their own legends, fables, superstitions and things that go bump in the night ingrained, and film has mined … Continue reading
Film Confessional #3: The Wicker Man (2006)
I have a confession to make…I like THE WICKER MAN remake. It’s not the icon of pagan horror the original British film was, but I still found it a fairly diverting and eerie way to spend 100 minutes. The one question … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged Anthony Shaffer, Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Ellen Burstyn, Film, Horror, Movies, Neil LaBute, Nicolas Cage, Remake, Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man
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“The hour grows late…” (RIP Sir Christopher Lee)
Well today has been a sad one for film fans. Mere hours after news broke that the portrayer of Fagin Ron Moody had died at the age of 91, it was announced that Christopher Lee had also passed away at … Continue reading →