Old Man opens with a large painted image, as if from an illustrated children’s book. After showing a shadowy figure walking a forest path, the camera slowly tilts to take in, further up the mountain, a cottage with a smoking chimney. That cottage will turn out to be the film’s key location, its lived-in interior…
One of the most creepily charming horror films of the last decade. Somebody pick this title up now! Review originally published as part of Film4 FrightFest 2012 coverage for Little White Lies. “If we don’t make it out of here,” says Mark (Marc Senter) in the prologue to A Night of Nightmares, talking straight to his own video camera,…