Bunny Rabbit screened virtually at Chattanooga Film Festival from 23 June 2026; you can watch it on www.bunnyrabbit.movie and support the filmmakers directly. Bunny Rabbit (fka Bunny) opens – quietly – with apocalypse. Intradiegetic footage, with a time code that reads 4th January 2030, shows fire fighters and police rushing to their parked vehicles and fleeing as…
Párvulos had its US première on 22nd September at Fantastic Fest 2024 In Spanish, a párvulo is a toddler, and the plural párvulos can be used to denote a kindergarten – which is to say that Isaac Ezban’s latest feature, subtitled Hijos del Apocalipsis (‘sons of the Apocalypse’), is clearly going to focus on younger…
Year 10 had its world première in the First Blood strand at FrightFest 2024, 24 August “It was all over in a day. At first the living ate the dead. By Year 10, the living ate the living.” These three sentences of text that open Benjamin Goodger’s feature debut are as much explicit context as…
The Road first published by EyeforFilm, 17 Oct 2009 About a third of the way through Cormac McCarthy‘s 2006 novel The Road, the two main characters cautiously watch a passing caravan, with colourfully decorated warriors in the front, then harnessed slaves pulling carts piled with the material spoils of war, then the women, and lastly…
Milk Teeth (Milchzähne) has its UK première at the Glasgow Film Festival 2024 “She was just standing in our garden, as if by magic,” greying Edith (the aptly named Susanne Wolff) tells her young adult daughter Skalde (Mathilde Bundschuh) of the strange little girl Meisis (Viola Hinz) who has turned up unannounced at the beginning…
The Colony first published by VODzilla.co Released the same year as Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, The Colony similarly imagines a future ice age that has wiped out most of life on earth, leaving several frosty outcrops of survival to fight among themselves over dwindling scraps and encroaching disease. The vehicle of Jeff Renfroe’s allegory, however, is…
“Maria tells me you write,” says Hans (Eric Godon), some way into Chino Moya’s feature debut Undergods. “What about?” “Possible worlds,” replies Johann (Tadhg Murphy) “I don’t think you’ll get it. Maria says you don’t read much.” What neither of these two men – nor indeed Hans’ daughter Maria (Tanya Reynolds) – quite realises is…
Set in the apocalyptic aftermath of World War Three, in a world where hybrid porcine mutants (known as ‘Muzzles’) literally butcher humans for food, Valeri Milev’s Bullets of Justice is an amped-up Eighties-style actioner – so absurdly hyperbolic, indeed, that it is more akin to parody Kung Fury (2015) than to the real deal. Rob…
Mountain Fever (aka Fever) first published by SciFiNow The end of the world is a place that cinema has visited many times, but Mountain Fever brings a grim intimacy to these familiar motifs, while reducing all of humanity to both a tiny dramatis personae and a stripped-down range of hopes and fears. The engine of change…
First published by Little White Lies “She was scared, ok – she was scared of blast burn and radiation poisoning, and she was dying,” Hunter (J.L. Thomason) reassures Jonathan (Ross Britz) after the latter has just been bitten on the hand by a crazed woman who burst into their bunker. “She’s a refugee of this…
Turbo Kid first published by TheHorrorShow At the centre of François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s improbable New Zealand-Canadian co-production Turbo Kid is a toy: a vintage 3D optical View-Master showing images of a T-Rex. “They got killed out by this big explosion,” explains the Kid (Munro Chambers) to his chirpy new friend Apple (Laurence Leboeuf). “Kind…