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…
Azrael: Angel of Death first published by SciFiNow, for its UK première at FrightFest, 25 August, 2024 “Many years after the Rapture…” reads the text, in bright red, that opens Azrael: Angel of Death. It is a way, right from the outset of marking E.L. Katz’s feature, written by Simon Barrett, as being post-apocalyptic in…
28 Weeks Later first published by EyeforFilm, 8 May 2007 Back in the Fifties and Sixties, with the British Empire crumbling, the Cold War in full swing and nuclear devastation only a button away, this sceptred isle seemed to be a cinematic epicentre for world-shaking horror. Time and again in the Quatermass series, as well…
From Iron Lady to Tank Girl Tank Girl was a product of, and reaction to, the Thatcher years. In 1988, when Rebecca Buck (aka Tank Girl) first appeared in the British comics magazine Deadline, Margaret Thatcher had already been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for nine long years, presiding over: the jingoistic militarism of…
Over the course of the franchise that bears his name, ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky has been on something of a journey: from a cop who, after a gang murders his wife and child, speeds down a path of vengeance, breaking bad as the society around him breaks down, to a post-apocalyptic ‘warrior of the wasteland’ surviving…
The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine had its world première at Make Believe Seattle 2024 The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine offers a scenario that is post-apocalyptic twice over. For it opens, five years after an alien invasion known only as The Calamity, when one of the only remaining survivors, Wozzek (Graham Skipper,…
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…
Some short films are designed to stand on their own, as a simple set-up and punchline delivered with an economy that maximises their impact. Others are more like teasers for a bigger project to be pursued when the budget eventually falls into place. Like her earlier short Skater Zombies (2022), writer/director Eileen Yaghoobian’s Skater Zombies:…
Herd had its world première on Sat 26 Aug at FrightFest, UK home entertainment release (digital/DVD) follows on 23rd October 2023 (High Fliers) At the beginning of Herd, Jamie Miller (Ellen Adair) and her wife Alex Kanai (Mitzi Akaha) have become divided. After the stillbirth of their daughter, a chill has entered their relationship, and while they…
Polaris screened at the Imagine Film Festival 2022 “Frozen world, year 2144,” reads text that opens Kirsten Carthew’s Polaris. “Few survived the freezing. A child raised by a bear brings hope from the stars.” Apart from another brief caption (“10 years earlier”) that appears shortly afterwards leading into a flashback told, storybook-style, in hand-drawn pictures,…
Prisoners of the Ghostland first published by VODzilla.co Prisoners of the Ghostland, the first English-language film from prolific genre anarchist Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Tag), begins with balls. More precisely, with a slow zoom into a coin-operated machine full of brightly coloured gum balls, and a smiling Japanese boy in front of it,…