Super Z had its UK première at FrightFest 2022 If the zombies in Super Z are, as its very title suggests, not quite like the others, then that just places Julien de Volte and Arnaud Tabarly’s feature in a long tradition of zombies who have never stopped changing and evolving. Their ‘classic’ form as slow-shuffling,…
Land of the Dead first published by EyeforFilm, 30 Sept 2005 George A. Romero established himself as the first and greatest auteur of the undead with what has since become affectionately known as his ‘Holy Trinity’, a trilogy of films that laid down both the law and the lore for zombie horror. Mixing his liberal…
12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?) first published by Film4 Summary: In Corneliu Porumboiu’s feature debut, the history of the Romanian revolution is re-examined as farce. Review: 12:08 PM, 22 Dec, 1989. After a week of public unrest and bloody street battles, Romania’s communist president Nicolae Ceausescu was forced to flee the…
White God (Fehér isten) first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “Everything terrible is something that needs our love,” runs the text (cited from Rilke) with which White God (Fehér isten) opens – and then a sequence from near the film’s chronological end arrests the viewer with the sort of ‘terrible’ scenario that is coming: a girl cycles through Budapest’s…