Let Me In first published (in slightly different form) by EyeforFilm in Oct 2010 The year was 2008 and the world of horror was changing. Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In) came out, based on the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Delicate, melancholic, oblique and cool in…
The Brøken first published by Fim4 Film summary: A London radiologist confronts her dark side in Sean Ellis’ psychological horror. Review: Pedro Almodóvar may have come up with the phrase in his breakout 1988 comedy, but really it is horror and thriller movies that have the best track record for treating women on the verge of…
Bone Tomahawk first published in Sight & Sound, March 2016 Review: “Riders comin’ in one way, savages the other,” says Buddy (Sid Haig) to his bushwhacking partner Purvis (David Arquette), describing, in the opening sequence to Bone Tomahawk, the no man’s land that they have entered between civilisation and the stone age, while also setting forth…
Longer version of piece published by Sight & Sound as part of coverage of the Cult programme at the London Film Festival 2015 “This is why frontier life is so difficult. Not because of the Indians or the elements, but because of the idiots. You’re idiots!” Indeed, S. Craig Zahler’s directorial debut is set in the…