A Blind Bargain had its world première at FrightFest, 1.25pm Mon 25 Aug With sporadically released features like That Little Monster (1994) and The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012) – and a slew of short films – to his name, Paul Bunnell has made a specialty of resurrecting past periods and forgotten forms, in…
Eight Eyes first published by SciFiNow, 4 August 2023 Eight Eyes starts as it intends to finish: with an unsettling enigma. The camera tilts down through the darkness of night to a big fire, onto which some clothing is placed, and in which a charred human head is ablaze. A mask made of wax…
Enys Men first published by VODzilla.co, 8 May 2023 1973 represents a key moment in the annals of British genre cinema. For it is the year that arguably these Isles’ two all-time greatest horror titles – Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man – were released, and even, extraordinarily, double billed….
Death Proof first published by EyeforFilm, 5 September 2007 Comprising a double-feature of Quentin Tarantino‘s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez‘s Planet Terror (as well as mock-up trailers during the intermission), Grindhouse was originally conceived as a grittily nostalgic revival of the whole ‘grindhouse’ experience – yet another groovy time-warp to add to the countless Noughties…
X first published by Sight and Sound online Ti West‘s X opens with a visual trick to confound the viewer’s sense of time. A corpse-strewn farmhouse is shown in what appears to be outmoded Academy ratio, until the camera’s forward movement reveals that the vertical extremities of this squared image are in fact the sides…
Review first published by Little White Lies “We don’t do new — we renovate!” So declares Mayor Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), a salt-of-the-earth politician in New Jersey 1978, as he shows Sheik Abdullah (Michael Peña) around the Atlantic City building that he hopes to turn into a casino. Carmine’s big dream depends on Abdullah’s investment, but…