It Feeds has its world première at Panic Fest, 28 Mar 2025, and is on UK digital platforms from 12 May via Signature Entertainment “The world believes in science, not spirit,” Cynthia Winstone (Ashley Greene) tells her 17-year-old daughter Jordan (Ellie O’Brien), some way into Chad Archibald’s It Feeds. Very aware of this principle herself,…
In horror, as in Freudian psychoanalysis, it is usually a young child who witnesses – and misunderstands – a primal scene (typically, sex between parents), engendering the perversion of that child’s psychosexual development. The Free Fall certainly opens with a primal scene, as Sara Wright (Andrea Londo) enters the upstairs bedroom of her parents, only…
Anderson Falls (aka Darkness Falls) first published by SciFiNow Strap: Julien Seri’s serial-killer thriller pits one father against another in a cat-and-mouse chase through toxic masculinity’s legacy. ‘Anderson Falls’ is the name of a wide cascade to be found in Bartholomew County, Indiana – but that is a long way from the urban LA setting…
Devil’s Gate first published by SciFiNow Strange, immediately after hearing the news of Tobe Hooper’s death, to begin the day at FrightFest with a film whose opening pays full and glorious homage to Hooper’s most famous and influential film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). For the prologue to writer/director Clay Staub’s feature debut Devil’s Gate…
Frozen first published by Sight & Sound, October 2010 Review: “Will do for skiing what Jaws did for swimming,” screams the pull quote (from Brad Miska’s review for Bloody-Disgusting.com) placed at the very centre of the US poster campaign for Adam Green’s Frozen. It is an association in fact overtly forged by Green’s film, which after…
Review first published by Sight & Sound, July 2014 Synopsis: Greenville, Kansas. Sad, single, recently unemployed 29-year-old Edward still lives with his conservative Christian parents, and with a pill addiction from childhood. He has largely given up on both his guitar and his childhood dream of running away with a band. His only refuge from…