Tummy Monster has its world première at the Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Tattoos are forever – permanent reminders of history and identity. They may grow, date and fade with the owner, gradually losing their initial lustre and showing their age, but they endure, either as proud badges of lost youth, or embarrassing souvenirs of long…
Rain, Rain, Go Away had its world première on Sat 26th Aug at FrightFest Rain, Rain, Go Away opens with a penetrative act: black ink being injected into flesh in close-up. “First time?”, the tattoo artist (Gaz Hayden) asks Clari (Carolina Lopes), as she visibly winces through the pain. “Bit of a late bloomer, then?” …
Where The Skin Lies first published by SciFiNow Michaël Boucherie is a former dancer, a choreographer, and an award-winning maker of short films, but Where the Skin Lies is the first feature that he has directed and co-written. On the strength of it, however, it won’t be the last. With its focus on a small…
Cross The Line (No matarás)has its UK première at Grimmfest Easter Edition 2022 At the beginning of Cross The Line, directed by David Victori (The Pact, 2018), we see (and hear, breathing heavily) an old, invalid man (Miquel Bordoy) attached to a heart monitor and lying in a hospital bed set up in his living…
Irezumi first published by Film4 Summary: In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumura, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. Review: Two years after their immaculately perverse melodrama Manji (1964), Yasuzo Masumura (Red Angel, Blind Beast) and Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba, The Naked Island) were drawn to work together again on another lurid tale of…
Perfect Skin first published by SciFiNow Anyone who has seen Rob Zombie’s 31 (2016) will know that the very best thing about it was actor Richard Brake. As ‘Doom-Head’, an incarnation of violent, painful death, Brake’s intense, haunted eyes, gaunt, cavernous cheeks and drawn, craggy skin were an integral part of his authenticity as a performer….