First published by Movie Gazette Director Vincenzo Natali has followed his claustrophobic debut Cube with Cypher, another tale of labyrinthine entrapment set in the not so distant future. Only this time, the much bigger budget has allowed Natali to broaden his ambitions, and the result is an impressively expansive vision of dystopia. When Digicorp signs…
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Splice (2009)
Splice first published by Film4 Synopsis: In this updated riff on Frankenstein, directed and co-written by Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Cypher), scientific hubris and tainted love combine to create an unstable and dangerous hybrid. Review: Some couplings just were not meant to be. When Splice begins, young, high-powered biochemists Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) have just…
Haunter (2013)
First published by Grolsch FilmWorks “History doesn’t repeat itself,” declares the sinister Pale Man (Stephen McHattie) in Vincenzo Natali’s Haunter. “It rhymes.” This is certainly true for Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin), an adolescent goth who just wishes she could break free from the stifling quotidian repetitions of her family’s middle-class suburban life. Except that if…