Its title is the Spanish word for ‘friend’, and it opens with a Biblical quote on friendship: “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity” (Proverbs 17:17). Accordingly, Óscar Martín’s feature debut Amigo, which he co-wrote with his stars David Pareja and Javier Botet, is indeed a…
Crabs! has its world première at FrightFest 2021; review first published by VODzilla.co While there are many hundreds of films with exclamation marks in their titles, the key reference point for the emphatic punctuation at the end of writer/director Pierce Berolzheimer’s Crabs! is surely Gordon Douglas’s Them! (1954). After all, much as Gordon Douglas’ myrmecophobic…