thriller

Review: Nicolas Roeg’s Timeless Classic DON’T LOOK NOW

Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now is a stunningly crafted horror/thriller from 1973. It’s a classic, a wonderfully realised piece of cinema which delivers on a dramatic and an emotional level. This is how you make a horror movie.  Based [...]

July 20, 2019

Review: 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE Is Full Of Surprises

When you see enough movies you get into the rhythm of certain genres and it’s often easy to guess what’s going to happen next. I can honestly say that director Caitlin Koller’s 30 Miles From Nowhere was a total surprise. You think you know [...]

February 24, 2019

Review: HOUNDS OF LOVE Is A Violent Antipodean Thriller

Maybe don’t think Kate Bush though Hounds Of Love is a dark and violent Antipodean thriller that will probably send you Running Up That Hill, Breathing heavily and maybe screaming Babooshka! This pic wasn’t made for The Man With The Child In His [...]

July 27, 2017

New Featurette For M. Night Shyamalan’s SPLIT

Split might be great. I get the feeling it could be M.Night Shyamalan‘s best film since his hugely under-rated The Village in 2004 (jeez, is that really 13 years ago?). Last year’s The Visit was a step towards that type of cinematic [...]

January 16, 2017

New Clip From Thriller THE DARK BELOW

Back in 2015 I was lucky enough to see Douglas Schulze‘s experimental thriller The Dark Below. In my review I said the film ‘is an original and bold film that plays around with narrative conventions and preconceived notions of the [...]

January 7, 2017

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