Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022): Bloody Laugh Riot
What number must this be now? Ten? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has certainly made much more than just a name for itself, and it’s clearly aiming to bleed that idea until it’s completely dry (partial pun intended). Beginning way back when in 1974, the iconic ‘Leatherface’ villain has gone through myriad re-writes, reboots and…
Army of the Dead: Ocean’s 11 Meets World War Z
Jack Snyder’s new 2021 Netflix film, Army of the Dead, is a complete joyride from start to finish. Absolutely jam-packed with wit, self-conscious cliches and enough blood and guts to fill an industrial wheat silo with, this is your classic zombie flick with a sweet twist. Blurring together two genres that I tend to never…
Ma: Anti-Bullying PSA
Ma (2019) honestly just made me feel really sad. Less of a spine-chilling horror and more of a slow burn, this film interrogates aspects of loneliness and childhood trauma in ways that make you reflect upon the nasty things you’ve had said to you or even the nasty things you’ve said to others in the…
Midsommar: Should have just gone to IKEA
Planning to watch Midsommar (2019)? The best advice I can give you is to prepare yourself for repetitive doses of extremely loud and spine-chilling moaning, sobbing and filleted bodies. Ari Aster, back just a year later from the revered Hereditary (2018), serves up an incredibly thought-provoking and mind-bending depiction of rural Swedish Pagan ritual and…
Orphan: Not the best ad for adoption services
Jaume Collet-Serra’s horror, Orphan (2009), is an interesting examination of grief, development and the process of moving on – or rather the inability to do just that. The plot is sprinkled with motifs of stunted growth, dysfunction and stagnation. Their child is almost entirely deaf, the parents are trapped in a superficially ‘perfect’ marriage that…
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