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When The Screaming Starts 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

1st September 2021 by Sarah Leave a Comment

A would-be serial killer decides to start a Manson-like murder cult with his girlfriend. Claire, Lady Macbeth to Aidan Mendle’s David Brent, is up front about what she can offer. “If you kill someone we can have sex,” she tells her boyfriend and murderer-in-training. The film-within-a-film being made in horror mockumentary When The Screaming Starts… When The Screaming Starts Read More

Filed Under: Film Festivals, Film Reviews, FrightFest Tagged With: britain, cult, mockumentary, murder, serial killers, the family

Writer-director Conor Boru on his murder mockumentary When The Screaming Starts

19th August 2021 by Sarah Leave a Comment

“Imagine Louis Theroux meets the Manson Family…” Conor Boru With so much blood it’s even gushier than a BAFTA ceremony full of luvvies, serial killer mockumentary When The Screaming Starts has a particularly British sensibility to it, what with its David Brent-like main character, Aidan, who wants to become a mass murderer, the campervan-driving documentary… Writer-director Conor Boru on his murder mockumentary When The Screaming Starts Read More

Filed Under: Featured Bottom 3, FrightFest, Interviews Tagged With: AAA, british film, comedy, conor boru, frightfest, horror, mockumentary, serial killers, when the screaming starts

Teaser trailer: Comedy horror mockumentary When The Screaming Starts

19th August 2021 by Sarah Leave a Comment

A wannabe serial killer, a warped filmmaker, and a murderous cult on a blood-soaked rampage. When The Screaming Starts is a darkly comic tale of how far we will go in order to achieve our ambitions. *** My review is now live — plus read my interview with director and co-writer, Conor Boru *** I’ve seen the… Teaser trailer: Comedy horror mockumentary When The Screaming Starts Read More

Filed Under: Film Festivals, FrightFest, Trailers Tagged With: AAA, comedy, cult, frightfest, horror, mockumentary, serial killer, when the screaming starts

Mock-doc Marathon trailer hoping to raise some snickers

23rd June 2021 by Sarah

Years ago I used to take part in Newcastle’s Great North Run, that annual 13-mile “fun run” where you collapse over the finish line wondering how on earth anybody could turn round and jog all the way back, for the full distance. My highlight was beating an ex-Marine from my gym (well, he told me… Mock-doc Marathon trailer hoping to raise some snickers Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: AAA, marathon, mockumentary, running

What We Do In The Shadows 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

20th April 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Immortality can’t all be glamorous cloak-swishing nights out or chases pursued by 15th century pitchfork-waving villagers. At some point someone has to sort out the recycling and wash up the blood-spattered plates. Mockumentaries rarely get it completely right. Balancing out the laughs with situations that could actually be real, and which also propel the story forward,… What We Do In The Shadows Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: comedy, Deacon, horror, jemaine clement, masquerade ball, mock documentary, mockumentary, new zealand films, Petyr, secret society, Taika Waititi, te aro, undead, unholy masquerade, vampire hunter, vampires, Viago, Vladislav, wellington, what we do in the shadows

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Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, John Wick lover and Gerard Butler apologist. Still waiting for Mike Banning vs John Wick: Requiem

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Reviews

One True Loves 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

John Wick: Chapter 4 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Visualization (short film) Short Film 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Follow The Dead 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Plane 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

See How They Run 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Maneater 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

The Reef: Stalked 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Persuasion 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

GATLOPP: Hell Of A Game 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Jurassic World: Dominion 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Top Gun: Maverick 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Senior Year 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Operation Mincemeat 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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