I’m always surprised there aren’t more films set in the Lake District, particularly horror – that landscape of meres, tarns and rolling hills leading to grey jutting crags and high, lonely waterfalls can turn from benign to threatening in an instant. Factor in the area’s notoriously ropy mobile phone signal and the many isolated grey… Unseen, The Read More
Thelma 4 stars
Out hunting with his little blonde daughter in the forest, there’s a deer in his sights, and his gun is at the ready. But instead bearded Trond, standing behind the little girl, briefly but deliberately turns away from the deer and points the gun directly at the back of her head. What is he? And… Thelma Read More
Mother Of All Trailers Arrives And I’m More Confused Than Ever
Letting our offspring watch Peppa Pig on an iPad, giving birth to world tyrants, and breastfeeding in public. Just three of the crimes we mothers cop a load of shit for, so I’m really hoping that upcoming psychological horror film mother! doesn’t cast us in an even worse light. Anyway, mum-rant over (for now! Hahaha). We’ve already… Mother Of All Trailers Arrives And I’m More Confused Than Ever Read More
The Babadook 4.5 stars
As six year old Samuel’s doctor says, “all children see monsters”. Or hear them, under the bed and on the stairs. It’s a response to something they can’t control, and a way of making sense of big events in their lives. Most aren’t stalked through the darkness by a terrifying black hatted figure who wants… The Babadook Read More