Very spoilery so if you don’t want to know your destiny, stop reading now and flee while you still can… (You can read my 4-star review here.) Vivarium is about the inescapability of the humdrum existence that is suburbia, and particularly about society selling us that dream and the isolation that results (Tom and Gemma… Viva Vivarium! That ending and more… Read More
Hello, “Goodbye Mary”
A teaser trailer has been released for up coming indie psychological horror Goodbye Mary. Described as a psychological drama about power, leadership, friendship and women’s positions within society, the film focuses on a group of women whose friend Mary has died. In the teaser, we see Jane (Zoe Cunningham) transfixed by something unseen in a room… Hello, “Goodbye Mary” Read More
Unseen, The 3.5 stars
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 (New York Film Festival 2017) 4 stars
A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who’s in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results. 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… Thelma (New York Film Festival 2017) 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