5.0 Movie Review: The Feast David Watson August 24, 2022 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews In the Welsh mountains, the family of wealthy local politician and businessman Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones) gather for a lavish dinner party, hoping to broker a mining deal between the neighbouring farm and...
5.0 Movie Review: The Northman David Watson May 26, 2022 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews GOD BLESS COCAINE! For what else can be responsible for the vision, the hubris, the madness, the folly, that inspired mainstream film executives to think it was a great idea to give folk horror genius...
4.0 Movie Review: Ambulance David Watson March 31, 2022 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Louder than a brass band being kicked down a flight of steps and through a glass door and edited to within a flicker of biting your tongue off epileptic seizure, Ambulance is indeed a tale told by an...
The True Evil Of Christmas – Love Actually David Watson December 8, 2021 Editor's Choice, Features Can a film be evil? I'm not talking about cursed films. We've all heard tales of cursed films, usually films of a supernatural bent, The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, films where cast and crew members died...
3.0 Movie Review: Prisoners Of The Ghostland David Watson September 16, 2021 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future, the gaudy, neon-splashed frontier city of Samurai Town is the closest thing to civilisation, ruled over with an iron fist by the sleazy, despotic Governor...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Sadness David Watson August 30, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews *SPOILER WARNING – The Sadness features scenes of extreme sexual violence which will shock and offend some viewers* After a year of lockdowns battling a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Post Mortem David Watson August 30, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Having survived being blown up and a near death experience on the battlefield in the dying days of the Great War, Tomás (Viktor Klem) travels the frozen Hungarian countryside as part of a travelling fair,...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Antidote David Watson August 30, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Rushed to hospital with appendicitis, Sharyn (Ashlynn Yennie) wakes up after surgery not in a hospital but chained to a bed in a dank underground medical facility presided over by the sinister Dr Hellenbach...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: As In Heaven, So On Earth David Watson August 29, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 1275. A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist and his secret order use her for their strange experiments, repeatedly raping her and stealing the offspring she bears. But a...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Dawn Breaks Behind The Eyes David Watson August 28, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Woozy. Dreamlike. Hallucinatory. Psychedelic. Phantasmagoria. Fever dream. These are all words you can expect to find peppering reviews of Kevin Kopacka’s lush, ravishing Dawn Breaks Behind The Eyes...
The Best Foreign Horror Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen David Watson October 20, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Halloween So, it’s Halloween again (well, nearly). But you don’t just wanna watch Halloween again - or even give the latest Michael Myers outing a rewatch. The problem is horror is such an eco-friendly...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: AV – The Hunt David Watson August 31, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews A young couple meet for a passionate tryst in a dingy shagpad in a small rural town , a few stolen moments, but both are edgy, flinching at every random sound. When she hits the shower, there’s a...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: A Ghost Waits David Watson August 30, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Already something of a hit at FrightFest Glasgow, a lonely oddjob man meets a quite literally kindred spirit in A Ghost Waits, a sweet, whimsically affecting horror rom-com from director Adam Stovall. When...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Dark Place David Watson August 30, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Australia! The land down under. Where the native floral and fauna wants to kill you, eat you and root you, likely in that order. Where just going outdoors in the daytime gives you cancer and getting to the...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: The Horror Crowd David Watson August 29, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews ***SPOILER! Please remember as you read this that I'm fundamentally a bitter, mean-spirited turnip who's secretly devastated he'll never know love...*** I have a good friend who perplexes...
1.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Playhouse David Watson August 29, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews After years of terrifying audiences, enfant terrible, horror playwright Jack Travis (William Holstead) buys a haunted Scottish castle and moves in with his pouty emo teenage daughter Bee (Grace...
2.0 DVD Review: Daniel Isn’t Real David Watson February 24, 2020 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice Traumatised by the aftermath of a mass shooting and troubled by the break-up of his parents' marriage, shy child Luke is befriended by the cooler, more confident Daniel and soon the two boys are spending all...
5.0 Movie Review: Parasite David Watson February 4, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews So poor they live in a subterranean hovel that regularly floods or fills with toxic fumes courtesy of the local exterminators, the Kim family live desperate lives, working low-paid, menial jobs to try and get...
5.0 Movie Review: The Nightingale David Watson November 25, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Gang raped and left for dead, her husband and baby murdered, when the local authorities refuse to take action against the gang of soldiers responsible, Irish convict Claire (Aisling Franciosi) swears...
4.0 Movie Review: Judy & Punch David Watson November 22, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews In the medieval town of Seaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Professor Punch (Damon Herriman) and his wife Judy (Mia Wasikowska) are a sensation, their rowdy theatre show playing to packed audiences who...
2.0 Movie Review: Last Christmas David Watson November 15, 2019 Movie Reviews Cute-as-a-button flibbertigibbet Kate (Emilia Clarke), a talented singer with West End dreams who just can’t seem to catch a break, is stuck in something of a rut. Adrift in London, she’s...