Author David Watson

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 sofa...

Arguably one of the best film’s at this year’s FrightFest, it’s Closing Night film Abner Pastoll’s A Good Woman Is Hard To Find feels even more ferocious now that it’s being released just in time...

In the documentary accompanying the film as part of the extra content on the 3 From Hell Blu-Ray, a shaven-headed Bill Moseley, eyes twinkling with mischief, and a visibly ailing Sid Haig reminisce about...

So, it’s Halloween again (well, nearly). But you don’t just wanna watch Halloween again - or even the latest Michael Myers outing a rewatch. The problem is horror is such an eco-friendly genre, the same...

An orphan who’s bounced from foster home to foster home while growing up, Grace’s (Samara Weaving) dreams of being part of a loving family seem finally to be coming true when she finally marries Alex...

Timid, mousy designer Rose (Laura Vandervoort) dreams of taking the glamourous fashion world by storm but in an arena where looks and confidence seems to count for more than talent, Rose is lacking the...

Released back in 1979, Alien represented as much of a seismic shift in sci-fi and horror cinema as Jaws and Star Wars did to the Summer Blockbuster or the French New Wave did to the Movie Brat generation,...

Every year at FrightFest there’s a film I rave about, that I get evangelical about, that I breathlessly run up to people and grab them and shake them and tell them “You HAVE to see this...

When she can’t get in touch with her divorced, estranged father, Dave (Barry Pepper), as a massive hurricane batters Florida, college swimming champ (pay attention, that’ll prove important!) Haley (Kaya...

When notoriously reclusive composer Richard Marlowe (Rutger Hauer) commits operatic suicide, dousing himself in petrol and burning himself alive, his estranged daughter Rose (Freya Tingley) inherits his...

Arguably one of the sickest, most depraved, downright disturbing and, crucially, truly feminist horror movies of recent years, Lucky McKee’s 2011 Jack Ketchum-authored The Woman saw Pollyanna McIntosh’s...

The Magnificent Obsession Of Michael Reeves as titles go is somewhat misleading. A far better title would have been The Magnificent Obsession Of Dima Ballin. Perhaps better known as the founder and...

In Greek mythology, the Furies were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for their crimes. In Australia, not so much, as leaving aside the film’s epilogue, the most feminist thing...

Paranoia, isolation and ancient evil stalks the wilderness of the plains in debut feature director Emma Tammi’s atmospheric homesteader horror The Wind.   Living alone in the middle of nowhere,...

Argentina, 2101. A nameless man (Esteban Prol) wakes up in a pile of bodies covering a vast plain with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Overhead, transport planes circle lazily, corpses being...

The titular “Good Boys” are the Beanbag Boys (so called because they hang out and sit on beanbags, obvs…), Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay), foul-mouthed Thor (Brady Noon) and sensitive Lucas (Keith L....

I’m not gonna bother recapping the plot of Apocalypse Now. If you don’t already know Coppola’s masterpiece, well, you should. The US Army send a guy deep behind enemy lines to kill a rogue officer. But...