Author David Watson

OBEY “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum!” declares the heavily armed protagonist of John Carpenter’s They Live (re-released this week) just before he...

When his academic/architect father collapses during a lecture tour, Korean-American translator Jin (John Cho) finds himself marooned in the titular city as his comatose parent hovers on the brink of death....

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

Like many young English men visiting Thailand, Billy Moore (Joe Cole) spends much of his time taking drugs, getting into fights and shagging ladyboys. Unlike most of them, Billy Moore does it inside one of...

In the dying days of World War 2, hunted by his comrades and the military police, terrified young German deserter Willi Herold (Max Hubacher) stumbles across an abandoned officer’s uniform and, freezing,...

Imagine they remade The Lavender Hill Mob. But they were all “fackin’ caaaaaants!”  And it’s not funny. In a nutshell, that’s Man On Wire director James Marsh’s King Of Thieves, the...

Arriving at her wealthy, married boyfriend Richard’s (Kevin Janssens) remote, secluded desert hideaway, a hideaway so remote it can only be reached by helicopter, Jen (a wonderful Matilda Lutz) soon finds...

A monster haunts the woods of Devil’s Den. Pitiless and cruel, it hunts and kills those foolhardy or desperate enough to encroach on it’s territory, stalking them, slaughtering them, eating it’s...

As plague ravages the 17th century countryside of Lithuania, an isolated Jewish community is faced with destruction when the neighbouring gentile village holds them responsible for the epidemic and...

On the eve of a tour of the USA, during a raucous post-rehearsal party in a disused school, a street-dance troupe find that the big bowl of sangria they’re drinking has been spiked with LSD and the...

Still haunted by the murder of her parents two decades before by a vengeful Elder God, Ren Reid (Samantha Schnitzler) is an agent at the Artemis Black Site, a secret underground military base where captured...

Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” Lugging a mysterious leather holdall, disgraced children’s entertainer Philip (Sean Harris) returns to his grim, desolate Norfolk hometown and...

Waking up naked next to a desiccated corpse that bears more than a passing resemblance to herself seems nothing new for Emily (Elitsa Bako). Or at least it’s nothing new for Drew (voiced by Bill Oberst Jr.),...

n a world ruled by violence, only tigers are not afraid. But it’s hard to be a tiger when even the safety of your classroom is regularly violated by gunfire and violence. Cowering on the floor during a...

Posing as an innocent teenager, thief Amber (Elyse Dufour) cons her way into the mansion of wealthy occult expert Ted Hooper (Joe Walz) under the pretext of babysitting his neurotic, reclusive son Kevin (Jack...

It’s the near future and, in post-Brexit Britain, bloody civil war rages between the fascistic, totalitarian government and the equally brutal rebel militia, the poor and dispossessed trapped between...

A bold, bloody, genre bending, cyberpunk/body horror mash-up where Siri turns psycho, perhaps the most shocking thing about Leigh Whannell’s gobsmackingly violent, balls-to-the-wall Upgrade is it’s only...

Tormented by the urge to murder his newborn baby, we first meet family man and closet psychopath Reed (Christopher Abbott) standing over the cot and contemplating driving an ice pick into the child’s...

“GORDON’S ALIVE?” Yes, yes, he is. Nearly 40 years after the film that made and then broke him, filmmaker Lisa Downs goes in search of Saviour of the Universe, Flash Gordon aka Sam J. Jones. The...

An idea so good it’s almost surprising no one’s done it before, Egomaniac director Kate Shenton returns with 8-part web series Netfl!x And Kill, riffing on Gogglebox and The Collector to bring us a...

Hotel Artemis? More like Hotel Artifice! Am I right? Goddamn right I’m right. Not exactly boding well for Starz’s rumored TV show The Continental, which will take us behind the front desk of the luxury...