Author David Watson

When polar fracking tips the Earth of its axis, the ordinary citizens of quiet Pennsylvanian small town Centerville find that not only are the days getting longer but the dead are rising from their graves...

When casino worker and amateur rodeo queen Jane (Eiza González) disappears, her best friend, local diner waitress Heidi (Lucy Fry) is the only person in their hardscrabble New Mexico town who even seems to...

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...

Stockholm Syndrome noun “feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim towards a captor.” Loosely based on the Norrmalmstorg bank...

Marooned in the unforgiving, deadly Arctic wilderness after his plane crashes, stranded pilot Overgard (Mads Mikkelson) ekes out a desperate existence, his every waking moment a battle for survival as he...

In the dying days of World War One, deep behind enemy lines in the wintry Ardennes Forest, British Military Intelligence have discovered an intricate underground bunker complex abandoned by the...

Bish… Bosh… Bash… Wallop! “’AVE SOME OF THAT YOU FACKIN’ CAAAAAN’T!” Rip… Tear… Slash… Stab! “I’M GONNA KILL YOU, YOU DIRTY FACKIN’...

Space really is the final frontier in writer/director team Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl’s audaciously lo-fi Sci-Fi/Western Prospect. Dragged around the galaxy by her fortune-hunting father Damon...

It’s nearly 50 years since the Age of Aquarius ended in the bloody quietus of Charles Manson’s Family’s murder spree and, “lucky” us, we’re getting at least 3 films that use Charlie and the...

How long can you hold your breath? Breathing is a reflex action. It’s automatic. We do it unconsciously, without thinking, about 19,000 times a day. It’s natural.  When we breathe in, our lungs...

***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS*** Don’t read this review. Wait. Watch the film. Writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez’s psychosexual sci-fi/horror Elizabeth Harvest works best the less...

When the grandmother who’s raised them dies (their parents having inexplicably died when their hot air balloon crashed and they were eaten, well, by lions…), orphaned half-brothers Omar (Antonio Aakeel)...

Obsessed with the Moon and Apollo 11’s mission to it, geeky young outsider Tomas (Angelo Mutti Spinetta) yearns for his sexy older neighbour Iris (Angela Torres) who he glimpses through his telescope while...

Squat and stocky, with her heavy brow and practically Neanderthal features, Swedish customs officer Tina (Eva Melander) may be a figure of fun to some of the travelers passing through the border ferry...

Imagine Homer Simpson’s snowplough-driving alter ego Mr Plow was mad as Hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore, turning vigilante to clean up the streets and accidentally kicking off a Yojimbo-style mob...

“Brave”… “Brave” is what film critics call it when an actress pushes her boundaries and uglies herself up to play the kind of role Christian Bale or Leonardo DiCaprio or Russell Crowe take as...

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...

Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) is a helluva nice guy. Just ask any of the staff and patrons of the banks he robs.  70 years old and refusing to go quietly into that good night, gentleman thief and escape...

A former Navy SEAL-turned-black ops specialist, Jack Collins (Milo Gibson) tracks and assassinates terrorists for the CIA, handling the jobs that are too hot for official sanction, terminating with extreme...

Sub-text is everything.  Horror, the best horror, has always reflected the times we live in. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, the spectre of Hiroshima loomed over the likes of Godzilla and Them! our nuclear sins...

Social media sex scandals, poisonous gossip, cyber bullying, toxic masculinity, paranoia and hysteria unite with deadly results in Sam Levinson’s post-modern millennial riff on the Salem Witch Hunt,...