Author David Watson

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...

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...

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!)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Stuck in a small, sleepy, rural village in Finland and mocked and harassed by smalltown homophobes and rednecks, the only escape for mild-mannered Metalhead Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is being lead...

During a prestigious Russian naval training exercise, an accident with a faulty torpedo causes a massive explosion that sinks the "unsinkable" pride of the fleet, nuclear submarine the Kursk, killing all but...

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...