London Reviews

Throwing up something of a new slant on the home invasion chiller, Motherly actually appears to be being dubbed an ‘isolation thriller’. And it’s easy to see why, as the Canadian feature centres on...

Dementia is a horrible disease. Often robbing people of their dignity, seeing memories of happy times simply fade away, straining familial relationships to breaking point and leaving relatives backed into...

Heckling. It’s a staple of the stand-up comedy circuit – a launchpad for those of an acerbic wit to fire back at the audience. In fact, you could argue many successful comics have made as much a name...

In this day and age, everyone needs to get paid. So, if you try and stiff someone (or in this case, a group of people) out of their hard-earned cash, prepare to accept the consequences. That is the...

How many times have you been triggered by an entitled assclown while driving and briefly wished savage revenge? In fact, the scenario is so familiar that it’s become a staple for filmmakers, in greats...

With an opening scene reminiscent of late nineties candy-hued cult classic ‘Jawbreaker’, which sees a bitchy high school trio led by the enigmatic Rose McGowan throw their BFF into the trunk of a car for...

Some of the most relevant thrillers, horror films, and dark dramas of the current age are the most quiet in their interrogation of the things our society holds dear. The Clovehitch Killer barely made a splash...

Getting its UK premiere at Frightfest, Blinders is one of those films that will probably just miss the 'best of' lists, but delivers on giving you a good time while you are watching it. Directed (and...

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 violent...

Adding to the list of pleasant surprises from this year’s Frightfest, Two Heads Creek sets out to give its audience a wild ride – and does so. The film follows the journey of Norman (Jordan Waller),...

Set in a dated waterpark, Aquaslash follows a weekend of debauchery and drama for a group of high school graduates and staff members that takes a slide into murderous mayhem as a killer strikes with a...

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...

Clapboard Jungle follows aspiring director and screenwriter Justin McConnell over five years as he aims to finally breakout in the independent film industry after years of zero budget films and dreams...

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...

“Everything you see in the next 80 minutes was created by Evil Dead fans (Deadites).” Such is the opening quote of writer-director Steve Villenueve’s documentary Hail To The Deadites. The film...

Folk horror has had a pretty healthy tradition in British genre cinema, whether it be the ‘classics’ like Blood On Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man, through to lesser-known fare such as Robin...

***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...

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...

Just how much do you trust your partner? How confident are you that, if forced to live together 24/7 under observation, your relationship could continue to flourish? And, last but not least, just how much...

Social media trolls and so-called ‘cancel culture’ seem to have inserted themselves seamlessly into our everyday lives ever since the advent of platforms that are designed to give us dopamine hits from...

Part Battle Royale, part Saw and part college frat film, Triggered plays out as bloody good fun. It is not perfect (I’ll explain later) and it obviously leans heavily on the films noted above, but that...