London Reviews

Following a traumatic accident during the testing of a new deep-sea diving suit which almost costs her life, brilliant but highly strung marine biologist Olive (Anna Dawson) finds herself fired from mildly...

“Every apocalypse deserves an afterparty!” The apocalypse has come and gone and humanity has won the war against the undead. But if you still want to indulge your inner Rick Grimes, the ReZort is the...

On a rainy night in an isolated bus station, eight strangers are brought together and undergo an experience that will not only change their lives, but the very nature of mankind’s existence forever as one by...

Francesca is, in the purest and simplest of terms, absolute giallo. It captures in totality the essence of a genre that exists still as one of the most distinctive and cultishly adored sub genres in horror...

When a high-tech bank robbery (in Cape Town, South Africa, of all places!) goes wrong and her identity is accidentally revealed, super-thief Alex (Olga Kurylenko) is forced to kill one of her trigger-happy...

An interesting concept that goes very wrong in terms of execution, Another Me is a film bursting with ideas, but failing to deliver on many of them. A teenage riff on the likes of little-seen 70s Roger...

An incredibly stylish outing, Julien Seri’s Night Fare proved a pulse-pounding, kinetic thriller that had the Frightfest crowd lapping up its neon-drenched violence. What appears at first a simple tale,...

Based on Mario Bava's original 1974 classic and following a poorly planned bank heist, three French criminals go on the run, taking a young woman, a father and his sick child hostage. Now a deadly road trip,...

From the director of Late Phases and Here Comes The Devil, Scherzo Diabolico is a highly charged and tense affair that plays out as a dark modern fable about greed, power and revenge, that might just be Adrian...

In recent years, Australia has proved to be a fertile ground of dynamic and intriguing horror cinema, perhaps best exemplified by Jennifer Kent’s outstanding The Babadook. Inner Demon, the work of another...

Now, it might just be me, but when I hear about an insect-based horror film , I immediately think, ‘The Fly’, namely Cronenberg’s 1986 horror / sci-fi romance remake about a scientist who becomes a weird...

Meredith (Shelley Ward) is an attractive single woman, not yet fifty, who has recently adopted two teenage daughters – Anna and Emilie (Luna Belan and Julie Venturelli). After a seemingly happy beginning, it...

With equal measures of gruesome murders and creative visual effects, Suspension is surprisingly hard to turn away from. Switching from black and white to colour, in a way that weirdly reminds me of Kill...

Neatly working its way into that file labelled ‘much better than you expect’, Awaiting is a dark, twisted, brutal little tale. A fresh slant on the backwoods tropes so prevalent in a lot of modern genre...

As any genre fan will be able to tell you, the horror-comedy hybrid is a dangerous path to tread. Often films either dish up the laughs but fail to provide the grue, or serve up lashings of horror but prove...

Who’d be a teacher, eh? I mean, sure, there’s the great holidays. And the pay’s not to be sniffed at. And the easy access to impressionable teenagers (well, for some…). And when you get...

Supernatural slasher ‘Some Kind of Hate’, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer, stars Ronen Rubinstein as Lincoln - the perpetual teenage victim. Similarly to Deathgasm – but nowhere near as awesome – we...

Just when I think I’ve seen just about every way you can kill a soul-seeking flesh eating zombie, Deathgasm comes along and splatters brains with a vibrating rampant rabbit in each temple of the undead’s...

I didn’t have to watch this movie. I could have written the review of 'Most Likely to Die' (and predicted who the killer was) after reading the cast list and the synopsis but I didn't because that...

Anna the agoraphobic is our protagonist in American drama-horror, Shut In, directed by Adam Schindler. However, this fact about our leading lady made me a little uncomfortable from the outset, although I’ll...

I imagine this film is a complete 'indie' dream for those who enjoy unanswered questions, vague storylines and dull scripts. The theory is: Janie (Sarah Hagan) is recovering from a recent violent psychotic...