Is this the best use of Ravel’s Bolero in a movie? You can just imagine the discordant crash of the ending.
Continue readingExit 8 (8番出口) (2025)
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1000 Women in Horror (2025)
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Well, it’s a no brainer that I would love this. Bring together horror films and women kicking ass and Australian film critic, writer and legend Alex Heller-Nicholas and you’ve got a winner.
Continue readingA Useful Ghost (ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ)(2025)
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At the end of a long day of film watching, when you’re feeling a little bit tired emotionally wrung out by a couple of films, what you need is something a bit silly, a bit lovely and with a few twists and turns you don’t see coming.
Continue readingIt Ends (2025)
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Good Boy (2025)
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And the award for the best dog acting at the Melbourne International Film Festival goes to Indy who played Indy in Good Boy!
Continue readingDead Lover (2025)
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Hallow Road (2025)
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Hello road! Horror/thrillers are made or broken by their endings, although some are so good in every other respect that you can forgive an ending that doesn’t live up to its promise. I might have to think about this one for awhile because it feels like it is 90% great and 10% both heavy handed and enigmatic.
Continue readingWe Bury the Dead (2024)
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Zombie movie – tick. Set in Tasmania – tick. Starring Daisy Ridley – okay, I can go with that.
Continue readingNosferatu (2024)
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I’ll admit upfront that I’m not a fan of the films of Robert Eggers. I didn’t mind The Witch, although I found the ending laughable which was a shame as it had a great mood, but I really hated The Northman and The Lighthouse and so when I heard that he had remade Nosferatu, I had mixed feelings.
Continue readingHeretic (2024)
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What is it with horror movies in 2024? It feels like a golden age of clever, intellectual, and suspenseful horrors that trade on our understanding of the genre without ever feeling like they are relying on cheap thrills.
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