“Perpetrator perp-perpetrator, you’re a perpetrator.” The beats of Britney Spears’ Womanizer oddly fit this chaotic, feminist body horror by Jennifer Reeder.
Continue readingPerpetrator (2023)
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Late Night with the Devil (2023)
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This thoroughly enjoyable schlock horror game show pastiche is, as my MIFF buddy Not a Sexy Vampire aptly calls it, “the Don Lane show gone to hell.”
Continue readingIt Lives Inside (2023)
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A guaranteed strategy to stay awake through your third film of the day, is to make sure it’s a horror.
Continue readingPiggy (Cerdita)(2022)
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Carlota Pereda gives us a delicious revenge movie that expands the story from her 2018 short film.
Continue readingMona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)
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My expectations were high for this second feature from A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night director Ana Lily Amirpour.
Continue readingBodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
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This Gen Z horror comedy is bound to become a pop culture favourite with its witty and quotable dialogue and great blend of gore and laughs.
Continue readingSissy (2022)
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Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes have teamed up to bring us a deft blend of Australiana, comedy and horror. It reminded me of Little Monsters in its loving and gory depiction of modern foibles.
Continue readingCrimes of the Future (2022)
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I think I knew this was going to be overblown Cronenberg fan boy drivel but Kristen Stewart so I pushed on through to a 9.45pm fourth film of the day sold out screening. I was lulled occasionally by KStew and the always mesmerising Léa Seydoux and stuck it through to its trite ending.
Continue readingYou Won’t Be Alone (2022)
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It’s going to be hard to forget this dark fable by Australian Goran Stolevski (his very different Of An Age is also screening at MIFF). He’s not afraid to be daring, setting the story in 19th century Macedonia and centring it on a largely non-verbal girl.
Continue readingGaia (2021)
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Jaco Bouwer’s first feature starts with great visuals and effective suspense but gets lost in a a hallucinogenic mess that promises more than it delivers.
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