Run Lola Run (1998)
Jul 30, 1999Alternate Timelines
Tom Tykwer's visually inventive variant on the alternate timelines theme with Franka Potente trying to replay events to save her boyfriend's life
Franka Potente
Anatomie 2 (2003)
Oct 8, 2005Illicit Medical Experiments
A far less effective sequel to the hit German medical thriller that neglects both the tortuous suspense and grisly horror that made the first film into a stand out
Creep (2004)
Jun 16, 2006Deformed Creature in the London Underground
A tense and well sustained horror with Franka Potente trapped in the London Underground after hours and menaced by a deformed creature that lurks in the tunnels
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: From Vaux to the Sea (2004)
Apr 5, 2018Surreal Mock Biography
The second part of Peter Greenaway's massive multi-media installation, a surreal mock biography dominated by Greenaway's fascination with nonsense lists. Gorgeous to look it, visually busy but does it make for an interesting or even dramatically engaging a film?
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Jun 19, 2016Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
If you want a genuinely scary spook show that will make you jump out of your seat, you would not go wrong with this. On the other hand, the Conjuring films with their claims to true stories of peddle superstition and fabricate most of their so-called facts
Muse (2017)
May 18, 2018Man Haunted by Supernatural Muses
Jaume Balaguero has become one of the most promising of modern Spanish genre directors, principally on the basis of the [Rec] films. However, this supernatural mystery that resembles one of Dario Argento's Three Mothers films fails to quite come together
Between Worlds (2018)
May 3, 2020Astral Projection and Possession
Nicolas Cage career from the mid-2010s gives all impression he has chosen projects for the full-on dementia value. Here he lets all stops go as the spirit of his late wife possesses the body of the teenage daughter of the woman he is seeing