Haunt (2014)
Nov 27, 2015Haunted House
A modern ghost story that aims for a slow, delicate atmosphere. Noble ambitions but what we end up with is a film that fails to produce any boo moment that makes us leap out of our seats
Harrison Gilbertson
Hounds of Love (2016)
Jun 23, 2017Couple Abduct and Imprison a Teenage Girl
Australian film about a couple that abduct and imprison a teenage girl. This received some very good notices in theatrical release but as a horror film, it soft pedals and seems to avoid most of its horror element
Fallen (2016)
Apr 28, 2017Young Adult/Angel-Mortal Romance
Adaption of a Young Adult series of books – this is essentially Twilight but with angels instead of vampires. Another YA effort where we never saw successive chapters due to its box-office flop
Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)
Oct 20, 2018Unexplained Disappearance
The Picnic at Hanging Rock with its hauntingly unsolved mystery is considered one of the greatest Australian films of all time; this mini-series in six one-hour parts drags every beat of the story out and pads the slim original with so many other character mini-dramas and backstories that the mystery is drowned out
Upgrade (2018)
Dec 23, 2018A.I Transforms a Wheelchair-Ridden Man Into a Fighting Machine
Leigh Whannell, James Wan's BFF and co-writer on the Saw and films, takes the director’s chair. A wheelchair-ridden Logan Marshall-Green gets an A.I. implant that gives him ninja super-skills among other things. Whannell’s action set-ups and plot twists are frequently ingenious.
In the Tall Grass (2019)
Oct 18, 2019Trapped in a Sea of Grass/Stephen King Adaptation
Vincenzo Natali, the director of Cube, adapts a novella by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill about people becoming lost in a topographically and temporally shifting sea of grass