The Call Up (2016)
Oct 6, 2017Deadly Live-Action Videogame
This has the interesting idea of a group of people selected to take place in a live-action videogame only to find themselves trapped in a The Belko Experiment scenario.
Morfydd Clark
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Mar 5, 2018Charles Dickens and the Writing of A Christmas Carol
Among the fad for biopics about writers and the origins of famous stories, this, about Charles Dickens and the creation of A Christmas Carol, is the most lunatic – and that's not counting the blatant lie of the title
The City & The City (2018)
Dec 7, 2018Two Cities That Inhabit the Same Geographic Space
The first of China Mieville's works to be adapted to the screen, a detective story set in two cities that exist in the same geographic space but where each act as their own country. This misses as much as it succeeds
Crawl (2019)
Oct 4, 2019Killer Alligators in the Crawlspace
Alexandre Aja makes a based on true life film where Kaya Scodeario becomes trapped in the crawlspace under a house with alligators as floodwaters rise all around
Saint Maud (2019)
Feb 15, 2021Woman's Madness and Religious Hallucinations
Highly acclaimed film about a nurse’s descent into madness and religious hallucinations
Dracula (2020)
Jan 18, 2020Dracula Adaptation
BBC mini-series retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula that deconstructs and widely expands on sections of the book to create something relentlessly modernistic, sometimes in ways that take you aback
Starve Acre (2023)
Sep 20, 2024Folk Horror
Another entry in the popular Folk Horror revival of the 2020s, this is a superb slow burn film that operates essentially as a British Pet Sematary