MyAnna Buring Archives

The Descent (2005)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 13, 2005Cave Creatures

Film about an all-girl caving expedition encountering underground dwelling monsters. The film that made the name of Neil Marshall who ratchets up a degree of gripping seat-edge tension that far exceeds any other film in recent memory

Director: Neil Marshall

Actors: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Saskia Mulder, Alex Reid, …

Category: Horror

13 November 200516 October 2025 by Roog

Doomsday (2008)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 22, 2008Plague Ravaged Future Wasteland/Action

Immensely satisfying film from Neil Marshall set in a walled-off, post-pandemic Scotland where he seems to have set out to pay homage to sf/action films like Escape from New York and Mad Max 2

Director: Neil Marshall

Actors: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, David O'Hara, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 November 200813 October 2025 by Roog

Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jun 5, 2009Vampire Comedy

This seems to want to do for the lesbian vampire film what Shaun of the Dead did for the zombie film. Alas, the film makes its appeal fairly and squarely into the crude, sexism of British lad culture

Director: Phil Claydon

Actors: James Corden, Mathew Horne, Paul McGann, MyAnna Buring, …

Category: Horror

5 June 200919 October 2019 by Roog

Kill List (2011)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 9, 2011Domestic Lives of Hitmen/Devil Worship Cult

The film that made Ben Wheatley's reputation, this starts as an absorbing kitchen sink drama about the domestic lives of two hitmen before taking a bizarre left field veer into horror territory

Director: Ben Wheatley

Actors: Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring, Emma Fryer, …

Category: Horror

9 October 201119 December 2024 by Roog

Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)

Rating: ★

Nov 20, 2011Twilight Sequel/Vampire Marriage and Pregnancy

The point where the Twilight series collapses under its pretensions and draws every detail of its wedding out for an excruciating hour. A series that has been all about preaching chastity then segues into Right to Life advocacy

Director: Bill Condon

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, …

Category: Horror

20 November 201111 December 2025 by Roog

Breaking Dawn Part Two (2012)

Rating: ★★

Nov 16, 2012Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance

Perhaps the best thing about this is that the Twilight saga is finally ended. This provides a moderately spectacular showdown but also wraps its plotlines up with absurd deus ex machina wimp outs and an infuriating twist ending

Director: Bill Condon

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen, …

Category: Horror

16 November 201211 December 2025 by Roog