STING Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kiah Roache-Turner Stars: Ayla Browne, Ryan Corr, Penelope Mitchell, Noni Hazlehurst, Robyn Nevin, Jermaine Fowler, Danny Kim, Sylvia Colloca, Lee Perry. Anyone afraid of snakes and creepy crawlies should probably look away now. In the vein of Arachnophobia and Eight Legged Freaks and their ilk comes yet another horror film featuring a nasty, lethal and alien spider …
THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1
THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1 Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Renny Harlin Stars: Madelaine Petsch, Froy Guttieriez. Renny Harlin was one of the great action directors of the late 80s and early 90s, with films like Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight to his credit. But lately he seems reduced to directing second rate and formulaic horror films like 2004’s Exorcist: The Beginning, middling …
BAGHEAD
BAGHEAD reviewed by GREG KING Director: Alberto Corredor Stars: Freya Allen, Ruby Barker, Peter Mullan, Jeremy Irvine, Anne Muller, Ned Dennehy, Saffron Burrows. Sometimes it seems as though we get two films released around the same time that have the same basic concept (eg: Deep Impact and Armageddon both films concerning a giant meteor headed for Earth, or Dante’s Peak and Volcano, both dealing with …
TALK TO ME
Talk To Me Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Danny and Michael Philippou Stars: Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Miranda Otto, Marcus Johnson, Otis Dhanji, Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio. A superior and effective Australian produced horror film, Talk To Me taps into the genre of many American-made horror films in which a group of teens play around with the supernatural and face some nasty consequences …
HALLOWEEN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Gordon Green Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Will Patton, Andi Matichak, Haluk Bilginer, Nick Castle, Rhian Rees, Jeffereson Hall, Toby Huss, Dylan Arnold, Drew Scheid, Virginia Gardner. Set forty years after the events of the original, David Gordon Green’s take on John Carpenter’s classic genre defining slasher film from 1978 works effectively as a direct sequel. …
SLENDER MAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sylvain White Stars: Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, Javier Botel. The term “creepypasta” is one I’d never heard of before, but apparently it was created to describe internet spread urban legends. One of the more notorious was that of the so-called Slender Man, a boogieman that was created by Eric Knudsen under the pseudonym of Victor Surge …
