Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Babak Anvari Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi. We don’t see many horror films from Iran, as their cinema is mainly centred around domestic dramas and social realism that subtly critique the repressive regime and its patriarchal nature and religious zealotry. Last year we had the low budget A… Continue Reading »
BLAIR WITCH
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Adam Wingard Stars: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scot, Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the woods. In 1999 the independent film The Blair Witch Project was shot on a micro budget and changed the face of horror… Continue Reading »
DON’T BREATHE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Fede Alvarez Stars: Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto. This tense, claustrophobic thriller cleverly inverts the premise behind such thrillers as Wait Until Dark and Blind Terror, in which a vulnerable blind woman was terrorised by killers until she fought back. Here though it is a blind person… Continue Reading »
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 REVIEWS
by GREG KING The Melbourne International Film Festival screens from July 28 through until August 14. There are some 300 features and documentaries screening, both local and international productions. The opening night film is The Death And Life Of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, and the closing night film is David Mackenzie’s contemporary western Hell… Continue Reading »
THE DEVIL’S CANDY (MIFF 2016) – interview with Sean Byrne
by GREG KING The Devil’s Candy is the sophomore film from Australian director Sean Byrne, who gave us The Loved Ones. Starring Ethan Embry and Pruitt Taylor Vince, this tale of murder, madness and heavy metal music is a variation on the home invasion thriller. Byrne himself describes it as “the Amityville Horror meets Metallica.”… Continue Reading »
LIGHTS OUT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David F Sandberg Stars: Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia, Billy Burke, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Andi Osho, Maria Russell. The best horror films have featured nasty boogeymen that haunt our dreams. In the 80s we had the likes of Michael Myers, Freddie Krueger and Jason Vorhees. More recently we’ve… Continue Reading »