Pyewacket
A film about an obnoxious, spoilt teenager dabbling in black magic to resolve her mummy issues and getting her comeuppance. Despite some honking teen dialogue, movie remained watchable in large part, if a little over-stretched.
Month: March 2018
The Devil and the Blacksmith
Something of a children’s fable or a folk story. It’s beautiful and the costuming in it is great, evoking stuff like Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. With writhing demons and lost children, it hits somewhere between Legend and Pan’s Labyrinth. Great movement work from the demons too.
Cold Skin
A film about a lighthouse and its occupants under seige from fish-people on a remote island. It’s kind like the anti-Shape of Water, because instead of a woman falling in love and saving a fish-man, a guy kidnaps, rapes and beats a fish-woman. This sparks off the conflict, which is represented as a microcosm of…
The Ravenous
A solid, quiet but unremarkable French zombie film.
Attack of the Bat Monsters
A glorious revelling in the creature feature B-movie.
The Wanderers: The Quest of the Demon Hunter
A film about a vampire-hunter with an unintelligible Elvis drawl hunts a vampire chick in Transylvania. Running time was twice as long as it needed to be, maybe more.
Kissing Candice
An Irish film about a lassie whose epilepsy may or may not be giving her psychic visions, and a local gang of drooges who are responsible for the disappearance of a young boy. That being said, it feels like the film’s about nothing. I got bored very early in (although it felt long enough for…
Ghost Stories
Just walked home in the dark in knee-deep snow after pure shiting it at a horror movie at the GFT. That’s hardcore filmcore. Although not as hardcore as the GFF staff, some of whom slept overnight in the cinema so they could open – bravo! The director was supposed to be there since it was…
Vampire Clay
Just out of Vampire Clay, which does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a Japanese movie about man-eating clay, and that’s all you really need to know. It’s got the weird silliness and creepiness of Round The Twist, with aspirations to the special effects of something like The Thing or Evil Dead. It…