Tales from the world of Wyrmwood. Wyrmwood: Apocalypse is a sequel to the 2014 Aussie zombie action thriller Wyrmwood. We are back with our fuel-burping undead and the homemade armoured vehicles. Wyrmwood is basically like Mad Max with zombies. Reunite with Barry and Brooke, with Luke McKenzie returning as the baddie Captain’s twin brother, set…
You Are Not My Mother is an Irish folk horror, in the same vein of mental illness or supernatural happening. Char’s mum is manic depressive and she goes missing at the start of the film. And when she comes back, she’s… different. Really good, well acted film. The main character Char is really well performed…
A new bride is taken to meet her husband’s kids in his large country house, in a story that reeks of Bluebeard’s Castle from the outset. All the weans are creepy and she’s just constantly going, “Eh, something’s off”, and having her man gaslight her. He starts off as the good-time da, laughing and playing,…
This film is a mess. A story about a serial killer who is the son of a retired cop (yeah, I know), it is shot partly as a Netflix-style documentary, partly as a drama, then also incorporates first-person narration of the inner monologue of the killer, all the while there is an experimental soundscape running…
Comedy horror about a vampire infestation of Dublin. A hen night from hell is on the rampage, and Deco, a drunken junkie is trying to get back in the house now that he’s starting to sizzle in the sunlight for some reason. Matt is easily manipulated by his older brother, Deco, and guilted into letting…
Total nonsense and complete fun. Ken, a sad divorced dad, who is a shut-in and an alcoholic, tries to earn a living by posting videos online. When a viewer notices an odd event in the background of one of his videos, he blows up as a ghost case. Help comes in the form of Colin…
A short film about survival. A lassie runs and fights for her life in what seems to be a never-ending competitive gauntlet. The director introduced this by saying the original idea was “What if the chicken fight from Family Guy was serious?” As silly as that sounds, this short film actually works. Which is almost…
Out of the World is about a taxi driver/serial killer who falls in love with a deaf dancer. Now, there are so many tropes in that description I can feel you shrinking back. I’ll be honest, I shouldn’t like this film. It’s one in a long line of sympathetic looks at poor misunderstood outsider men…
Boring. Like, almost criminally dull. I mean, I can see what he was going for, a noir action/romance, like Sin City meets John Wick. But, ugh. The gravelly voiced narration, a genre staple, is just cringey, feeling not like the main character’s inner thoughts but the filmmaker having to speak directly to the audience over…
That was fucking great! Run Hide Fight is Die Hard for high school shootings. On the purely fun level, this movie is gripping, with twists and turns, cat and mouse, rising tensions, just excellently put together. There’s a little note of caution when you see a hero vs school shooters film because you don’t want…