Scare Package
Right at the time when horror cinema was undergoing a transformation, indulging in sprawling, symbolic genre epics, along came Scare Package to rebel against the trends. Delightfully stupid, gory, and…
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Who Invited Them
Not your typical home-invasion thriller, Who Invited Them spends more of its short and sharp runtime exploring social discomfort, rather than the shock and gore typical of the genre. Adam…
Look at Us Now, Mother!
The synopsis sounds bleak – a daughter trying to understand why she grew up with a mother who seemed to loathe her. An analysis of her childhood artwork and diaries,…
Creepshow
Before the rise of on-demand streaming, television ran to a schedule, and for a long time, it followed a fairly routine format: Soap operas during day, before cartoons and young…
Relaxer
Reportedly based on the already challenging film The Exterminating Angel, Joel Potrykus’s Relaxer may not be a comfortable watch for all audiences. Towards the end of 1999, obsessive, impressionable Abbie…
Merge
Billed as a feature, Merge is actually a compilation of six earlier science fiction short films. This is more like a film festival than a feature, given the lack of…
Caveat
Writer and director Damian McCarthy asks a lot of his viewers in his feature film debut, but those willing to suspend disbelief for 90 minutes will be rewarded with gothic…
Oddity
A year on from her sister’s murder, Darcy (Carolyn Bracken,) a woman who believes herself to be psychic, visits the labyrinthine country home of her brother-in-law, psychiatrist Ted (Gwilym Lee)…
Trafic
Monsieur Hulot returns for his final screen appearance, and, after a series of films in which Jacques Tati cast his character as apparently unemployed, or barely employed, we find Hulot…
PlayTime
After the quirkiness of Mon Oncle, Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot returns, this time to attend a meeting at a hyper-modern Paris office. This time, Tati extrapolates the idea of filming…