Buck Theorem's Hide-out

FrightFest 2016 it is then. I like it for the moment halfway through the five festival days of horror and harder edges thrillers when y...

Ti kniver i hjertet Marius Holst, 1995, Norway Although the US packaging tries to sell this “in the tradition of My Life as a Dog...

Dominic Shena, 2001, USA Despite ‘Swordfish’s opening call to arms, in which it attacks Hollywood for producing vacuous rubbish, th...

Alfonso Cuarón, 1998, USA Contemporised version of Dickens’ classic updates marshland and London to Florida and the New York art scen...

Tobe Hooper, 1979, USA     This scared the hell out of me as a kid, so I will always have a soft spot for this Stephen King adapt...

S. Craig Zahler, 2015, USA-UK There’s a reason that S. Craig Zahler's ‘ Bone Tomahawk ’ turned up on a lot on horror blogs. It p...

Matt & Ross Duffer, 2016, USA TV When I first saw Franck Khaulfon’s remake of ‘ Maniac ’, there was a delirious thrill as soon as...

Alan Clark, UK, 1974 When I think of Pebble Mill, I think of being a kid in the Seventies and the show ‘ Pebble Mill at One ’, a lu...

Nuclear war in "Akira" . Director Hou Hsaio-Hsien  talks "The Assassin". "Cancelled" podc...

Todd Haynes, 2015, UK-USA Right from the start, Todd Haynes taps into the set decoration all around us by revealing that the patter...

Pengabdi setan Sisworo Gautama Putra, 1982, Indonesia “ Satan’s Slave ” doesn’t waste any time getting into a very chilly scene o...

"Dr. No" by Ian Fleming Once you get past the misogyny and the racism - which you can’t because neither are particularly ...

Radu Jude, 2015, Romania-Bulgaria-Czech Republic-France Radu Jude’s film gives voice to a community that has been unrepresented in ci...