redolent with imagery and running metaphors that are deeply relevant to Romanian politics and social structures, but to an outsider they make the film seem beautifully surreal.
An alcoholic butcher finds himself
sucked into a world of murder he
can't escape.
Throughout it all, the requisite nausea-inducing camerawork and ear-piercing shrieking will have you wishing this was one found footage flick that had stayed lost.
A found-footage film about a group of young people making documentary in the Los Angeles canyons and encountering something primitive and terrible.
A troubled Fifties Swedish teenager is sent to boarding school, where he takes it out on the bullies. Out to own as part of the European Mavericks Heart Of Darkness box set.
Alvarez's film goes efficiently through the expected motions without really finding its own identity in relation to either the original film or the contemporary horror landscape.
One might fairly say that The Evil In Us is cobbled together from scraps of other films, but it's nicely shot and edited and looks, overall, much better than one would expect with that in mind.
Six friends fall foul of a drug-borne virus which turns users into vicious, unreasoning cannibals.
Lock up your biologists! Second
rate comic sci-fi effort where the
jokes fall as flat as the science...
though the stars all have glossy
kissable hair of course.
The film is laced with both deadpan and sly humour, and is laugh out loud funny.
A newly-married man must follow his father-in-law into the profession of State executioner in order to keep the family apartment, but he doesn't have the temperament for the job.
By trying to make the views expressed by commentators and members of the public seem natural, spontaneous and heartfelt, the debate has been dumbed down to sub primary school level.
A docudrama set in a parallel world explores issues surrounding the death penalty.
The scripting is loose and Albertine - best known as the former guitarist with punk group The Slits - and real-life conceptual artist Gillick have the rawness that comes with first-time acting.
Examination of the relationship between a middle-aged couple who are planning a move.
Exit Humanity's attempt to rewrite history may bring a bit of fresh meat to the table, but it hardly adds up to a bright new future for the zombie genre.
Humans struggle to survive an outbreak of zombies in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
As a work of fiction focusing on human rights, as a protest film, it is first rate. But as cinema entertainment it may well be swamped by similar themed films using larger budgets.
An insight into the life of a man who is kidnapped and subjected to extraordinary rendition.
Extras is a film about the little people. At first they seem like nonentities, but as the story unravels we gradually get to know more about them - the difficulties they face in life, their dreams, and their various quirks
A group of film extras gradually come to dominate the production they're involved with.
As gratuitous and confrontational a story as you’re likely to come across.
A group of punk misfits ask a famous novelist to join their band... despite the fact he can't play, only to find their plans spiralling out of control.
