The role of Chan is a brave choice for Au, a pop star with a fairly clean cut image, but it enables him to demonstrate that he’s serious about acting, giving him plenty to wrestle with.
Pastor Leung, who preaches God's forgiveness, finds himself in a dire situation when his church gives shelter to a young man who caused the death of his beloved daughter.
Ignatius and Psinakis know what they want and most of the time, they get it.
It’s 1977, and after a diamond heist goes seriously awry with multiple slaughters, two small-time crooks attempt to flee the wrath of the hitman put on their tail. Seeking refuge at a motel in the remote foothills of Pennsylvania run by a very peculiar owner and his sister, they make the mistake of thinking that they're safe.
Portabella's repurposing and reimagining of the elements at Franco's disposal creates something genuinely (and appropriately) otherworldly.
Avant-garde documentary that uses behind-the-scenes material from Jess Franco's Count Dracula film to reconfigure the Dracula story into an otherworldly tale.
Feuillades indoor sets are still cluttered but outside he makes more use of the openness and of the trappings of modernity: the car, the train, the tram, the movie theatre.
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
What might have worked fantastically as a short or as a series of separate sketches scattered through a programme or series becomes exhausting when stretched over 80 minutes.
In the early 1960s, a family man-turned-vampire struggles with his beastly nature while his devoted wife tries to keep anyone from finding out, including their teenage daughter.
Though it’s a bit stagey in places, the film...hits on something meaningful in the way that it uses 18th Century social conventions to address to the discomfort and hypocrisy of a subsequent age.
Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of Germany in the late 18th Century.
Profoundly unsettling, richly atmospheric, a milestone in the development of cinematic ‘grammar’ as well as an edge-of-the-seat horror movie to rival the best.
A young occultist stumbles upon a French village shrouded in fog and haunted by a vampire.
The charismatic Kim Sang-Kyung tends to dominate scenes even when playing a downbeat character, but Kim Kang-woo is impressive in the quieter role of the troubled Park.
A murder investigation becomes even more complicated when the corpse disappears from the morgue.
The film takes time to gather pace and discover its true direction. Once there, the story takes hold and won’t let go.
Three lighthouse keepers arrive on an uninhabited island 20 miles off the Scottish coast. It is the start of a six week shift that is anything but routine as they make a discovery that provokes greed, fear, paranoia and a vicious fight for survival.
Well substantiated and delivered with wit and occasional humour by a fantastic cast of beekeepers and related tradespeople who feel passionately about the issues involved.
An in depth look at the mysterious disappearance of honeybees and what it could mean for the rest of us.
Visiting them through the medium of film allows us to appreciate them as the curators intended, moving in close to take in the details, drawing back to take in the full impact of his experiments in colour.
A look at an exhibition of the work done by Van Gogh in the south of France.
Patterson handles the acceleration and deceleration throughout with aplomb, notching things up or down at just the right moments and using inventive camerawork and sound design that encourages you to lean in and listen during the film's quieter moments.
A late night radio presenter and a switchboard operator begin to suspect something odd is happening in their small town.
Inti Briones's muddy, saturated black and white imagery complements director Daniela Thomas' tight close-ups and lingering landscape shots in conveying both the paradox of the location and the pressure its inhabitants feel.
Drama about slavery in the gemstone mines of Brazil before independence from Portugal.
There are a lot of traces of other filmmakers’ work in Saint-Jean’s body horror that is most reminiscent of an extended vintage monster-of-the-week-kind of episode of The X Files.
In Saint-Étienne, an ancient forest village, a young woman uncovers the mystery surrounding the sudden death of her father.
Distinctly amateurish kung-fu kicks and delightful rubber-suited dinosaur antics can't quite disguise the fact that Steere is a filmmaker who knows what he's doing.
He's a priest, but he's also a velociraptor. Together they fight crime.
With characters coming and going continually, the film is wildly uneven in tone, sometimes broadly comic, sometimes painfully dark. In many ways this suits its efforts to address the chaotic nature of life.
The tale of an impotent man who tries to assert his masculinity through fighting but cannot come to terms with his past.
More than one participant here talks about the sense of voyeurism which these paintings create – the idea that one is witnessing moments not meant for the public gaze.
As well as bringing Vermeer's works together, both the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis in the Hague have conducted research into Vermeer's artistry, his artistic choices and the creative process behind his paintings.
Maura Delpero’s multi-layered drama sees its heroine growing up and coming to understand the world in new ways at the same time as the village itself shifts, not altogether willingly, into the modern era.
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
A story which is, ultimately, about learning to think differently, to change the way that we direct our attention and resources in order to open up the possibility of renewal.
At some point in the future the Earth’s ecosystem collapses. A tough 13-year-old called Vesper, whose father is paralysed, tries to get food for them wherever she can. When she finds a mysterious woman in the forest one day she starts to hope that things will change.
Full of gruesome violence but with a lot of heart, VFW is best watched as part of an audience, or at least with a group of friends and a good quantity of drink.
A group of war veterans must defend their local VFW post and an innocent teenager against a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of punk mutants.
By far the best instalment to date, with a stylistic consistency and a sharp wit which make it worth seeking out regardless of your feelings about the found footage genre as a whole.
An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analogue mashup of the forgotten Eighties.
Viewers end up spending an inordinate amount of time watching fuzzy images of people running round corridors shouting incoherently, and frankly that’s boring.
Another entry in the popular horror anthology series, this time featuring body horror and a sewer-dwelling monster.
Chaotic and fragmented, VHYes initially snares the viewer with simple curiosity value and then, as distinct themes and characters begin to emerge, becomes harder and harder to look away from.
12-year-old Ralph, over one formative week in late 1987, mistakenly records home videos and his favourite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape, with unexpected consequences.
Silly though it my be on the surface, the film's success is not just down to luck.
A caustic 1980s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. He decides it's best to try and blend in.
The best movie this wonderful writer/director has made in a long time; funny, sharp, perfectly paced and rather gorgeously shot, with a quartet of cracking parts for excellent actors placed firmly at its centre.
Two young American girls on holiday in Barcelona become romantically involved with a Spanish painter.
