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Festival coverage

Dundead

2 April – 5 April 2019

Far From The Apple Tree
Far From The Apple Tree

The popular horror festival returned for 2019 packed with scary screenings, taking place at Dundee Contemporary Arts.A strong line-up included some of the hottest horror films of the year from around the world, alongside a selection of genre classics, and there was also a notoriously fiendish quiz.

The festival ran from 2 to 5 May, with a teaser screening of Lords Of Chaos on 25 April.

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Latest reviews

  • A Clockwork Orange
    Review preview for A Clockwork Orange

    Kubrick's canvas is best enjoyed large, right at the front.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Long-banned film about a future distopia.
  • Those Who Deserve To Die
    Review preview for Those Who Deserve To Die

    Heavily invested in style, not always so strong on substance.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A series of vicious murders are taking place, each performed with military precision, yet the killer is reluctant. It is the ghost of a vengeful 10-year-old girl guiding him to act, and she will not be denied.
  • Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile
    Review preview for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile

    By avoiding serial cliches, director Joe Berlinger touches on a different level of revelation.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
  • Knife + Heart
    Review preview for Knife + Heart

    This isn't the kind of film that's destined to win mainstream awards but Paradis' performance deserves to be remembered.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald... then one of her actors is brutally murdered.
  • Far From The Apple Tree
    Review preview for Far From The Apple Tree

    The production design here is exquisitely detailed and complemented by careful lighting choice that generally keep things realistic but sometimes throw in a hint of giallo.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A struggling artist gets her dream job working for a renowned visual artist. While cataloguing her work she is shocked to keep seeing a girl who closely resembles herself, and learns that this girl is actually her boss' missing daughter.
  • The Dead Center
    Review preview for The Dead Center

    Whilst this may superficially seem like just another horror film about possession or a zombie, it has a lot more going on both narratively and thematically.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A hospital psychiatrist's own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side.
  • Level 16
    Review preview for Level 16

    The more science fiction you have watched (or read), the more chills you will feel running down your spine as the carefully structured story plays out.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Two girls trapped in a prison-like boarding school embark on a dangerous search to uncover the truth behind their imprisonment.
  • Werewolf
    Review preview for Werewolf

    You don't have to look far for allegory in Panek's film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Eight children rescued from a concentration camp, find themselves under siege from a freshly pack of former camp guard dogs.
  • Phantasm
    Review preview for Phantasm

    You can turn it upside down, inside out and back-to-front and you might be able to work most of it out, but there will always be one thing that doesn't fit.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    Baffling Seventies horror flick about a scary tall mortician, killer dwarfs and sci-fi spheres
  • The Blair Witch Project
    Review preview for The Blair Witch Project

    Although the film is nowhere near as terrifying as it's made out to be, its shunning of shock tactics in favour of distant sound effects and creepy environments creates a psychological terror which is far more disturbing.

    Trinity · 4 out of 5
    Handheld, hyped-up horror.

A–Z of Dundead 2019 reviews

Features

  • A spell in the woods
    Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick on The Blair Witch Project
  • Inside his head
    Billy Senese on psychiatry, horror, The Dead Center and building stories through sound
  • On the level
    Danishka Esterhazy on telling women's stories in genre films and Level 16