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Dundead 2019

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The Blair Witch Project

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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.

(Country: US; Year: 1998; Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez; Writer: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez; Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffith, Jim King, Sandra Sanchez)

Full review See: Interview with Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick about The Blair Witch Project

A Clockwork Orange

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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.

(Country: US/UK; Year: 1971; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick; Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin)

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The Dead Center (The Dead Centre)

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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.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Billy Senese; Writer: Billy Senese; Stars: Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs, Bill Feehely)

Full review See: Interview with Billy Senese about The Dead Center

eXistenZ

Review preview for eXistenZ

Cronenberg has created a dazzling star in the futuristic psycho-thriller firmament.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
Virtual reality gets messy!

(Country: US/Canada/UK; Year: 1999; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Christopher Eccleston, Sarah Polley, Robert A. Silverman, Oscar Hsu, Kris Lemche)

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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.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Joe Berlinger; Writer: Michael Werwie; Stars: Zac Efron, Haley Joel Osment, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Dylan Baker, Brian Geraghty, Terry Kinney, Grace Victoria Cox, James Hetfield, Joe Berlinger, Brandon Trost)

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Far From The Apple Tree

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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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Grant McPhee; Writer: Ben Soper; Stars: Sorcha Groundsell, Victoria Liddelle, Margaret Fraser, Adrienne-Marie Zitt, Lynsey-Anne Moffat, Scarlett Mack)

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The Hole In The Ground

One night, Sarah's young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home. When he returns, he looks the same, but his behaviour grows increasingly disturbing. Soon, Sarah realizes that the boy who returned may not be her son at all...

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2019; Director: Lee Cronin; Writer: Lee Cronin, Stephen Shields; Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, Eoin Macken, Sarah Hanly, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Bennett Andrew, David Crowley, John Quinn, Miro Lopperi, David McMahon, Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey)

Knife + Heart (Un Couteau Dans Le Cour)

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.

(Country: France, Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Yann Gonzalez; Writer: Yann Gonzalez, Cristiano Mangione; Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury, Noé Hernández, Pierre Emö, Pierre Pirol, Thibault Servière, Naëlle Dariya, Salim Torki, Jeremy Flaum, Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury, Noé Hernández, Pierre Emö, Félix Maritaud)

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Level 16

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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.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Danishka Esterhazy; Writer: Danishka Esterhazy; Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning)

Full review See: Interview with Danishka Esterhazy about Level 16

Lords Of Chaos

True story of the Norwegian black metal scene, which saw a teenager mount increasingly shocking publicity stunts to put a band's name on the map.

(Country: UK, Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Jonas Åkerlund; Writer: Dennis Magnusson, Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind, Jonas Åkerlund; Stars: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Valter Skarsgård, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer, Jonathan Barnwell, Anthony De La Torre, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez, Jon Øigarden, Lucian Charles Collier, Anette Martinsen, Andrew Lavelle, Adrian Mills, James Edwin)

Phantasm

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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

(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Don Coscarelli; Writer: Don Coscarelli; Stars: Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, A Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester)

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Ring (Ringu)

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This is an extraordinary film, not least because it is Japanese and yet feels universal.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
A cursed video that spawned a thousand sequels and remakes makes its debut.

(Country: Japan/South Korea; Year: 1998; Director: Hideo Nakata; Writer: Hiroshi Takayashi, based on the novel by Koji Suzuki; Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato)

Full review See: Feature on Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s - Japanese Touring Film Festival

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.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Bret Wood; Writer: Bret Wood, based on the book by Thomas de Quincey; Stars: Lynn Lowry, Kelly O'Neal, Joe Sykes, Alice Lewis, John Schmedes)

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Werewolf (Wilkołak)

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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.

(Country: Poland, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Adrian Panek; Writer: Adrian Panek; Stars: Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica, Danuta Stenka, Maksymilian Balcerowski, Radoslaw Chrzescianski, Werner Daehn, Krzysztof Durski, Matylda Ignasiak, Eugeniusz Malinowski, Helena Mazur, Wojciech Namiotko, Barbara Pigon, Julia Slusarczyk, Jakub Syska)

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