Grimmfest — A–Z of films

On the one level, 68 Kill is pure pulp trash, harking back to director Trent Haaga's Troma roots. On the other, it's brilliantly done.

There's a joyousness about this kind of filmmaking, unrestricted as it is by any concern for convention.

Miller is outstanding.

A film full of dazzling visual invention.

You'll laugh, and wince, and laugh again.

Director Dominic Bridges and co-writer Rae Brunton strike a delicate balance between the comedic and the sinister.

As with most of the best games, the concept is simple; the genius is in the execution.

What Power does differently is to deny us the usual sources of comfort.

There is never much sense of hope in the film, only a brash defiance that sometimes, for all its ugliness, verges on the heroic.

Noelle's transformation from mouse to maniac is also hard to swallow, even with Eastwood's hard sell.

We are plunged straight into the emotional world of characters whose feelings for each other are as pertinent as their survival and combat skills.

Keenly observational and darkly erotic, Poor Agnes is a complex tale full of telling details.

Tim Peter Kuhn's cinematography and Franco Tortora and Tom Batoy’s dramatic score combine to create a sense of disorientation, of psychological disintegration.

Moments of reflection are balanced by playful scenes structured around the clichés of horror filmmaking.

Burke's performance would be riveting even on an empty sound stage.

An adrenaline-fuelled adventure wrapped around an equally fierce political core.

When the film focuses on the living over the undead it is at its strongest.