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What emerges is thoughtful and deeply humane, whilst retaining that sense of otherness essential to folkloric tales.

Crampton is clearly having a whale of a time.

Ellery Bute and Todd Jeffrey's art direction presents us with picture postcard settings which conceal much darker things.

There's the potential for some real fun here, but having set up this structure, Smith fails to do anything with it.

Most of Reece’s works are first and foremost character studies, so it’s not surprising that his adherence to plot doesn’t last; the film is better for it.

The thesis behind it doesn’t really emerge until the end, when we get the suggestion that if Band’s work is less visible these days, that’s at least in part because of what has happened to everything else.

A witty, gory and trippy descent into altered states of consciousness, eroticised power plays and the clash between humankind, monstrous entities and hybridised 'others'.

We move from one subject and set of characters to another, but the pacing, energy, horror and humour are perfectly in key, and the whole is a perfect delight.

Stevens uses the Nosferatu framework to tell a story about a marriage.

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

Though its tendency to whimsy means it’s not quite as tightly plotted as it needs to be, this charismatic little thriller still manages to punch above its weight.

If Re-Animator doesn't get your blood pumping, you're already dead.

The conflicting concepts of motherhood at the heart of the film give it a depth and relevance unexpected in this kind of genre piece.

The film fails to acknowledge its own absurdity and that, as it turns out, is okay, because May is more than capable of carrying it as it is.

Sacrifice builds with a slow, gentle rhythm, like the waves rolling up against the shore.

It feels like a natural successor to Gordon’s work, and a film of which he would have been proud.

How much you enjoy it may well depend on your tolerance for the type of project it spoofs.

Characters who belong to a fairy tale or folkloric world struggle to contain themselves in flesh, edged out by the existence of mere mortals who, despite their vulnerability, forever push them to the edges of the narrative.

Ted Geoghegan's darkly witty, stunningly beautiful film is the kind of horror we don't see much these days.