Search: Starring Joe Anderson

This feels like an episode of Mystery Theater and will charm fans of old radio horror.

Overall a mixed bag. Good bits. Great bits. Bits in which you want the ground underneath your reclining cinema chair to open and swallow you up.

A wispy romance as ripe as a Regency virgin and twice as fanciful.

This is a thoughtful, suspenseful film.

Only 15 minutes into this instant classic I thought ‘this is a bloody masterpiece’.

An honest musical understanding is displayed throughout and it provides a refreshing undercurrent in what might otherwise be a stiflingly familiar tale.

The success of this film is in its attention to the sort of small human details that create the boundaries of our day to day worlds, the things we hang onto and use to define normality.

Borg's assured direction and the cinematography of Christopher Ross (of darker Eden Lake and London to Brighton fame) maintain a noir-like chiaroscuro style throughout.

Any number of the film’s frames belong in frames, fit to adorn palace walls.

For all its flaws, Hangman is quite watchable and doesn't overstay its welcome.

Olyphant has a great seductive charm and impeccable comic timing.

The chiller/thriller mix doesn't set.

Hayet-Kerknawi has cast the small roles well and the film remains involving throughout.

A raw, blistering work which audiences witness rather than watch.

The various torture devices used here are all real but lose much of their horrific impact because the film is so over the top.

Laura Ramsey, in particular, is atrociously bad as the increasingly hysterical Stacy, so that one sometimes wonders if she's deliberately taking the piss.