Category: Film Reviews

By Scott Dorward In Fabric (UK, 2018) “A dress of deduction finds its character in a prism of retail abstraction.“ Peter Strickland’s love letter to Italian horror, Berberian Sound Studio, has haunted me since I…

By Scott Dorward The Stepfather (USA, 1987) “Wait a minute. Who am I here?” The Stepfather is one of those films I remember passing over repeatedly at the video store, back in the late ’80s….

By Scott Dorward Gretel & Hansel (USA, 2020) “I know that’s your favourite story but you’ve been telling it wrong.” While Osgood Perkins isn’t exactly a prolific director, his few feature films have made me…

By Scott Dorward Two Thousand Maniacs! (USA, 1964) “…something’s very wrong in this town.” Herschell Gordon Lewis, the godfather of gore, is still a major hole in my horror viewing. Until 2014’s October Horror Movie…

By Scott Dorward Here Comes the Devil (Mexico, 2012) “To them, we’re only a shell. They use us to do evil and then throw us away.” Here Comes the Devil is another film I’ve been…