SEA FEVER **** Ireland / UK / USA / Sweden / Belgium 2019 Dir: Neasa Hardiman. 95 mins A subtle, eerie oceanic exercise in containment in the tradition of Carpenter’s THE THING, minus the horrific catharsis of visceral set pieces. Writer-director Neasa Hardiman’s character-driven feature debut has Hermione Corfield as…
THE MUSIC BOX *** U.S.A. 2019 Dir: John Real. 85 mins A young girl is tragically orphaned and she left in the care of her estranged Aunt Annabelle. They both move into a creepy Victorian house. The young girl Sophie discovers a strange wooden box with a mysterious symbol embedded…
BY DAYS END ** USA 2020 Dir: Michael Souder. 74 mins Troubled couple Carly (Lyndsey Lantz) and Rina (Andrea Nelson) move into a run down motel. Carly has dropped out of med school to pursue a career as a videographer with Rina applying to be an attorney but gets pipped…
SCORCHED EARTH * USA / Canada 2018 Dir: Peter Howitt. 96 mins A cataclysmic environmental disaster known as “Cloudfall” has biblically flooded the planet in the mid-21st century; 50 years on, air and water is precious in a barter economy, while toxins fill the air to the extent that people…
LIMBO **** Spain 2019 Dir: Dani Viqueira. 15 mins A harrowing study of madness and paranoia from writer-director Dani Viqueira, this short pivots around a fearless performance from Xosé Eirín as a family man whom we first meet wielding a shotgun while his terrified wife and daughter desperately plot their…