Browsing: Frightfest 2018

WHITE CHAMBER *** UK 2018 Dir: Paul Raschid. 89 mins A grim Brexit-era sci-fi movie using the visual language of early 21st century horror: the woke-up-in-a-strange-room-and-harassed-by-a-mystery-puppet-master gambit of the torture movie cycle and acid-scarred, feral characters frantically chomping off their own fingers like the “Rage” victims of the 28 DAYS…

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UPGRADE **** USA 2018 Dir: Leigh Whannell. 100 mins Leigh Whannell’s second film as director (following the superior INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3) is a hard-edged slice of technophobic sci-fi in which budgetary restrictions work in the film’s favour and obvious thematic parallels to ROBOCOP and Cronenbergian body horror do not distract…

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