The critically acclaimed breakout Sci-Fi hit of 2018, UPGRADE from director Leigh Whannell (INSIDIOUS, SAW) and the team behind GET OUT, gets its highly anticipated enhanced release as a Limited Edition Blu-ray, complete with a host of brand new special features from Second Sight Films. Synopsis: In a near-future…
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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…
Franchise Corner Entry: SAW SAW **** Australia 2003 Dir: James Wan. 9 mins. This dynamic short film represents a filmed excerpt from a script by James Wan and Leigh Whannell designed to attract film studios in the pursuit of funding for the feature length version. By the end of 2004,…
COOTIES **** USA 2014 Dir: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion. 87 mins An infected chicken nugget turns up at a school in the small town of Fort Chicken, Illinois, where a pigtailed little girl in novelist / substitute teacher Elijah Wood’s class bites lumps out of a pupil’s cheek in class…