THE UNWELCOME *** UK 2010 Dir: Keith R. Robinson. 81 mins I am not a fan of the ‘found footage’ genre or many of the Paranormal investigative films that spring up usually when one gets the notion to make a repeat of the success of the original The Blair Witch…
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‘Ingenious and often genuinely frightening film…a digital mocu-real nightmare’ **** The Guardian ‘Entertains as much as it scares. That’s my kind of horror’ The Independent ‘Rarely has a movie manipulated so skilfully the disturbing power of black screen space and the potential horror within’ The Times ‘Striking at all of…
THE LAST FIVE DAYS * USA 2020 Dir: Clay Moffatt. 70 mins Framed by an unconvincing press conference about the mysterious deaths of two students (“Wasn’t there a tape found in the camera?”), this found footage movie is largely a two hander starring co-writers Clay Moffatt and Joe Pacini, with…
Paranormal forces take over Horror Channel in May with SUPERNATURAL WEEK, eight nights of ghostly scares highlighted by the Channel premieres of PARANORMAL ACTIVTY, the low-budget horror film that became a global phenomenon and David Robert Mitchell’s creepy body horror hit, IT FOLLOWS. The special event also sees the return of genre favourites such…
THE REMNANT *** Canada 2019 Dir: Navin Ramaswaran. 17 mins Here’s a good looking, if thematically limited, exploration of familiar 21st century horror themes from prolific filmmaker Navin Ramaswaran, whose interesting, genre-blurring indie fare includes POOR AGNES (2017). The opening sets the scene – a housekeeper experiences harrowing paranormal activity…