DEMONIC * Canada 2021 Dir: Neill Blomkamp. 104 mins Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s feature debut DISTRICT 9 (2009) showed immense promise unfulfilled by his bigger-budgeted (though not uninteresting) Hollywood follow-ups ELYSIUM and CHAPPIE. This oddly uncinematic, tedious venture into possession horror manages at least one remarkable achievement: it’s far worse than…
Browsing: Possession
The Buffalo, New York based FoxTrot Productions return to the world of horror once more with Gravis Terrae (Latin for “Earthly Grave”), with a possession horror film about a mysterious root that takes the meaning of the word “terror” to a whole new level. The film centers around a recently…
METAMORPHOSIS *** South Korea 2019 Dir: Hong-seon Kim. 113 mins This cluttered but sometimes creepy, well acted South Korean horror movie has a visceral opening – albeit on very familiar ground – as a handsome young priest fails to save a possessed young woman, complete with old-school throat-inflating bladder FX.…
THE CLEANSING HOUR **** USA 2019 Dir: Damien LeVeck. 94 mins Although some of its noisier overt demon stuff gets a bit listless, here’s a genuinely fun, witty take on the familiar 21st century horror trope of the doomed documentary crew venturing into territory best left unexploited. Ryan Guzman is…
Dark Sky Films will be releasing director Alessio Liguori’s IN THE TRAP on Digital / VOD this April. In the film, a secluded man who’s convinced an evil force wants to take possession of his soul has his beliefs tested after an alluring woman enters his life. Synopsis: Philip,…