‘One of the strongest, most effective horror films of recent years… awards-quality lead work from Essie Davis’ Empire ‘How terrific to find a crowd-pleasing chiller that wants to do more than make you jump – to move your heart and your head, rather than just your body’ Mark Kermode, The…
Browsing: Second Sight Films
SESSION 9 ***** USA 2001 Dir: Brad Anderson. 100 mins Co-writer / director Brad Anderson, who later made the THE MACHINIST, wanted to make a grown-up horror film with serious intent at a time when the genre had run the smug, self-conscious post-SCREAM teen horrors into the ground and, in…
‘This thrilling, dizzying debut… is a nostalgic treat for anyone old enough to remember the infamous “video nasties” scare of the early 80s’ Mark Kermode ‘Ambiguous, introspective, thoughtful. As weirdly uncomfortable as horror should be, and rarely is… Niamh Algar is terrific, and deeply empathetic’ Flick Philosopher ‘Bailey-Bond displays…
SWALLOW ***** USA / France 2019 Dir: Carlo Mirabella-Davis. 94 mins There are echoes of Todd Haynes’ [SAFE] in this haunting psychological horror piece about an alienated woman’s desperate retreat into a condition that provides her with the comfort and fulfillment lacking elsewhere – though Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ feature debut is…
‘Combining a cool Hitchcock aesthetic with 70s-esque suburban paranoia and a modern narrative sensibility, Swallow is an intriguing, exciting feature debut… anchored by an astonishing performance by Hayley Bennett’ AWFJ.org ‘This is Bennett’s show… It’s a role you can imagine a young Isabelle Huppert playing, and there’s no higher praise than that’…