‘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’…
Browsing: Second Sight Films
‘Brilliantly scripted, atmospherically chilling and seat-edged suspenseful right up to its masterful shock ending… hard-hitting psychological horror’ **** Radio Times ‘Genuinely unsettling… Infusing the gothic tradition with a neat industrial spin… shrewd reimagining of the familiar haunted house genre feels simultaneously old-fashioned and strikingly modern’ 10 great horror films of…
THE GUEST **** USA / UK 2014 Dir: Adam Wingard. 99 mins Director Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s follow-up to knowing latter-day slasher YOU’RE NEXT was this clever, 80s-hued thriller, defined by its filmmaker as an inverted HALLOWEEN filtered through THE TERMINATOR. Hunky Dan Stevens turns up at the family…
‘Mesmerising performance… compelling… ’80s-pastiche feel of Drive… an equally well-judged music score… a satisfying vein of black humour’ **** Empire ‘Rare is the thriller that converts Downton Abbey fans to the dark side…a playful ’80s-infused crowd pleaser’ **** Total Film ‘Stevens is excellent both as the cordial house guest and the…
‘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…