THE STRANGERS **** USA 2008 Dir: Bryan Bertino. 86 mins Opening with a questionable “inspired by true events” tag, violent crime statistics and a solemn documentary-style voiceover in the tradition of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, Bryan Bertino’s home invasion horror is very much a genre film of its time.…
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Horrifying home-invasion The Strangers, the 2008 debut film from writer-director Bryan Bertino (Mockingbird, The Monster), stars Liv Tyler (Lord Of The Rings, The Leftovers) and Scott Speedman (Underworld, Animal Kingdom) as a couple terrorised by masked attackers. Garnering cult status since its release, The Strangers now arrives as a Limited-Edition…
Creating waves on the US festival circuit and garnering best feature awards galore ECHOES OF FEAR is set to scare the living daylights out of UK audiences as it arrives on digital and DVD this summer from Second Sight Films. Turning the haunted house genre on its head, this chilling…
ECHOES OF FEAR **** USA 2018 Dir: Brian Avenet-Bradley, Laurence Avenet-Bradley. 90 mins Echoes of a chilling past resonate back into a young girl’s present and future as she visits her dead Grandpa Jimmy’s house for a few days unaware of the horrors that lay in store for her there…
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES **** USA 1963 Dir: Roger Corman. 79 mins Far from the gimmicky shocker suggested by the title, this stand-out Corman picture has a terrific performance by Ray Milland as a modern spin on the doomed Poe protagonists that dominated the filmmaker’s work at…