The critically acclaimed breakout Sci-Fi hit of 2018, UPGRADE from director Leigh Whannell (INSIDIOUS, SAW) and the team behind GET OUT, gets its highly anticipated enhanced release as a Limited Edition Blu-ray, complete with a host of brand new special features from Second Sight Films. Synopsis: In a near-future…
Browsing: Upgrade
UPGRADE **** USA 2018 Dir: Leigh Whannell. 100 mins Leigh Whannell’s second film as director (following the superior INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3) is a hard-edged slice of technophobic sci-fi in which budgetary restrictions work in the film’s favour and obvious thematic parallels to ROBOCOP and Cronenbergian body horror do not distract…
SUMMER OF 84 ***** Canada 2018 Dir: Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell. 105 mins In conjunction with another wonderfully evocative synth score by Le Matos, the filmmaking triumvirate behind TURBO KID return with this funny, intense variation on that familiar 80’s horror staple of my-neighbour-is-a-vampire-or-some-other-nocturnal-suburban-threat. The story is framed…