Headspace (2005)
Apr 19, 2007Expanded Mental Powers and Demons
Modest and effective horror film about a teenager who starts to gains expanded mental abilities - but where this also appears to unleash monsters
Christopher Denham
Shutter Island (2010)
Mar 9, 2010Sinister Psychiatric Institution/Reality Bender
Martin Scorsese and an impressive A-list cast make a 1940s-styled psycho-thriller about a sinister asylum that soon starts into a series of major reality bending turns
Sound of My Voice (2011)
Jan 27, 2014Cult Led by a Woman Who May Have Come from the Future
Fascinating film about a cult centred around a woman who claims to come from the future. Featuring an ethereal performance from a then unknown Brit Marling, the film remains ambiguous about her claims. Less a script than a series of often emotionally raw scenes that have been improvised between the actors
The Bay (2012)
Jan 15, 2013Ecological Catastrophe/Found Footage
Barry Levinson becomes one of the few name directors to venture into the Found Footage genre and soberingly portrays the outbreak of an ecological catastrophe from multiple viewpoints
Camera Obscura (2017)
Apr 27, 2020Camera That Predicts Deaths
Modest horror film in which a photographer obtains a camera that predicts deaths before they happen - only to then find it predicts his wife's death
Fast Color (2018)
Nov 8, 2021Superpowers Film
A superpowers rather than a superhero film with Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman with abilities on the run who is forced to seek refuge with her estranged family