Silent Tongue (1994)
Feb 27, 2002Western/American Indian Ghost
A directorial outing from actor/playwright Sam Shepard set in the West as Richard Harris buys an Indian daughter for his son River Phoenix
Dermot Mulroney
Copycat (1995)
May 11, 2003Serial Killer Thriller
Strong and effective serial killer thriller that was overlooked by the success of the same year's much more high profile Se7en. Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter give excellent performances in a finely tuned script
The Trigger Effect (1996)
Dec 12, 2004The Downfall of Civilisation
Excellent and understated directorial debut from screenwriter David Koepp where a mysterious citywide power cut suddenly brings out tensions and prejudices among people
Zodiac (2007)
May 27, 2007True Life Serial Killer
David Fincher's gripping investigation into the unsolved true-life Zodiac Killer case. Fincher's stagings are exacting and the mystery he builds intensely absorbing
Dante’s Inferno (2007)
May 28, 2010Vision of Hell/Puppet Show
Modernised version of the classic journey though Hell conducted with cardboard puppets - a uniquely appealing experiment peppered with a number of biting contemporary jibes
Stoker (2013)
Mar 13, 2013Sinisterly Charming Uncle
The English-language debut from South Korea's Park Chan-wook is a supremely controlled film, more like a period arthouse film than drenched in the buckets of gore we expect of Park … Essentially a reworking of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, a film that takes place all in smouldering tensions
The Rambler (2013)
Sep 28, 2022Surreal Road Movie
A man just out of jail leaves his wife after an argument and starts hitch-hiking. And then things start to get really weird
Insidious Chapter 3 (2015)
Jun 6, 2015Haunting/Possession
This doesn't have James Wan directing and is a far less interesting ghost story before doing a repeat venture into the beyond. On the plus side, incoming director Leigh Whannell does generate a fair degree of eerie tension
Lavender (2016)
Oct 18, 2016Haunting/Fugue State
From the director of The Last Exorcism Part II, a title that does nothing to suggest a horror film. All we get is a ghost story that does an M. Night Shyamalan shift into an improbably contrived fugue state drama
I Still See You (2018)
Nov 1, 2019Young Adult/Ghostly Remnants in the Aftermath of a Catastrophe
A Young Adult film that comes with a highly original premise concerning the aftermath of a catastrophe that has left ghostly figures trapped in timeloops repeating the same moves
Umma (2022)
Aug 27, 2022Vengeful Ghost Mother
Undeniably effective ghost story where Sandra Oh plays a woman who is haunted by the ghost of her abusive traditional mother
Scream VI (2023)
May 6, 2023Slasher Sequel
The sixth entry in a series that began as a smart and clever parody/deconstruction of the slasher film. Now this has become just another teen franchise film that has forgotten all the meta margin notes.