Creep (2004)
Jun 16, 2006Deformed Creature in the London Underground
A tense and well sustained horror with Franka Potente trapped in the London Underground after hours and menaced by a deformed creature that lurks in the tunnels
Sean Harris
Trauma (2004)
Feb 25, 2025Reality Blurring Hallucinations
Colin Firth is released from hospital following the death of his wife but experiences a series of reality-blurring hallucinations
Isolation (2005)
Sep 24, 2014Parasitic Infections
Irish horror film about a series of deadly parasites amok on a rural farm. Playing like a serious version of the NZ comedy Black Sheep (but with cows), this has a grim, grimy atmosphere to it that does produce some undeniable effect
See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
Oct 19, 2008True Life Serial Killers
True Crime mini-series based on the infamous Moors Murders of the 1960s and one that seems determined to conduct the least interesting account of the murders possible
Outlaw (2007)
Aug 25, 2009Vigilante Film
British vigilante film that strains at issues of social relevance but only ends up parroting Death Wish cliches
Red Riding (2009)
Jan 31, 2017Hunt for a Serial Killer
Depending on how you saw this, this is either a UK tv mini-series or three separately released films. Taking place over a decade, the three stories have a common locale and overlapping characters in the story of the hunt for a serial killer and the battle against a corrupt police department in Yorkshire
Harry Brown (2009)
Dec 14, 2010Aging Vigilante
A British version of Gran Torino featuring Michael Caine as an aging man who becomes fed up with youth crime in the neighbourhood and takes up arms to go all Charles Bronson on them
Prometheus (2012)
Jun 9, 2012Alien Prequel
Ridley Scott's promised prequel to Alien. The first half creates epic mystery but the answers provided are not nearly as interesting as promised, while the latter half disappointingly settles for doing the Alien standard with decidedly lesser effect
Deliver Us From Evil (2014)
Jul 7, 2014Possession and Exorcism/"True Story"
Scott Derrickson's supposed true-life account of a NYPD cop turned exorcist rehashes every hackneyed possession cliche the horror genre has, yet there comes a point where the film attains an odd conviction
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Aug 1, 2015Spy/Action Film
The Mission: Impossible films have become superbly polished vehicles with exotic locales, death-defying stuntwork and spectacular action sequences. This enacts it all well; the main problem is that Ghost Protocol is such a tough act to follow that this cannot help but fall in its shadow
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Dec 29, 2018Spy/Action Film
The sixth of the Mission: Impossible films. Not the best of the series but Tom Cruise and associates have everything polished to an expertly honed formula by now and the film is a kinetic ride of intensive and often jaw-dropping action sequences
Possum (2018)
Dec 29, 2020Sinister Puppet/Disturbed Psychology
British horror film that develops a sense of uncanniness that resembles an Eraserhead at times with a man haunted by a puppet and giant spiders. The mood is unsettling, least of all that we are never sure what is real or taking place in the character's head
The Banishing (2020)
Jun 27, 2021Haunted House
Christopher Smith seemed one of the most promising genre directors of the 2000s with films like Triangle and Black Death. Here he returns with a venture into the English ghost story
The Green Knight (2021)
Aug 28, 2021Chivalric Quest
David Lowery has emerged as a director to watch in the last few years. Here he conducts a beautifully sparse and more ambiguous take on the legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight