The Sin Eater (2003)
Dec 24, 2012Catholic Horror Film
Catholic horror film with Heath Ledger miscast as a priest that was a flopped. This is a fascinating piece of theological horror that plays out with an unusually strong and original script
Shannyn Sossamon
Devour (2005)
Jul 11, 2007Satanic Internet Site
Routine horror film about students being drawn to an internet site that is controlled by The Devil and is then driving them to kill others and themselves
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
May 24, 2009Afterlife for Suicides
Oddball film set in an afterlife for suicides. You keep expecting the film to burst out into a vein of rich black comedy that never comes and you are left with a film that feels as though it is being eccentric for the sake of it.
One Missed Call (2008)
Sep 3, 2009Haunted Cellphone Calls
Probably the worst among the mid-00s fad for English-language remakes of Japanese horror films. Takashi Miike's original is reduced to affectless CGI pop-up scares
The Day (2011)
Feb 7, 2013Post-Holocaust Survivalism
A post-holocaust film that takes its tone from the bleak survivalism of The Road. Much focus on the grim harshness of trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world but there nothing particularly original in the film's treatment
Sinister 2 (2015)
Aug 29, 2015Hauntings and Ritual Killings
The original had some undeniably effective jumps but suffered from a lack of explanatory rationale but this makes for a shaky house of cards when the same arbitrary happenings are extended for a sequel
Grimcutty (2022)
May 5, 2025Internet Meme Boogeyman
A film about Grimcutty, a boogeyman that lurks inside an internet meme and thrives on causing parental fears. This sits on the edge of being almost interesting