Sheila Vand

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Rating: ★★★½
Oct 20, 2014Iranian Vampire Film
Claimedly the world's first Iranian vampire film. Although not quite the case, this is an attention grabbing pitch. The film has the wonderfully haunted quality of a Nadja while inverting vampiric and Islamic imagery with sensational regard
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Holidays (2016)

Holidays (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Aug 7, 2016Horror Anthology
Another in the spate of multi-director horror anthologies with each episode here being set around a holiday. As with these films, some of the episodes work well, some end with a puzzled WTF and most fall somewhere in between
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XX (2017)

XX (2017)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 5, 2017Women-Directed Horror Anthology
As directors, women are underrepresented – in terms of the content listed on this side, for example, probably less than 5% has been made by women. As a believer in equal opportunities for all, one can only cheer on XX where five women have gotten together to make a horror anthology
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Prospect (2018)

Prospect (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 3, 2019Interstellar Prospectors/Planetary Adventure
I can't say the premise of this - a gold prospecting story located in space - did much for me. Contrary to expectation, this is a surprisingly good planetary adventure that does a fine job creating an alien world with minimalist effect and telling a strong character-driven story
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The Wave (2019)

The Wave (2019)
Rating: ★★
Jan 31, 2020Reality Bending Drug Hallucinations
Justin Long goes on a bender and takes some drugs that bend reality and leave him moving through time. Sort of like a version of Scorsese's After Hours that dives into drug culture, this wants to be edgy but ends up in surprisingly traditional places.
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The Rental (2020)

The Rental (2020)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 21, 2021Guilty Secrets and a Lurking Psycho on a Weekend Getaway
James Franco’s younger brother Dave makes a very impressive directorial debut in a taut psycho-thriller of sharp adept twists about two couples whose weekend getaway is torn asunder by guilty secrets and a lurking psycho
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