Brian Kavanaugh-Jones

13 Sins (2014)

13 Sins (2014)
Rating: ★★
Jun 5, 2015Game of Deadly and Extreme Challenges
I was very impressed with Daniel Stamm's previous film The Last Exorcism; this was his follow-up – a brutal English-language remake of a Thai film where people are offered the challenge of engaging in increasingly more malicious and extreme acts to win large sums of money
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The Signal (2014)

The Signal (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 7, 2014Possible Alien Abductees/Reality Bender
A film ostensibly about alien abductees that has rather pleasurably been construed as a series of wild head-spinning twists that are constantly pulling everything we think we know is going on from under the audience, even if it eventually provides more questions than it ever does answers
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Midnight Special (2016)

Midnight Special (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 9, 2016Gifted Otherworldly Child
This feels like a reworking of late 70s/early 80s sf films like Starman and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Much of the film is based around a series of amazing happenings but its crucial failure as science-fiction is the lack of explanations for why these are happening
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The Titan (2018)

The Titan (2018)
Rating: ★★
Apr 14, 2018Bio-Engineering Humans to Live on Titan
Conceptually highly ambitious SF film about humans being biologically modified in order to be able to live on Saturn's moon Titan. After a highly promising beginning, the film falls apart in a badly cliched unethical scientist and lab experiment amok ending
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Elizabeth Harvest (2018)

Elizabeth Harvest (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 23, 2019Cloned Woman
A novel take on the story of Bluebeard who forbids his wives to enter a room and kills them when they do. Here Bluebeard is a scientist who keeps cloning the same wife over. A sophisticated and intelligent film full of sharp and intriguing twists
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Dangerous Animals (2025)

Dangerous Animals (2025)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 15, 2026Serial Killer Who Feeds His Victims to Sharks
At variance to the assorted other films about survival in shark-infested waters, this features Jai Courtney in a completely crazed performance as a serial killer who feeds his victims to sharks
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