Let Us Prey (2014)
Aug 17, 2015Mysterious Stranger/Supernatural Retribution
A rather effective effort about a Mysterious Stranger locked in a cell who proceeds to expose the dark secrets of everybody around him, before a completely whacked ending
Fantastic Films
I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
Nov 6, 2016Teenage Serial Killer vs Shapechanging Monster
Unique and quite remarkable film about a teen in a nowhere town who recognises the traits of a serial killer in himself and then discovers that aging neighbour Christopher Lloyd is actually a shapechanging monster
Muse (2017)
May 18, 2018Man Haunted by Supernatural Muses
Jaume Balaguero has become one of the most promising of modern Spanish genre directors, principally on the basis of the [Rec] films. However, this supernatural mystery that resembles one of Dario Argento's Three Mothers films fails to quite come together
Vivarium (2019)
Apr 13, 2020Couple Trapped in a Strange Suburb
A real mindscrew of a film in which Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg are a couple who enter a strangely unreal suburb of identical houses and find they can't leave. Then things start to get really strange.
You Are Not My Mother (2021)
Apr 24, 2022Missing Mother Returns Changed/Folk Horror
An unsettlingly effective Irish Folk Horror film about a teen whose mother disappears and then returns ‘changed’