Metrol Technology Archives

Outcast (2010)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 29, 2012Dark Sorceries

Absolutely fascinating Irish-Scottish film about people hunting each other with arcane sorceries on a rundown Edinburgh council estate … Compulsively fascinating in its often enigmatic approach, while depicting magic on screen in a way unlike anything we have seen before

Director: Colm McCarthy

Actors: James Nesbitt, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Karen Gillan, …

Category: Horror

29 December 201228 December 2024 by Roog

The Caller (2011)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 10, 2016Phone Calls Across Time

A horror version of Frequency where Rachelle Lefevre has phone conversations across time with a disturbed woman who then starts causing people to disappear and altering the timeline. Cleverly told and with some chilling twists

Director: Matthew Parkhill

Actors: Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer, Lorna Raver, Luis Guzman, …

Category: Fantasy

10 August 201629 April 2026 by Roog

Patrick (2013)

Rating: ★

Aug 10, 2014Psychic Coma Patient

This remake of the Australian classic about a coma patient with psychokinetic powers is astonishingly bad. Richard Franklin's stylish scares are replaced by laughably overwrought sequences

Director: Mark Hartley

Actors: Sharni Vinson, Charles Dance, Jackson Gallagher, Rachel Griffiths, …

Category: Horror

10 August 201410 July 2026 by Roog

OtherLife (2017)

Rating: ★★

Jan 15, 2018Programmed Artificial Memories

Australian SF film about the development of a set of eyedrops that allow the recipient to experience a set of preprogrammed virtual memories. The film does nothing with the idea beyond rehashing Total Recall-like reality games

Director: Ben C. Lucas

Actors: Jessica De Gouw, Thomas Cocquerel, T.J. Power, Clarence Ryan, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 January 201820 February 2026 by Roog

In Fabric (2018)

Rating: ★★★½

May 31, 2021Cursed Dress

From Peter Strickland who is fast developing a cult name, this is on one level a horror film about a killer dress; on another level, it is a captivating film of textures and surrealistic deadpan humour

Director: Peter Strickland

Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fatma Mohamed, Leo Bill, Gwendoline Christie, …

Category: Horror

31 May 202116 April 2026 by Roog

Riot Girls (2019)

Rating: ★★

Nov 16, 2020Girlfriends in the Aftermath of a Plague That Has Killed All Adults

A plague has killed off all adults. In the ruins, two girlfriends venture into the domain ruled by the tyrannical football jocks to rescue one's brother

Director: Jovanka Vuckovic

Actors: Madison Iseman, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Ajay Friese, Alexandre Bourgeois, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 November 202016 November 2020 by Roog

Apex (2021)

Rating: ★★

Jun 9, 2025Human Bloodsports

Another of the last films that Bruce Willis made before his mental deterioration forced him to retire. A variation on The Most Dangerous Game where Bruce plays a bad-ass facing hunters with his bare hands

Director: Edward Drake

Actors: Bruce Willis, Neal McDonough, Nels Lennarson, Megan Peta Hill, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

9 June 202518 November 2025 by Roog

The Ledge (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 9, 2022Woman Faces Killers on a Mountainside

A thriller that sells itself to you with its premise where a woman who witnesses a murder and then must face the killers while trapped on a tiny ledge on a mountainside

Director: Howard J. Ford

Actors: Brittany Ashworth, Ben Lamb, Luis Boyer, Nathan Welsh, …

Category: Horror

9 September 20223 July 2026 by Roog

Dual (2022)

Rating: ★★

Feb 12, 2023Woman Must Fight a Death Duel with Her Clone

Film in which a dying Karen Gillan has a clone made of herself only to make an unexpected recovery and be forced into a televised duel to death with the clone for ownership of her life

Director: Riley Stearns

Actors: Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul, Theo James, Beulah Koale, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 February 202315 October 2025 by Roog

Girl at the Window (2022)

Rating: ★

Aug 31, 2023Girl Thinks Next-Door Neighbour is a Serial Killer

From Mark Hartley, known for his documentaries about cult cinema, a film that borrows the premise of Disturbia where a teenage girl thinks her neighbour is a serial killer

Director: Mark Hartley

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Ella Newton, Vince Colismo, Karis Oka, …

Category: Horror

31 August 202326 October 2025 by Roog

Talk to Me (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 22, 2023Occult Artefact

An Australian film has been getting some great word of mouth, a teen horror that stands it head and shoulders above its contemporaries

Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou

Actors: Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, …

Category: Horror

22 September 20239 July 2025 by Roog

Timestalker (2024)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 24, 2025Comedy/Romance Reincarnated Through History

Actress Alice Lowe directs/stars in a comedy about a woman who pursues the man she is infatuated with as both reincarnate through history

Director: Alice Lowe, Aneurin Barnard, Jacob Anderson, Kate Dickie, Nick Frost, Tanya Reynolds, Zach Wyatt

Actors: Alice Lowe

Category: Fantasy

24 January 202513 November 2025 by Roog

Please Don’t Feed the Children (2024)

Rating: ★

Jan 9, 2026Imprisonment Thriller/Zombie Film

Steven Spielberg’s daughter Destry makes her directorial debut with a confused mix of an imprisonment thriller and a zombie film, albeit a zombie film that only produces a single zombie

Director: Destry Allyn Spielberg

Actors: Michelle Dockery, Zoe Coletti, Giancarlo Esposito, Dean Scott Vazquez, …

Category: Horror

9 January 20269 January 2026 by Roog