Tom Shankland

WΔZ (2007)

WΔZ (2007)
Rating: ★★
Nov 11, 2014Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller that eventually emerges as I Spit on Your Grave reimagined as a police procedural. Much effort is made to portray a grim urban environment but little to engage as a thriller, although Selma Blair owns the show as the avenged woman in the latter third
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The Children (2008)

The Children (2008)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 21, 2015Children Start to Kill Adults
Rather well-made British entry where two families at a Christmas get-together find their respective children have inexplicably turned against them with murderous results. This draws the tensions out to a sustained siege with undeniably effective results
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The Fades (2011)

The Fades (2011)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 14, 2015Teen Can See the Dead/Apocalytic Resurrection
An underrated mini-series – sort of the anti-Supernatural. This creates a highly original afterlife mythology and some great characters arcs, while overspilling with wry nerdish in-humour
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The City & The City (2018)

The City & The City (2018)
Rating: ★★
Dec 7, 2018Two Cities That Inhabit the Same Geographic Space
The first of China Mieville's works to be adapted to the screen, a detective story set in two cities that exist in the same geographic space but where each act as their own country. This misses as much as it succeeds
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