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Caye Casas’s second feature is audacious and sharp, but the shifts between acidic comedy of manners and humour-free horror are gratingExhausted new parents Jesús (David Pareja) and María (Estefanía de los Santos) are looking for something to tie thei...
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1 week ago
Tiger Stripes, about a girl who turns into a jungle cat when her periods start, was chosen by Malaysia as its Oscar entry. But they wanted cuts. Amanda Nell Eu relives a ‘painful and comedic’ experienceThe director Amanda Nell Eu has always been a bi...
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Tiger Stripes, about a girl who turns into a jungle cat when her periods start, was chosen by Malaysia as its Oscar entry. But they wanted cuts. Amanda Nell Eu relives a ‘painful and comedic’ experienceThe director Amanda Nell Eu has always been a bi...
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2 weeks ago
In a wholly original turn, writer-directors Craig Hinde and Marc Zammit spin out an atmospheric, but orthodox British horror into realms of multiverse-type mind expanding entanglementAfter kicking off with an atmospheric but orthodox piece of hoary B...
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2 weeks ago
Duris stars as a father protecting his son, who may or may not be mutating, in Thomas Cailley’s well-crafted thrillerThomas Cailley’s sci-fi fantasy has too much sensitivity and good taste to be the proper horror-thriller or creature feature that it...
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3 weeks ago
Welcome Villain Films presents two fright-fests, but tired tricks, bad acting and some head-banging repetition leads to hackneyed hokumNew horror-focused studio Welcome Villain are aiming to be the next Blumhouse, but judging by this double bill of e...
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3 weeks ago
Actors Rei Hance, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams – who improvised most of horror film’s dialogue – claim they didn’t have proper union representation in 1999 and seek residualsThe stars of The Blair Witch Project have called for more compensatio...