REVIEW: Skull – The Mask (2021)
All the way back in August 2020 I, along with some of the other fellow Jumpcut writers, covered films from Frightfest’s first online film festival. One of those films that I was due to cover was the Brazilian gorefest Skull: The Mask but this, unfortunately,…
REVIEW: Boys From County Hell (2021)
British and Irish genre comedies are going to be under the shadow of Edgar Wright’s seminal rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead (2004) for some time to come, even though we’re approaching that film’s *cough* twentieth anniversary (I’m sorry). Joe Cornish’s less well-known Attack the Block…
REVIEW: Jakob’s Wife (2021)
The potential horrors of married life are on full display before first blood is even drawn in Travis Stevens’ ever so slightly fresh bite at the vampire genre, Jakob’s Wife. Familiar faces of scare-fests, Barbara Crampton and Bob Portal play Anne and pastor Jakob Fedder;…
REVIEW: Slaxx (2021)
On concept alone, Slaxx seems absurd and daft. However, underneath the seams of this concept is a horrific story of the faults of ‘fast fashion’ and the harsh price of the fast-paced demand of the fashion industry. Although, the film may encourage debate about whether…
REVIEW: Sator (2021)
The woods are alive, with whispers from Sator. Not sah-tore the accented billionaire with an obsession for temporal damnation — this is say-tur who is believed to rule every part of and haunt everything in an undisclosed U.S. forest. According to tape recordings heard throughout…
REVIEW: The Reckoning (2021)
Neil Marshall’s name is synonymous with the horror genre and for good reason. For many, his previous works Dog Soldiers and The Descent sit proudly in the pantheon of the best British horror films of the century. In 2019, Marshall was given the opportunity to…
INTERVIEW: ‘The Queen of Black Magic’ director Kimo Stamboel
Remaking a classic movie has never been an easy job, most especially if said movie is considered as one of the best that the genre has to offer, just like Liliek Sudjio’s 1981 relentless horror The Queen of Black Magic. Yet in the talented hands…
REVIEW: The Queen of Black Magic (2021)
If for any reason you don’t come to the conclusion that director Kimo Stamboel’s latest effort is a horror film, don’t fret. In the vicinity of 30 seconds, The Queen of Black Magic (Ratu Ilmu Hitam) greets you with a genre staple — top-down shots…
REVIEW: Anything for Jackson (2020)
‘Tis the season to be attempting to open the gates of the spiritual realm according to Shudder’s latest subversive yuletide offering. With a consistently impressive horror selection, including this year’s innovative lockdown flick Host, the streaming service is going from strength-to-strength. From director Justin G…
REVIEW: The Mortuary Collection (2020)
Combine twentieth century period aesthetics with a smattering of practical effects, soak it in Gothic atmosphere and apply a liberal sprinkling of body gore galore and you have the ingredients of pretty much the perfect horror film for this particular film critic. And like a…
REVIEW: Spiral (2020)
The horror genre is riddled with characters that look to be losing the plot to outsiders, but are in fact jeopardising their sanity to uncover the darker truth: pod people, devil worshippers, gremlins flying economy. Seeing heroes unravel to escape an evil threat has always…
REVIEW: Host (2020)
Online pub quizzes make way for paranormal activity in this brilliantly refreshing, relentlessly unsettling new scare-fest that has every reason to go the way of a daily online team meeting, but doesn’t. That’s because director Rob Savage makes a solid effort to highlight the standard…
Ten New Releases on July Tenth!
We all know it’s been a strange year (both in terms of movies and well, everything else) and it would be easy to assume, with all of the endless delays to high-profile films like TENET and the latest BOND, that this means it’s a barren…
