Taiwan's cinema ranges from the restrained art-house mastery of the New Wave (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang) to a more recent run of bold genre films. Incantation and The Sadness show how comfortable modern Taiwanese filmmakers are pushing horror to genuinely uncomfortable extremes. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 4.0★
There are films that tell you a story and films that place you inside one. Edward Yang's Yi Yi, released in 2000 and running to just under three hours, belongs firmly to the second category. Set across the sprawling, neon-tinged domesticity of Taipei, it follows three generations
Rating: 2.5★
There is a long and restless tradition in world cinema of using the horror genre as a vessel for social and political anxieties, particularly around bodies, identity, and the pressures of conformity. From the body-horror provocations of Cronenberg through to the folk-inflected dread of more recent European and
Rating: 3.5★
There are certain films that arrive at precisely the right moment, catching a cultural mood and refusing to let go. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, released in the year 2000 and directed by Ang Lee, was very much one of those films. Drawing on the wuxia tradition, a genre with deep
Genre Horror
★★½ — The Sadness (2021)
Genre Adventure
★★★½ — Gorgeous (1999)
Genre Horror
★★½ — Incantation (2022)
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