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★
Taiwan has produced some genuinely singular genre cinema over the past two decades, from the quiet devastation of Edward Yang's realism to the visceral unease of films like The Sadness (2021), which I found about as punishing as horror gets. Dead Talents Society, arriving in 2024 and distributed
Rating: 4.0★
There's a scene in Yi Yi where a man performs a simple card trick, and in the space of a few silent gestures, you feel the weight of everything he's never been able to say out loud. No dramatic music swell, no close-up designed to
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment early in Tiger Stripes where you can feel the film it wants to be, and it's a genuinely exciting one. A young Malaysian girl, Zaffan, becomes the first among her friends to menstruate, and the world around her shifts in that quiet, cruel
Rating: 3.5★
There are films you see at the right moment in your life that hit like a thunderclap, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was exactly that for me. I was a wide-eyed teenager picking up what felt like a "decent" rental, and what I got was something closer
Genre Horror
★★½ — The Sadness (2021)
Genre Adventure
★★★½ — Gorgeous (1999)
Genre Horror
★★½ — Incantation (2022)
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