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Child was one of the most quietly unnerving films I saw this year. It begins as a lean, morally queasy drama about a mother who will cross any line to save her own, and then, without warning, it slides the floor out from under you and becomes something else entirely.
2020s
The Influencer Project is a smart, unsettling little thriller that understands exactly what it wants to say about the age of the algorithm, and mostly says it very well. It comes from the team behind The Blair Witch Project, and that pedigree shows: this is found footage with a real
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Child is a film I admired and argued with in almost equal measure. For a good long stretch it is a lean, harrowing moral drama, and then it takes a hard turn into somewhere far stranger, and I came away genuinely torn about whether that swerve was brave or a
2020s
I came to Leave Me Alone partly for its lead. Kiran Sonia Sawar was wonderful in the miniseries Pure, a show I loved, and the chance to watch her carry a horror short was reason enough to say yes when the film-maker Shehroze Khan asked me to take a
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There is no character in the whole of cinema who has been to the screen more often than Dracula, which means every new version arrives carrying an impossible weight. How do you say anything fresh about a story we have all seen dozens of times, from Lugosi through Christopher Lee
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I wanted to be won over by Electric Meat. Everything about it is designed to appeal to the part of me that loves cinema at its strangest: a wordless, black and white psychosexual thriller from the comic book artist Dan Schaffer, making his feature directing debut, premiering in the dead
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Tobee Collins made Verena with no filmmaking experience at all. None. He taught himself to write, to shoot, to light, to edit and to score, and then went and did every one of those jobs himself: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor and composer. It was his first film, and it
2010s
There's a special kind of disappointment that comes from watching a film that doesn't just fail, but fails while desperately trying to be five things at once. The Mummy (2017) is that film. A confused, joyless, soulless mess that takes one of cinema's most
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Brianna Lee is one of those filmmakers who simply does the lot. On her debut feature The Troll she wrote, directed, produced, edited and took the lead role, and it earned her a nomination for Best Performance in a Debut Feature when it world premiered at the 34th Raindance Film
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Ryan Callaway has spent well over a decade quietly building one of the more prolific independent horror operations in America. Through his own company, Shady Dawn Pictures, he writes, directs and produces films that get made outside the studio system entirely and have found their way into more than 150
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