Dramatic scoring notes ignite Green Height Point’s opening scenes… these are silent scenes, and it feels as if this is an almost 90’s thriller… the kind that is seedy, uncomfortable, and full of nostalgia experience. The ‘epic’ primitive cinematic language bursts in these opening scenes… and is quickly swapped with a strange eclectic variety of […]
Magda by Dimitris Galatas and Fragkiskos Arapai
With great visuals, Magda sweeps onto our screens with a faint and resonating awareness of sound textures of the exterior space, in which these characters are about to become trapped, and of course the eerie tones of the curse/game they are about to endure in the form of simple melodic hits. Like with most horror […]
The Shed by Charles Dekker
The Shed opens with some lovely scene-setting moments: a darkly lit house, a wild wig, an axe… the film doesn’t waste any time introducing itself as a themed horror film, one which encapsulates the sense of a world already in a state of terror. And at its heart there is a very unique performance – […]
Oh Jeff! by Chris Rourke
The instantly grabbing element of Oh Jeff! is actually a formalist one. This isn’t a side-by-side horror venture: there’s no guts, no run and gun, no horror show with screaming victims… but there is plenty of comical performance here, and a post-modern and very social contextual idea that surrounds the main structure of the film. […]
The Eve by Luca Machnich
The Eve suffers from one very key unfortunate thing: it hasn’t aged well. The digitisation process, and the image quality with it, forces the audience to immediately feel as if they are witnessing something a little dated and out of sorts. However, this isn’t actually entirely true. The film is quite well designed, and carries […]
Infection by Michael Davis
Infection explores two horrors: the first – the act of infection, the second – the act of voyeurism. The film’s combo of these two elements is quite similar to the Claude Chabrol double-handlers, such as exploitation and voyeurism, madness and voyeurism etc. The short carries great voyeuristic tone though, this is both in terms of […]
It’s Here by Michael Davis
Covid-19 has had many bad moments… but one of the only upsides is the great lengths people have gone to remain creative during these strange times. And Michael Davis is one of these people. With It’s Here, horror is stumped up as a delightful 2minutes 30seconds event. It’s got that CryptTV factor: fantastic horror elements, […]