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3 days ago |
filmstories.co.uk | Maria Lattila
The internet’s favourite viral killer doll is pitted against her own kind in a goofy, fun sequel. Here’s our M3GAN 2.0 review. 2023 got off to an explosive start with director Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN, a horror-thriller about a killer doll that will stop at nothing to protect its inventor’s niece, even if it means killing a lot of people. The film explored familiar themes but did so with a spark, winking at the audience every now and then.
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4 days ago |
filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie
David Cronenberg enraged Canada’s moral guardians and started his career with a bang 50 years ago with Shivers. We take a look back at body horror’s patient zero… The same year that Jaws invented the modern summer blockbuster, David Cronenberg was up in Canada, quietly inventing his own horror subgenre. In 1975, Shivers emerged like a monster escaping from a lab: ungainly, weird-looking, eliciting a mixture of fascination and disgust from those who happened to cross its path.
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5 days ago |
filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie
Over 23 million people watched Jaws on British TV in 1981. A few thoughts on watching films at an impressionable age – and a call for your experiences. Steven Spielberg’s shark-infested thrill ride Jaws recently celebrated its 50th anniversary – it was released on the 20th June 1975, to be precise. But as author and podcaster John Bleasdale recently reminded me, a generation of younger people didn’t see it in cinemas – they watched it on TV.
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1 week ago |
filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie
Danny Boyle horror 28 Years Later has a lot to take in. An exploration of its ending, where The Bone Temple might go, and the importance of one particular character:NB: The following contains heavy spoilers for 28 Years Later. If you haven’t seen the film yet, why not read our spoiler-free review instead? A more cynical pair of filmmakers would probably have been content to give audiences more of the same.
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1 week ago |
filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie
Director Danny Boyle re-teams with writer Alex Garland for 28 Years Later – a sci-fi horror sequel unafraid to shift tones. Our review:We’ve seen post-apocalypse movies before, but 28 Years Later is perhaps the first post-Brexit apocalypse movie. This is director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland’s return to the gritty, 480p nightmare UK they first conjured up in 2002’s 28 Days Later – a brisk, intentionally lo-fi sci-fi horror that changed the pace of zombie movies for years afterwards.
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