(which is only a trilogy because the Shaw Brothers said so, but those are the rules of exploitation filmmaking.) Hex (1980): The first He...

New kid at school Chrys (Dafne Keen) finds an ancient Mesoamerican whistle in her school locker. Soon, someone makes the mistake of blowing ...

Run Lola Run aka Lola Rennt (1998): As a German born in the second half of the 70s, I really should have been all about Tom Tykwer’s hypera...

David Gates (Joe Olson) and his camera operator buddy Brian O’Reilly (the film’s auteur Brian Paulin) are filming cryptozoological investiga...

Mason, a man with a mysterious violent past because he’s played by Jason Statham, is hiding away alone on a pretty pathetic fallacy-prone Sc...

The Choral (2025): This is the sort of very competently made, somewhat life-affirming drama that appear to only be made in the UK anymore. S...

Some years before the start of the movie, SETI actually did get an answer from an alien source. Following some goodwill plans for a clean, i...

In a more honest world, this would be titled “Luc Besson’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula By Yet Another Guy Who Didn’t Read T...

Ghost Train (2025): YouTuber Da-kyeong (Joo Hyun-young) revives her ailing horror channel with stories about Korea’s most haunted subway st...

Original title: Ijin-tachi to no natsu TV movie writer Hidemi Harada (Morio Kazama) has been having rather a hard time of it at the beginn...

Having received a letter from his dead wife Mary (Hannah Emily Anderson), artist James Sunderland (Jeremy Irvine) returns to Silent Hill, th...

Primate (2025): In some of the circles I move in, Johannes Roberts’s rabid chimpanzee movie has caught a decent amount of praise as a throw...

Original title: Los vampiros de Coyoacán Warning: there will be some third act spoilers! A horrifying elderly luchador known as El Espec...

Original title: Kûsô-kagaku ninkyô-den: Gokudô ninja Dosuryû For centuries, the bloodline of the Nindo yakuza clan has been protected by t...

The Housemaid (2025): On paper, I absolutely appreciate Paul Feig’s attempt to update the old erotic thriller formula for the 90s, but in p...

Original title: Las luchadoras contra el médico asesino Mexico City is in a panic: young women are kidnapped, only to be found dead days l...

The Eternal Daughter (2022): I generally tend to avoid the style of arthouse movies concerning the horrible suffering of posh people from s...

College student Mickey (Zelda Adams) fights a recurring battle with cancer. This time around, neither chemo nor radiation therapy are helpin...

Predator: Badlands (2025): Objectively, this film about a young, outcast Predator ending up with an RPG party, is a terrible mistake follow...

Diva in the Netherworld aka 歌姫魔界をゆく(1980): An idol pop duo – one of whose members happens to be an ex-wrestler as well as a vampire – and t...

aka Yakuza Masterpiece aka The Big Pay-Off Original title: Yakuza zesshô Mid-level yakuza Minoru (Shintaro Katsu) hasn’t ever met a pr...

Original title: La noche avanza Jai-alai (google that one, kids) player Marcos (Pedro Armendáriz) is quite the piece of work. Convinced by...

Young, hot Wilbur Whateley (young, hot Dean Stockwell – not necessarily something you get to write every day) comes to the Arkham University...

Americana (2023): Tony Tost’s crime comedy was savaged by a lot of people, but as far as films that desperately want to be Coen Brothers fi...

History (it may be archaeology or anthropology, the subtitles aren’t all that great) student Saeki (Ema Fujisawa) has strange dreams about a...

This documentary by Alexandre O. Philippe treats Tobe Hooper’s seminal – and burned not only into my mind – Texas Chainsaw Massacre through...

Traditionally, the British were better with tales of the weird and the supernatural on TV than the most other nations. At least it looks so ...

Yakuza Muraki (Ryo Ikebe) has just been released from prison after a three year stint for a gang war killing. He quickly gets back into his ...

Original title: E tanta paura Various, mostly rich and influential, people are killed in gruesome ways. The killer always leaves a page of...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025): Scott Cooper’s Springsteen biopic focussed on the making of “Nebraska” (certainly one of my fa...