horror

From the horror section of the Paris International Film Festival comes a creepy and unsettling film in ‘Silent River’, from director Chris Chan Lee.
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The horror genre isn’t short of either ‘found footage’ type films or ones involving possession.  Mixing the two, yet still giving it a fresh edge is new Thai film ‘The Medium’.
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As an expansion of his own 2017 short film, Ryan Kruger’s ‘Fried Barry’ is an intriguing experience, akin to a fever dream. Some will balk at its visuals and intense style, but there is something going on here that will entice scifi/horror genre fans.
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Every so often a film comes along and opens itself up, challenging you to make your own interpretation, rather than passively follow its linear journey. Black Bear, produced and starring Aubrey Plaza is one such film, which certainly doesn’t simply lay out all the answers for you.
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If you put Richard E. Grant in anything, then we’re likely to pay attention, but new animated fantasy/horror ‘The Spine of Night’ goes even further and has an impeccable cast …
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Bad Candy follows in the footsteps of many films from the Horror Anthology genre, which most people will be aware of through films like Creepshow, Trick r Treat, Tales from the Darkside, V/H/S, and Tales from the Crypt. As is the standard format, it contains several inter-related short stories, framed by a common element, all set on Halloween.
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The Gorgons, and Medusa in particular, are well known mythological monsters which most people will be aware of. From Clash of the Titans (1981), to The Gorgon (1963), to Percy Jackson (2010), Medusa has appeared in one form or another, so elements of the story are known. This lends some background and context for audiences going into ‘Medusa: Queen of the Serpents’ set in the present day.
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It is likely that after seeing Relic, the debut feature from director Natalie Erika James, the question of how to define it will remain unanswered. Is it a haunted house film, or a ghost story, or an examination of mental decline through dementia? The fact that this is still a question is one of the films great strengths.
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Moving or going somewhere new can be quite unsettling and that is the starting point for ‘Spiral’, the new horror film on Shudder (Not to be confused with the upcoming film in the Saw franchise). It is apparently aiming to be ‘Get Out’-esque, but that is a high bar indeed, so you enter into it with some big expectations.
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As is always the case, the horror genre is packed full of releases of varying quality, year after year. This goes in cycles through many styles, including perennial favourite, the Zombie film. More than any other genre, horror continually seems a harder one to see the wheat amongst the chaff. Luckily Australian comedy horror Little Monsters stands out.
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Billed as a Sci-fi horror, you might expect a particular kind of film going into Starfish, but fairly soon into it, you realise it is so much more. This debut feature by director A.T. White is a difficult film to categorise, but in many ways this is its strength.
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As the internet expands and becomes more and more integral to daily life, social constructs, identities, and career choices have evolved to be much more complex.  Daniel Goldhaber’s debut feature, Cam, co-written with Isa Mazzei, is a dark, supernatural, and technological twist on the idea of lost identity and agency, echoing Hitchcock and Lynch.
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