Emily the Criminal, John Patton Ford’s directorial debut, is a kind of spiritual sequel to Ingrid Goes West. Once again, Aubrey Plaza plays a Los Angeles immigrant, and [...]

Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers is one of the most original horror films of the 2000s, and represents the moment at which the home invasion genre acclimatised to the digital [...]

Terrifier 2, Damien Leone’s sequel to Terrifier, picks up right where the original left off – with Art the Clown, played by David Howard Thornton, on a morgue table after [...]

Art the Clown, Damien Leone’s addition to the slasher canon, first appeared in the 2013 anthology All Hallow’s Eve – a film whose very title indicated an ambition to [...]

Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is unique – there is nothing quite like it in horror cinema. Historically, it exists at the cusp between the New French Extremity of the 2000s [...]

Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan’s three-hour-plus magnum opus, may well be the greatest film made about 9/11, not least because it was shot in 2005, but only edited into shape [...]

In the late 90s and early 00s, Hollywood sequels were one of the places where bad taste and camp excess really shone. With the world-building out of the way, films like [...]

Many major directors have a film in their recent body of work in which they come to terms with phones, and their impact upon the experience of cinema. Decision to Leave is [...]

Lake Mungo is a genuinely underrated film – a masterpiece of Australian Gothic and a masterpiece of digital horror that predated Paranormal Activity by a year, while [...]

Taipei Story is not the original name of Edward Yang’s second film, whose Mandarin title translates to Green Plums and a Bamboo Horse, in reference to a well-known Chinese [...]