Cannes Film Festival Day 9: Titane
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 9: Titane
horror
Agony (2020) – on demand
★★☆☆☆
Agony (original title The Executrix) by Michele Civetta, starring Asia Argento, is a heavily atmospheric Italian-set gothic horror-cum-giallo.
Carmilla (2020)
★★★☆☆
Based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1871 novella, Emily Harris’ film tells a coming-of-age story within a suspenseful, atmospheric gothic chamber piece.
Koko-di Koko-da (2019) – on demand
★★★★☆
Psychological horror Koko-di Koko-da is a genre-bending, adult riff on a Swedish nursery rhyme, directed by Johannes Nyholm.
BFI LFF 2019: The Four Ages of Woman
★★★★☆
Four films at the BFI London Film Festival paint a thought-provoking picture of British women not ‘having it all’ from teenage. coming of age, adulthood to middle age.
Ready or Not (2019)
★★★☆☆
Comedy horror thriller Ready or Not is a high-speed roller-coaster ride between the gruesome and the absurd.
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
★★★☆☆
Jim Jarmusch puts the dead into deadpan as zombies threaten small-town America in The Dead Don’t Die.
In Fabric (2018)
★★★★☆
In Fabric is director Peter Strickland’s latest giallo-influenced horror with a pastiche, absurd ‘70s feel.
Sundance London: Corporate Animals (2019)
★★★☆☆
In Corporate Animals directed by Patrick Brice and written by Peep Show‘s Sam Bain, a team-building exercise in New Mexico for an edible cutlery company goes horribly and comically wrong.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 1
★★★★☆
Opening Film Cannes Premiere – an ubercool deadpan zombie horror comedy by Jim Jarmusch that never quite come alive.
Greta (2018)
★★★☆☆
Neil Jordan’s Greta, starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloê Grace Moretz, is a well-acted, bonkers roller-coaster of horror and laughs.
Us (2019)
Review to follow.
★★★★☆
Us is Jordan Peele’s truly scary, more-than horror, state-of-the-nation follow-up to his acclaimed Get Out.
We Are The Weirdos (2019)
We Are The Weirdos 2019, woman-directed shorts presented by The Final Girls feminist film collective, showcases the most exciting new female voices in genre cinema from around the world.
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Possum (2018)
★★★★☆
Possum by Matthew Holness is a suffocating, dark, very British psychological horror.