Psychological Thriller 
Tale of Two Sisters(12)
Another “old” video review of Kim Jee-Woon’s brilliant film. Here’s a link to the trailer -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anF5XiN8QY8 Enjoy!
House at the End of the Street (2012): Naughty Neighbours
Looking this up on IMDb after I’d watched it, I was amazed to see quite a few folks just flat-out did not like this film. Apparently they were expecting some type of horror slasher flick and not what they got which was a physiological thriller. I’ll admit that as a “horror” film, this falls flat…. Read More ›
The Skin I Live In (2011): Revenge Eaten Cold
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar this 2011 film is an adaptation of Thierry Jonquet‘s novel Mygale (published as Tarantula in English) *information courtesy of Wikipedia* and is about tragic death, madness and revenge. Almodóvar first read the book ten years before the film was made and he was impressed by ”the magnitude of Doctor Ledgard’s vendetta” *information… Read More ›
Irresistible (2006): Poetic Paranoia
Written and directed by Ann Turner and starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill and Emily Blunt, Irresistible is a brilliant little psychological thriller. All the actors play their respective roles with conviction and help move the film along at a cracking pace. The film deals with issues of obsession, paranoia, guilt, and abandonment. Shot on what appears to be a rather small… Read More ›
Retreat (2011): Apocalypse on a Scottish Island
First-time director Carl Tibbetts (who co-wrote the screenplay with fellow first-timer Janice Hallett) has delivered a brilliantly claustrophobic apocalyptic film with Retreat. With a cosy cast of three, Jamie Bell, Thandie Newton and Cillian Murphy, Retreat is an atmospheric, tense, scary film that is so full of suspense that you feel the urge to watch it with your… Read More ›
Shutter Island (2010): A Scorsese Screamer
Director Martin Scorsese’s film Shutter Island was touted as ‘Scorsese does horror’ by the studio marketing department. The teasers and trailers that cropped up in theatres and television as early as 2008 slotted the film firmly in the scary screamer category. So I was a little bit more than confused when I finally got to… Read More ›
Dreamscape (1984): Inceptions Pappa
Directed by Joseph Ruben (The Stepfather, The Forgotten) Dreamscape is about dreaming, going into someone else’s dream and controlling it. If the plot sounds familiar, it’s because it is. The concept has been used to great effect in two other films. The Cell (2000) and Inception (2010) both utilized the plot device of entering another person’s dreams and either controlling or changing them. All three films… Read More ›
The Devils Rejects (2005): Zombie Western Horror
Rob Zombie wrote and directed this sequel to House of a 1000 Corpses. After the financial success of Corpses Lions Gate Entertainment were eager for Zombie to make another film. Rob had an idea for a sequel while filming Corpses about the sheriff’s brother coming after the Firefly clan in an act of deadly revenge. With the… Read More ›
Thirst (2009): It’s In the Blood
There are a lot of people who watched this film simply because it’s by the iconic, cult favourite, South Korean director/auteur - Chan-wook Park. Chan-wook, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Seo-Gyeong Jeon which is based on the book Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, has not disappointed us with his version of a vampire tale. This is completely unlike any… Read More ›
Red Lights (2012): Little Things That You Do
Written and directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Buried, The Contestant) Red Lights is really a psychological cum paranormal thriller. Rodrigo’s last film Buried did so well, that the studios obviously trusted him to work with the big money, aka star actors. You cannot really get much bigger than veteran actors Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, and Joely Richardson. Add into this already heady mix, the more ‘recent’… Read More ›
