In the 2019 a horror film landed that had fans of the genre in raptures. While it wasn’t expected to be one of the big hits of the year the arrival of Ready Or Not had people raving. Finally there was a horror film that had everything – twists, turns, action, gore and a few laughs along the way.
Every now and then a movie comes along that is so difficult to write about that I actually find myself procrastinating about it when I sit down to write about it. I have certainly found that that is the case for the brand new film from director Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die) – They Will Kill You.
Here is a little bit of a cinematic receipt. Take a little bit of Gothic literature and then blend in some musical and dance sequences that would make Baz Luhrmann extremely proud, Then add a Bonnie & Clyde storyline and for good measure introduce one of the world’s most talented actresses, Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) into the mix. What do you get?
Very few films being released this year have me as excited as 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The original 28 Days Later is a cult classic and while 28 Weeks Later was a complete let down the sins of the past were forgotten when director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland returned to the helm with 28 Years Later – a film that stayed true to the franchise while incorporating a modern artistic feel.
One of the things that plagues me about so many horror films these days is that they rely on the supernatural so much that their ‘killers’ end up becoming baffling characters with zero believability.
Guillermo del Toro has finally done it. After decades of circling the idea, sketching monsters in notebooks, dropping hints in interviews, his long-awaited adaptation of Frankenstein has arrived — and it’s every bit the dark, melancholic dream you’d expect from him. The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as the Creature, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth, with Netflix backing it on a reported budget of around US$120 million.
With so many horror films going above and beyond these days to try to be different to everything else they often become so artistic that they seem to forget that often the most horrific things are based on realism.
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