By turns funny, scary, ludicrous and utterly compelling, Andre Øvredal’s found footage take on Scandinavian found footage folk horror seems at first to be just another The Blair Witch Project (1999) clone. The obligatory trio of camera-toting film students, Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), Johanna (Johanna Mørck) and Kalle (Tomas Alf Larsen) set out to make … Continue reading
We’re (just over) half way through 2018 and so far it’s been a pretty good year for genre cinema. Here’s my half-time round-up of the ten films that I’ve enjoyed so far this year. As ever with these things I can obviously only comment on the films I’ve actually seen (there are very many I’ve … Continue reading
Oh, where to begin… This review first appeared on the EOFFTV Review as part of a series of folk horror reviews in May 2018. When discussing the series with people who thought that they didn’t know what folk horror was, a brief explanation invariably elicited the same response – “oh you mean like The Wicker … Continue reading
In 1968, young people seemed to have had enough. The generation gap – widening since the late 1950s – had never seemed so wider. Students in France staged a series of occupation protests that would trigger the strikes that would grip the nation in May and the street battles in Paris as disaffected youth fought … Continue reading
Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying the impact that The Blair Witch Project made on horror cinema. Its many detractors will try to point you in the direction of Cannibal Holocaust (1979) and The Last Broadcast (1998) as examples of the “found footage” form predating Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick’s film though in … Continue reading
Chad Crawford Kinkle first – and to date only – feature languished in the “to watch” pile for longer than it should have done under the mistaken belief that , based on the title, it was going to be just another slasher/serial killer film, focusing on the doings of its eponymous killer. It turns out … Continue reading
Robert Eggers’ The Witch: A New England Folktale (we’ll have none of that V Vitch nonsense here – it was never called “the v-vitch”, that’s just a typographical affectation by the director after he saw the word rendered that way on a Jacobean era pamphlet on witchcraft) was one of the surprise horror hits of … Continue reading
