Recent reviews

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  Review by Ben Trout ★★

  Agape with an exquisite polished brown decor of moodiness bordering on vagary and vice versa, The Wisdom of Crocodiles is a competent world in search of a story. I wanted desperately to live in the world director Po Chih Leong, his production designer Andy Harris, composers John Lunn and Orlando Gough, cinematographer Oliver Curtis and costume designer Anna Sheppard had created. Living vicariously through Paul Hoffman's quintessentially by-the-numbers script tends to dilute the experience.

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  Review by Erik Gregersen ★★★½

  Surprised no one had done this wrinkle on the vampire story before and that this never became a cult film and just passed into obscurity. Great script and production design.

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  Review by Robert Cettl ★★½

  This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Throughout a century of film, the fictional vampire and the real life serial killer have been increasingly allied figures. The nature of their crimes as homicidal sexual ritual clearly links them. A gradual assimilation of the two figures however began in earnest in the late 1970s with the likes of George Romero’s influential underground horror film Martin, wherein a seemingly shy social misfit murders women and drinks their blood in the belief that he is a vampire. The real life case of Richard Chase, known as the Sacramento vampire, also brought serial killer vampirism into American culture. Since then there have been sporadic films to expand on the alliance between the vampire and the contemporary serial killer. Such films as…