Remember Buried, the Spanish film from 2010 that somehow managed to conjure loads of thrills and tension out of one man waking up in his own coffin? Well, imagine a very boring sci-fi version, and you've got Oxygen, in which a woman awakes from hypersleep in a high-tech medical chamber, with only an artificial intelligence to help her figure out what's going on. Initially completely amnesiac, memories come to her bit-by-bit, though it soon becomes apparent that they too may…
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Halloween Ends 2022
A miserable insight into what it would be like if Halloween was adapted into one of those drama series that streaming services egregiously describe as "content", Halloween Ends (either foolishly or bravely) turns Michael Myers into a mere background character in the ongoing Haddonfield soap opera. Now, I'm not averse to a horror franchise taking unexpected turns - more of the same doesn't always work - and indeed this sequel re-uses the pale blue italics of Halloween III: Season of…
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Sleepaway Camp 1983
The most disturbing image in this movie isn't the final shot, it's the fact that Meg seems genuinely into the idea of shagging that rancid old camp owner.
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City of the Living Dead 1980
Extract from HAMLET by William Shakespeare:
FIRST GRAVEDIGGER
Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
wilfully seeks her own salvation?SECOND GRAVEDIGGER
I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave
straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it
Christian burial.FIRST GRAVEDIGGER
How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her
own defence?SECOND GRAVEDIGGER
It must be "se offendendo"; it cannot be else. For
here lies the point: if I drown myself…