Paul Brown

Cross the John Wicke movies with splatter films, and that's pretty.much what you get with Indonesian director Timo Tjahanto, whose previous film The night comes for us is one of my favourite films of recent years.This film features Aurora Ribero as a young assassin working for an assassination bureau called the Shadows,who screws up on a hit in Japan at the beginning, and is then temporarily suspended. In the meantime her neighbour is murdered, and the son is kidnapped , which sets her off on a mission to save the boy and reap vengeance on the criminals holding him.This is a breathtaking film in which the relentless violent action blows you away, and the fight choreography is faultless. Timo doesn't shy away from the gore and one decapitation within the first twenty minutes is brilliantly realised, with the victim stumbling around while semi decapitated. Great action, great effects, great performances especially from the two female leads who both manage to look attractive while covered in blood. An absolutely brilliant film for action fans, and perhaps my film of the years. All praise to Netflix for championing this great director, who could teach Hollywood a hell of a lot on how to make action movies. If you love to watch attractive young women kicking plenty of ass, this is the film for you.

So incredibly disappointed with this film , the publicity leads you to believe its a full blooded werewolf movie, when it's really about wife battery and the very few werewolf scenes only exist in the little girls mind. The Scottish scenery.is nice and some of the performances are not bad, but it's just so bloody dull. If the director wanted to make a film about domestic abuse he should have done just that, and not dress it up as something else.

Perhaps my top choice for best horror movie of the year. Damien Mccarthys follow up to his impressive directorial debut Caveat, is just as atmospheric and dread inducing but with a much more linear and involving plot, plus much more frightening. A psychic running a pawn shop is trying to find the killer of her twin sister, who is killed at the start of the film, utilising cursed objects from.the shop. Mccarthy is a master at creating fear from a simple scene such as a darkened room and a partially open door, which beyond there is impenetrable blackness, hiding God knows what, its all about expectation and imagination, and what makes these scenes so effective is silence and natural sounds such as wind or rain. Good performances from a cast of virtual unknowns also add calibre to an already great film. Oh, and the creepy toy rabbit from Caveat puts in a cameo appearance in the pawn shop.

After the build up with the incredibly creepy trailers does this film live up to the hype , well just about ? Maika Monroe puts in a stellar performance, and Nicolas Cage is great and crazy as ever, it's the direction by Ozgood Perkins, and the absorbing script which lift the film to another level. People will compare it to Silence of the lambs and Seven , but this is based more in the realms of the supernatural , rather than being just another serial killer movie. Some are claiming this to be one of the scariest films ever. It isn't, but the atmosphere is very doom-laden and dark, and it doesn't let you settle for an instant.

Can't understand all the negative reviews that this film seems to be attracting. As others have mentioned it's not a clichéd jump scare horror movie, but the doom laden atmosphere is very uncomfortable, and that mixed with the sound design and lighting work so well.Aisling Franciosa is brilliant as Ella, a stop motion animater,whose descent into madness is quite convincing, and her attractiveness holds the attention. The creepy stop motion puppets are suitability nightmarish.Don't know about the ghostly little girl who initiates Ella's breakdown, but that's why I like movies like this,which leave you thinking after the credits have rolled.

What is it with people giving this excellent fantasy movie such negative reviews. Apart from the ending which I thought was a bit of a cop-out I seriously could not fault it. Millie-Bobby-Brown was great in the main role as a starry-eyed villager hood-winked into becoming the bride of a Prince,only to realise to late that in reality she was the latest in a long line of damsels to be sacrificed to a fire breathing dragon. The CGI for the dragon was faultless, and it's cave environment was brilliantly realised.Ray Winston as her father and Angela Bassett as her stepmother were excellent. I loved how it became more of a survival horror movie once she became trapped in the dragons domain.

Not one of the best Korean series, the acting is a bit dodgy, and the script is all over the place, but what elevates this to damn near brilliance is the way it is shot. It didn't dawn on me until near the end of episode 1 that it is all filmed in one shot, zero editing, no cuts.The camera follows characters everywhere, be they falling, climbing through holes in walls, up and down ladders, it is quite dizzying. The wrecked skyscraper,the aftermath of an earthquake is convincingly realised with its piles of rubble adds plenty of obstacles for the survivor's.The ending post credits questions as to if there was an earthquake, or was it something else.

Nice to see Sarah Michelle Geller back, who doesn't seem to have aged since Buffy ended, who not only acts but also co-produced this series. Good that its a Paramount + original, meaning it can get away with the gore and language, but to me the downside is the gay angle can be more explicit, great for women and gays,not so for everyone else. The plus's are good cgi werewolf effects,some decent performances and a good script which holds the interest until the revelations in the season finale.Shame it's been cancelled because its the only series in which the werewolves are depicted as genuinely scary and not as ordinary wolves.

Unbelievably there seems to be a few negative reviews for this film, just goes to prove the point that no matter how great something is, buzzkills are ever present. This is one of the best South Korean films I've seen in a while. The survivors of massive earthquakes taking on a mad doctor, and his goons, who is obsessed with creating an indestructible master race.Thats the plot in a nutshell, I know, not that original, but it's the execution that elevates this to another level. The sets are great, even dubbed the performances are good, the fight choreography brilliant, and of course the South Koreans don't skimp with the gore.All in all a great movie.

Yet another brilliant series from South Korea, and boy have they spent money on this? Focusing on how the Japanese treated the Koreans during their occupation in WW2 it really is an eye-opener. Although the monster ( great cgi) is horrific and tragic ,the real horror is that the human experimentation is fact ,unlike the monster. The sets are gorgeous,the cinemaphotography, beautiful ,and the performances shine through even in the dubbed version, especially from the male and female leads.There is ample action as well as drama,and of course when it comes to gore the Koreans don't hold back. Ignore reports of this dragging with ten episodes, to me it never became boring.