Barney Nuttall

True to its title, The Wailing is a hodge podge of horror elements which makes for a captivating watch. It may teeter on being nonsensical at points, yet it never fails to grab its audience; an impressive feat for a long run-time. Clearly taking... Read the full review »

Differing greatly from Stephen King's novel, Brian De Palma's Carrie is a cruelly vivisected experiment for De Palma who uses bizarre editing and camera techniques, Hitchcockian inspiration, and tonal shifts so jarring there should be a health war... Read the full review »

Dario Argento's debut is stylish slasher story, paving the way for his future works. Macabre and modernist, Argento composes each shot with precision, creating kaleidoscopic visions of lesions and lashings. Simultaneously sick and beautiful, the... Read the full review »

9 is a film which you watch as a child and then find yourself lacking in the sleep department for some weeks. The real treat comes when researching years later and being horrified all over again. 9 is a unique vision of a scientific dystopia. Sub... Read the full review »

The Unseen is a charming, yet pathetic, film from Danny Steinmann. Starring Barbara Bach and surprisingly Sydney Lassick, The Unseen has some fun horror house kills and a script that functions decently. The plot takes a back seat in The Unseen.... Read the full review »

For a big-budget summer flick, Hellboy disappoints on every level. It's bland, banal, unadventurous, and cheap. The writers were clearly going for a Deadpool boyish humour but failed to realise that that doesn't mean shoving the F-word into every... Read the full review »

Slick and sour, Heathers is a black comedy that satirises popularity and what it means to be 'cool' with cold-blooded murder and three fairytale antagonists in our titular Heathers. Both Christian Slater and Winona Ryder perform each line with hea... Read the full review »

Scorsese brings his style to this remake/reboot/reimaging/anotherwordbeginningwithre of Infernal Affairs. With a myriad of wonderful performances, particularly Mr. Nicholson who is clearly just playing himself (and it is beautiful), The Departed i... Read the full review »

As a massive fan of Yorgos Lanthismos' work, I have been positively trembling to see this film. Lanthimos brings a clinical dread to all his films which are stitched together with the oiliest black comedy making for an experience which is always m... Read the full review »

He fooled me again! Everytime director Bong leads me in with comedy and then kicks me out with gut wrenching drama. A seething anti-establishment picture of poverty in rural Korea, Memories of Murder is a deceptive thriller which is, in fact, not... Read the full review »