Unfolding in what looks like a single take, Thomas Sieben sends his protagonist into a house that’s haunted by historical traumaWhen Maria (Nilam Farooq) shows up 37 weeks pregnant at the attractive but remote country home of her husband Viktor (David …
Director Quarxx’s underworld car-crash drama chances little humour as it dolorously teases out morals and metaphysicsThis Stygian jolly, in which dumbstruck driver Nathan (Hugo Dillon) finds himself out of the mortal coil after colliding with a motorcy…
Ole Bornedal follows up his 90s suspense thriller Nightwatch and goes back to the same creepy buildingThirty years ago, just before the Dogme 95 movement raised the profile of Danish film-making, Ole Bornedal’s suspense thriller Nightwatch was what suc…
Duris stars as a father protecting his son, who may or may not be mutating, in Thomas Cailley’s well-crafted thrillerThomas Cailley’s sci-fi fantasy has too much sensitivity and good taste to be the proper horror-thriller or creature feature that it al…
The story of two historians unleashing evil while recording a song is a strong idea and there are good moments and performances, but it is too chaotic and unfocused to resonatePaul Duane is the film-maker who in 2011 made Barbaric Genius, a gripping do…
A young woman finds the pub she’s inherited is home to a 400-year-old she-devil, but few of the ensuing jump scares will surprise youThe extravagant absurdity of this chiller from screenwriter Lorcan Reilly and director Alberto Corredor might conceivab…
Family trip to Norway that falls prey to a killer gremlin isn’t silly or scary enough to provide much entertainment You’re in Norway now. Nothing bad ever happens.” That’s an American dad reassuring his two kids, not long after they move to the Norwegi…
Student-level production values mar this promising-sounding comedic caper about a bumbling crime gangSome none-too-bright ne’er-do-wells are trying to lie low in an out-of-the-way bungalow near Dublin, having committed a heist that has gone slightly pe…
A young woman is tormented in her sleep in this crepuscular debut feature from Norwegian writer-director Kjersti Helen RasmussenIf there is one place you would have thought a sleep-deprived person might be able to stop herself dropping off, it’s in a l…
