Psychomania
The unlikely mix of black magic, undead bikers and Safeway makes this 70s British oddity endurably appealing.
Review by David Cairns
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Rocco and His Brothers
Visconti’s savage 1960 epic about five impoverished brothers trying to make it in Milan and the woman who comes between them.
Review by David Cairns
Therapy for a Vampire
Sigmund Freud meets neurotic vampires in 1930s Vienna.
Review by David Cairns
Rabid
David Cronenberg’s second horror film has a sexually transmitted virus wreak havoc on a Canadian city.
Review by David Cairns
The Nightcomers
Michael Winner’s film features all the sex, bondage and murder that Henry James forgot to include in The Turn of the Screw.
Review by David Cairns
A Most Wanted Man
Anton Corbjin’s le Carré adaptation is a crisp, albeit unsurprising thriller with an electrifying performance by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Review by David Cairns
Coherence
In James Ward Byrkit’s low-key sci-fi chiller relationships break down along with reality, and a mild form of Lynchian terror is unleashed.
Review by David Cairns
Phibes Triumphant
Arrow present a Blu-ray set of Robert Fuest’s campy, art deco black comedies celebrating the sinister machinations of an evil genius.
Review by David Cairns
Greyhawk
Guy Pitt’s London housing estate drama is one of several imaginative British features screening at EIFF.
Review by David Cairns
Hyena
Opening this year’s EIFF, Gerard Johnson’s crime thriller divided opinion, though most were impressed by its moody, pounding soundtrack.
Review by David Cairns