The King of Pigs
An intense, despairing animated South Korean feature that looks at the terrible fate of three childhood friends who were bullied at school.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
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Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld
Lady Snowblood started her life as the heroine of a manga written by Kazuo Koike in the early 70s, before being incarnated by the actress Meiko Kaji.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
A Horrible Way to Die
Having impressed FrightFesters at last year’s festival, this original take on the serial killer genre is now released on DVD.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
Gun Crazy
‘I want things,’ says Laurie Starr, anti-heroine of cult film noir Gun Crazy.
Review by Frances Morgan
Kill List
Ben Wheatley’s second feature combines gritty realism and crime film, but adds a sinister cult to the mix, not entirely wisely.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
Rubber
Quentin ‘Mr Oizo’ Dupieux’s gamble of making a serial-killer thriller with a tyre in the role of the psychopath had Electric Sheep salivating in anticipation.
Confessions
Adapted from Kanae Minato’s best-selling novel, Confessions tells the story of teacher Yuko Moriguchi’s diabolical revenge against the two 13-year-old boys she accuses of murdering her little girl.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
LSFF: The Cursed Cassette
Watch Paul Cheshire’s very brief but brilliantly strange The Cursed Cassette, which screened at LSFF.
DVD of the month: Henri Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
This documentary about Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 psycho-thriller L’Enfer is as tantalising as it is frustrating.
Review by Pamela Jahn and Virginie Sélavy
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
VíÂctor Erice’s 1973 classic is a wonderfully dreamy, slow-paced evocation of rural Spain just after the end of the Civil War, seen through the eyes of six-year-old Ana. Set in the barren plains of Castile, the film starts with the projection of James Whale’s Frankenstein, brought to the village by a travelling cinema.
Review by Virginie Sélavy