Possession (1981)
Divorce ain’t easy. Same in real life as it is in movies, the conscious uncoupling of the human species are most likely prone to jealousy, selfishness and bitter break-ups rather…
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The Neon Demon (2016)
Anyone au fait with the cinema of Nicolas Winding Refn must know by now that the man doesn’t do safe, in the same practical way as, say for example, his…
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The Babadook (2014)
Grief can make monsters out of people, and Jennifer Kent’s chilling and extraordinary debut horror film beautifully encapsulates this thesis with intelligence and aplomb. Not that it’s served up right…
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Oculus (2014)
In Mike Flanagan’s sensational new horror film Oculus, the catalyst of all the mind-fuckery that sets the entire film into twisted, hallucinogenic territory is taken from a storage house and…
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The Sacrament (2014)
Before you smack your forehead and groan with pained, existential despair at the sight of a new found-footage horror movie, an oft-exploited sub-genre of horror that spawned undying film franchises,…
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Les Diaboliques (1955)
In the pantheon of horror movies, Alfred Hitchcock’s Pyscho might be sitting pretty on the top of any film critic’s list, but it’s this Mephistophelian French horror Les Diaboliques that subliminally…
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Which – in your opinion – is the biggest bitch-fight in movie history? Meryl Streep versus Goldie Hawn in the bonkers that was Death Becomes Her? Renee Zellweger and Catherine…
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Evil Dead (2013)
Far and few in between, there are films worth shrouding in secrecy – but contestably not an Evil Dead remake. Everbody knows the drill by now – a bunch of…
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There Will Be Blood
This All Hallows Eve, instead of trick-and-treating, The Moviejerk confronts the postmodernist movie vampires (I’m talking to you Twilight wusses) with a sharp stake on hand, sending these pretenders back to their shallow graves and resurrecting the truly frightening vampire that would scare the living daylights out of us all.
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