Kevin Woodley

REVIEW: Shudder Original ‘The Beach House’ (2020) is Neither Scary nor Memorable

By: Kevin Woodley 6th Jul 202028th Jun 2020

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Although The Beach House has all the ingredients of a smart low-budget terror, it has none of the bite.

Maxine Peake in Fanny Lye Deliver'd. A middle-aged woman with blue eyes, dressed in 17th century Puritan clothing, stands in a doorway and stares ahead.

REVIEW: ‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’ (2019) is an Offbeat Feminist Folk Horror

By: Kevin Woodley 12th Jun 20209th Jun 2020

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A comic folk horror that erupts into a feminist story of woman’s rebirth and fiery retribution.

An image from the horror film Z. A woman and son look at each other across the room, and in the middle is a monster painted on the wall.

REVIEW: ‘Z’ (2020) is an Imaginary Friend from Hell

By: Kevin Woodley 19th May 202017th May 2020

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Z is an entertaining, competently shot exploration of parental fears and the vivid imagination of children.

An image from the show Twin Peaks. Drinking coffee in a diner, Agent Cooper and Sheriff Truman turn around to look at a woman cradling a log.

30 Years On, Twin Peaks Proves That It’s Damn Fine to be Weird

By: Kevin Woodley 8th Apr 202010th Apr 2020

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In an era where a lot of things feel and look the same, based on templates for success, churned out as quickly as they can be made, how could you not cherish something as defiantly different as Twin Peaks?

Naomi Watts in the The Wolf Hour. Sweating from a heatwave, a woman speaks into a door intercom.

Review: ‘The Wolf Hour’ (2020) Naomi Watts Melts Away in Half-Baked Thriller

By: Kevin Woodley 26th Mar 202024th Mar 2020

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June’s self-imposed exile amidst a city going mad under the sun and in the shadow of a serial killer is perhaps a strange inversion to the current global isolation gripping the world.