Kevin Woodley

Image from the horror film Relic. Three women pose for a family portrait in a decrepit looking living room, staring into the camera.

LFF REVIEW: ‘Relic’ (2020) is an Unfurling Terror of the Haunted House as Diseased and Dying Mind

By: Kevin Woodley 14th Oct 202011th Oct 2020

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The scares are minimal, with a heavy reliance on atmosphere, but stick with it and you’ll find this stylish horror film wanders close to home and burrows underneath the skin.

Image still from the documentary Stray. Zeytin, a tanned, muscular dog with dark eyes, gazes warmly into the camera.

LFF REVIEW: ‘Stray’ (2020) is as Soulful and Humane as Anything You’ll See This Year

By: Kevin Woodley 13th Oct 202012th Oct 2020

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The absence of deliberate human voice lends a real sense of time and place into a rare window of a world that is, perhaps not a pleasure to experience but is, by the time it finishes, profound and essential.

Image still from the horror film Host. On a Zoom call, four women look scared and in distress.

REVIEW: Zoom-based horror ‘Host’ (2020) is short, sharp and scary

By: Kevin Woodley 16th Aug 202013th Aug 2020

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A dark, devilish reminder of a terrible and very strange year.

Image still from the horror film Impetigore. Tara Basro staring at an ominous building within yellow mist.

REVIEW: Indonesian Horror ‘Impetigore’ (2020) is a Gruesome Walk in the Backwoods

By: Kevin Woodley 26th Jul 202025th Jul 2020

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Anwar’s film is a malevolent time in the backwoods that owes more to a sublime sense of place than cheap gore.

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.

An image from the film Color out of Space. Nicolas Cage stands beside his car door, watching in horror as a purple haze engulfs and mutates his garden.

REVIEW: ‘Color Out of Space’ (2020) A Technicolour Wonder of Cosmic Horror

By: Kevin Woodley 2nd Mar 202029th Feb 2020

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From the producers of Mandy, Color Out of Space is a technicolour wonder of cosmic horror and Nicolas Cage insanity.