Solitary starts off with a good idea: a couple of characters wake up in a glorified shipping container orbiting around the planet...
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The Lighthouse (2016)
Two lighthouse keepers arrive at their latest post, a windswept island twenty-five miles off the coast of Pembroke...
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The Vanishing (2018)
The Vanishing is a solid 2018 entry in the 'crazy events in a lighthouse' cycle which has been experiencing a surge of popularity recently....
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Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
It's probably fair to say that Anna and the Apocalypse is the best comedy-horror-musical ever made, with the arguable exception of The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
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Redcon-1 (2018)
Redcon-1 has all the hallmarks of being a stuntman’s vanity project: the cast is almost entirely made up by stuntmen; it features numerous fight sequences in lieu of a plot; and it goes on way, way too long (nearly two hours – even the best of horror films doesn’t deserve a running time that...
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Blackwood (2014)
Blackwood is the kind of tasteful, competent ghost story which would fit in comfortably with the assorted productions being made by the revived Hammer Films....
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Dark Touch (2013)
Dark Touch (2013) is a kind of ghost story which isn't really a ghost story, a poltergeist movie with elements of Carrie thrown in for good luck. ...
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A while ago, I had the crazy idea to write a book about the boom in British horror films since the beginning of the millennium. After a couple of years, though, and after watching way too many films that were essentially exactly the same, I came to a difficult conclusion. There are too many...
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