Crispy
When “Crispy” Wasn’t Just a Title but a State of Life Every once in a while, cinema delivers a story that feels deceptively light on the surface but is layered with the flavours of everyday struggles, laughter, and unspoken pain. Crispy was marketed as a quirky slice-of-life drama, yet behind its playful title lay a […]
Anak Kunti
A Folklore Brought to Life on Screen Unlike other boring horror films released in Southeast Asia, when “Anak Kunti” first premiered, it was a horror movie that was being claimed to be based on a story about which people from things were being whispered for years. This was the first time in Folkloristic literature that […]
Get Out
A Visit That Became a Nightmare When Jordan Peele’s Get Out hit theaters in 2017, it was marketed as a psychological horror-thriller, but audiences quickly realized it was something far deeper. The story followed Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a young Black photographer visiting the suburban home of his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams). What […]
Sexy Urban Legends
The Embodiments of Whispers and Gossip Each generation has legends of their own, stories of which are shared in school hallways, recited at slumber parties, or shared under vibrant city lights. The documentary ‘Sexy Urban Legends’ does not merely archive these legends, it puts them in the limelight by animating what was once an unsung […]
Three
When the Reel and the Real Become One: The Case of Three Some movies are much more than mere tales on celluloid, rather they are the sensory reverberations of the individuals responsible for putting them to celluloid; Three falls into such category. To the casual observer, it is a taut thriller on the primal instinct, […]
Forever Home
Xn Home went smoothly. In 2023, a couple termed Jules and Ryan starred in an independent movie comedy-horror titled “Forever Home”. The couple, attempts to put the life savings into a dream home which soon showed its darker side. Managed, the oddities at first seem to manageable, with bursts of ghostly children in the corridors, […]
Savageland
A Horror Mockumentary with Real Bite When Savageland arrived in 2015, it looked like another indie horror experiment, but what it delivered was something darker, smarter, and hauntingly personal. Shot in the style of a documentary, it followed the fictional events of a small border town massacre in Arizona. The lone suspect? Francisco Salazar, an […]
ThanksKilling 3
An Anomalous Cult Second Installment That Did Not Hold Back ThanksKilling 3 was released in 2012 and immediately gained notoriety for being one of the most bizarre additions to the horror-comedy genre. Even the tagline was absurd: there was no ThanksKilling 2. And that’s it. The film marketed itself as the only film to skip […]
M3GAN 2.0
When the Doll Walked Off Set and into Their Lives For Allison Williams, putting on Gemma’s costume again was much more than revisiting a role. As the lead and executive producer on M3GAN 2.0, Williams had suddenly been given a voice – not just for Gemma, but for the story itself, the ethics of AI, […]
The Perfection
The Perfection: When Fiction Mirrors Life’s Uneasy Symphonies There are films that shock you, and then there are films that linger in your bones like an echo you can’t shake off. The Perfection (2018), directed by Richard Shepard, belongs to the latter. A psychological horror-thriller with a haunting mix of beauty and brutality, it weaves […]