There’s something about the perceived pristine idyll of Scandinavian society that makes horror films from that part of the world all the more creepy; just have a look at Ari Aster’s Midsomer. Another addition to that subgenre is Finnish body horror film Hatching. This menacing slow burn film plays on childhood concerns about pleasing demanding parents and young female anxieties
Read moreThe original 1992 version of The Candyman, which was based on Clive Barker’s story The Forbidden, formed part of the early 90’s urban legend horror genre which repurposed the slasher movie into a kind of cultural myth designed to reflect the anxieties of a particular community. Notably, that community was African Americans who had normally been on the periphery of
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the third instalment in ‘The Conjuring’ horror movie franchise with ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’. For something slightly different we’ll also review Argentinian caper comedy/ drama ‘Heroic Losers’. We’ll also have a feast of fine music with new Aussie and overseas tracks, indie favourites and classic
Read moreSlasher film Wrong Turn is a little like a cinematic Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from bits of other films. There’s the backwoods inbred redneck menace of The Hills Have Eyes and Deliverance (minus the pig squealing), the ‘forest as a threatening alternate world’ horror of The Blair Witch Project and the kidnapping nightmare of Wolf Creek. Derivative as it is,
Read moreIn his tense, creepy, if at times predictable interpretation of HG Wells’ The Invisible Man, Aussie writer/ director Leigh Whannell has turned the story into family violence nightmare that echoes films like Sleeping With The Enemy and Gaslight. Elizabeth Moss plays Cecilia, the victim of controlling and manipulative husband, Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who keeps her a virtual prisoner jn his
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two new Australian films, the cinema adaptation of the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries in ‘Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears’ and Leigh Whannell’s reimagining of HG Wells ‘The Invisible Man’. There’ll be many fine tunes with new tracks from Archers of Loaf and the Strokes, new Aussie indie
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