I wanted to really like Apartment 212 (also known as Gnaw), I really did but the final 20-30 minutes pays off an enjoyable mystery horror with a lacklustre ending and a finale sting in the tail that can be seen coming a mile away.
The Limehouse Golem is a horror/murder mystery dealing with a serial killer plaguing the streets of Victorian London in around the 1880s. Nope, not Jack the Ripper, either.
Mashing up sci-fi, horror and comedy, Canaries is a 2017 movie that sees a rural Welsh town being invaded by yellow raincoat-wearing aliens.
First House on the Hill sees 4 friends head to a rented villa for a weekend of partying but when a body and a deck of tarot cards turn up things quickly go wrong.
Marrowbone or The Secret of Marrowbone is a horror film that released in 2017. It was written & directed by Sergio G. Sánchez on his directional debut. The film focuses on Jack and his three younger siblings. When their beloved mother suddenly dies, they are forced to keep the secret of her death in order to remain together. However, soon after they are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
A Canadian horror-comedy, Dead Shack doesn’t bring anything fresh to the zombie genre but in a nice turn of events is fairly entertaining and has some decent comedic moments.
In 1914, a young Irishman named Friend travels to a remote island in the South Atlantic to work as a meteorologist. Once there, he discovers a drunk, unkempt lighthouse keeper named Gruner. He coldly informs Friend that his predecessor had passed away on the island. However, it soon becomes clear that something far more extraordinary and sinister is taking place on the eerie, secluded refuge.
Mother! is a 2017 psychological horror, of sorts, from the mind of Darren Aronofsky, who both wrote and directed it. Not shy of a big budget, or a big star, Aronofsky has also written, directed or produced films like Noah, The Wrestler and Black Swan.
