When her husband’s sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
After the beginning, I was up for an entertaining and tasty horror movie, but ended up with slow-burning psychological thriller. And it was good. It has some cheap scares and…
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor’s life in gradually unsettling ways.
A masterclass on how to mix absurd with horror. It has some bits of weird classical music which fits the movie’s atmosphere exceptionally well (the elevator scene literally gave me…
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
At last Tom Cruise isn’t an agent, the script isn’t for teenagers, so we get a proper action movie. A tense and fun adventure based on a real story.
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
After the first minutes, I didn’t expect to give it a high rating, but here we go. Until the end, this looks like another story where a struggling writer goes…
Verena is a nurse who arrives at an old mansion in Italy to help a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.
Nothing fancy in the script, but I like these atmospheric mystery movies. This one is also beautifully shot.
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
I find myself liking modern French cinema more and more. Here is an obscure horror from the first time director and it’s good! It has a unique absorbing atmosphere, great…
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious “wellness center” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa’s miraculous treatments are not what they seem.
Better than expected. Cinematography and camera work are amazing, acting is great and the story... While entertaining enough, it could have been more developed.
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young “Jane Doe,” they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
Gripping. This word describes it the best and it’s the best part of this movie. It teases so well that I literally felt gripped in the chest. Quite an achievement…
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
I was intrigued from the start, but then followed a second quarter filled with clichés to the extent that I started to think turning it off. Lucky me I didn’t.…
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
A great European movie with an incredible Isabelle Huppert. The cinematography, the screenplay, everything is very controlled. It tried to be shocking a little too hard though, could have been…