[Movies] Singapore and Malaysia cinema’s love affair with pontianaks
There’s no doubting the amount of love that Singapore and Malaysia have for the pontianak. The pontianak is said to arise when a woman dies [Click to read more.]
horror
[Movie Review] ‘Ma’ hews so close to real life that it’s disturbing
Ma is one of those films that defy categorisation. While it’s billed as a psychological horror film, it feels more like a rather unnerving drama [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Child’s Play’ is a brilliant, humorous, gory parable on the dangers of technology
Most horror movies are just that — an excuse for a crazed creature to hunt down hapless human victims in a Gothic and extremely dark [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] Entertainingly eerie, ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ doesn’t show much of Annabelle
The thrill of watching an Annabelle movie is seeing the haunted doll herself (itself?) and trying your best to spot whether it moves of its [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Sadako’ may be bland, but it has a TV
Most supernatural horror movies keep their best scares for last — which is usually the ghost or monster in question. Before that, there’s an assortment [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘The Curse of the Weeping Woman’ is delightfully horrific in all the right ways
If you’re a horror buff, you may have heard of La Llorona, the Mexican banshee who is the titular weeping woman of The Curse of [Click to read more.]
[Movies] 2019’s ‘Hellboy’ is a bizarre mishmash of directorial decisions
11 years after the previous Hellboy film, we finally have a new one — which, predictably, is a reboot that invites comparisons with the 2004 [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Ghost Wife’ is an authentic supernatural love story
Far too many films bill themselves as “supernatural romances” without actually examining the “supernatural” aspect of the romance. If the romance isn’t any different from [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Homestay’ is a sweet reminder of why we should be thankful for life
If you’re the philosophical type, you can see how Homestay‘s title is a metaphorical observation about the ephemeral nature of life. Yet, despite the slightly [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Escape Room’ lives up to its name
It’s rare to find a film that would benefit from focusing less on story, but Escape Room is one of those rare films. The title [Click to read more.]