![]() ![]() The indie sci-fi film The Vast of Night is hands down one of the best films of 2020, and a wonderful surprise. Run Time: 1 hr 31 min | Director: Andrew Patterson Funny and endlessly entertaining, Chopping Mall is a perfect throwback midnight movie. The whole film has that cheeky self-awareness, including some none-too-subtle genre references - it even features one of Eating Raoul duo Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov's seventeen film cameos as The Blands. Whacky and unafraid to be more fun than scary, Chopping Mall is a delightful B-movie where people say things like "I'm just not used to be chased around a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots" with a straight face. Locked in the high-tech shopping mall overnight with the laser-eyed murderbots rolling up behind their every move, the teens arm up and fight back to the quintessential 80s electronic score. Run Time: 1 hr 35 min | Director: Jim WynorskiĬast: Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell' Barbara Crampton, Karrie Emmerson, Russell Todd, Nick Segal, Dick MillerĬhopping Mall is 80s to the utmost the neon, the hair, the overtly sensationalist nudity, but in the place of your average slasher killer, Chopping Mall pits a gang of lusty teens against a trio of deadly, malfunctioning mall security robots. I won’t lie, The Wailing is also pretty confusing on a first watch, especially to a Western viewer, but like a mirror of the film itself, investigating its meaning only seems to draw out further horrors. Director Hong-jin Na keeps the pace pounding and the surprises coming (including one of the best on-screen uses of lightning of all time) and he’s seemingly incapable of backing down from the grim or the grisly. ![]() Each crime is committed by a dazed perpetrator fallen ill with a severe rash, and when he wakes up to find his daughter in the same condition, his life rapidly spins out of control as he desperately tries to uncover the source of the scourge. The South Korean crime thriller-meets-demonic nightmare centers on Kwak Do-Wan's everyman detective Jong-Goo, who is drawn into the nasty realm of demons and spirits when his job leads him to a string of horrifying murders. It’s peeking behind a rickety curtain that was left intentionally askew and immediately wishing you never saw through the cracks because there's definitely something sinister as hell back there. ![]() Watching The Waling is a bit like catching sight of something humanity was never meant to see. Is this maze of suburbia all in their head, or are their sinister forces at play? You’ll just have to watch to find out.Run Time: 2 hr 36 min | Director: Na Hong-jinĬast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee A labyrinthine nightmare, Eisenberg and Poots flourish as Tom and Gemma, an innocent young couple that slowly begin losing their minds and overall grip on reality, especially once a newborn baby arrives - appearing out of the clear blue. After Tom and Gemma (Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots) travel to the mysterious development of Yonder with their oddball realtor, Martin (Jonathan Aris), the agent seemingly disappears. That’s where director/co-writer Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium gets started. As if closing costs, inspections, and the pains of moving day weren’t hell enough, imagine being trapped in a neighborhood where all the houses are exactly the same - and there’s no escape. Ah yes, the joys of buying your first home.
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