2007 / Japan (advance look)
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2025 / USA / *** (JA Kerswell)
"A masked killer known as The Doctor is on a gory murder spree, zeroing in on a group of at-risk-of-redundancy office workers on New Year’s Eve."
1979 / USA / *** 1/2 (JA Kerswell)
" ... some of the cast and crew are unaware that they are taking part in a film that might cut their careers short in the deadliest way possible."
2026 / Canada / *** (JA Kerswell)
"A new backwoods slasher that takes inspiration from post-millennium forest hackers, such as WRONG TURN. But can it see the wood for the trees?"
1971 / UK / ** (JA Kerswell)
"The black gloves go to Cornwall in this British genre effort, which arguably draws as much on the Italian Giallo as on homegrown Gothic horror."
2025 / UK / *** 1/2 (JA Kerswell)
"... seen through the haze of drugs, explicit sex and revenge—despite its familiar structure—is a unique, transgressive take on the subgenre."
1986 / NZ / *** 1/2 (JA Kerswell)
"
Five teenagers find themselves prey to a revenge-fuelled cattle rancher when their backwoods trip goes badly wrong in this slasher-adjacent thriller."
1974 / USA / *** 1/2 (JA Kerswell)
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If Tennessee Williams had ever penned the script for a Southern proto-slasher, it might be something like this humid potboiler from SF Brownrigg."
1983 / Mexico / *** 1/2 (JA Kerswell)
"A resurrected shaman seeks revenge on the family of the man who killed him, and it’s up to a priest, doctor, and police chief to end his bloody rampage."
1982 / Imprint (Australia)
(JA Kerswell solo commentary)
2006-2010 / Second Sight (UK)
(JA Kerswell liner notes)
1994 / Vinegar Syndrome (US)
(The Hysteria Continues)
1986 / Canadian I.P. (US)
(with Amanda Reyes)
1986 / Red Shirt Pictures (US)
(with Amanda Reyes)
1980 / 88 Films (UK)
(The Hysteria Continues)
1971 / Celluloid Dreams (Ger.)
(JA Kerswell liner notes)
1982 / Vinegar Syndrome (US)
(with Amanda Reyes)
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