Hollow (2011): 84 Minutes of Wasted Potential
Hollow is a British found footage horror film directed by Michael Axelgaard, set in the rural Suffolk countryside. The genre has produced some genuinely remarkable work. This is not among it. Rather than tension or dread, Hollow delivers 84 minutes of familiar tropes, paper-thin characters, and jump scares so scarce you begin to wonder if the film forgot it was supposed to be scary. Wo kann man Ho...[Read More]
Deadstream (2022): One Haunted House. One Livestream. One Very Bad Night.
Horror and social media. The combination has been done before — Unfriended, Friend Request, Cam, Searching. Some landed. Some didn’t. The genre has enough failures to make you sceptical of every new entry that arrives wearing a ring light. Deadstream is the exception. Written and directed by the husband-and-wife team Joseph and Vanessa Winter — with Joseph also playing the lead — it’s ...[Read More]
Host (2020): 56 Minutes. One Zoom Call. Hold Your Breath.
Host is a horror film shot entirely during the COVID-19 lockdown, set on Zoom, and running to just 56 minutes. All of which invites a reasonable suspicion: that what we’re dealing with is a novelty — a pandemic experiment held together by circumstance rather than craft. That suspicion doesn’t survive the first act. Where to Watch Host? Powered by JustWatch What Host Is About Six friend...[Read More]
Searching (2018): A Father. A Screen. And a Daughter Who Vanished Without a Trace.
In the missing-person thriller Searching, director Aneesh Chaganty makes a choice that sounds like a gimmick — and turns out to be a masterstroke: everything the audience sees takes place exclusively on the screens of computers, laptops, and smartphones. What could have been a formal exercise becomes something far more unsettling. Because we already live there. And that’s exactly what makes ...[Read More]
End of Watch (2012): When Friendship Is the Only Shield
Two men. One patrol. And a city that wants to swallow them whole. David Ayer’s End of Watch is not a film that dazzles with an intricate plot structure. There’s no classical three-act arc, no grand revelation, no artful twist in the final moments. What you get instead is something rarer: the unvarnished feeling of being there. Right in the middle of it — in the passenger seat, under fi...[Read More]