Written and directed by Duncan Birmingham
Adam and Margo’s housewarming party is a success. One couple linger after the other guests, revealing themselves to be wealthy neighbours. As one night cap leads to another, Adam and Margo suspect their new friends are duplicitous strangers
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Directed by Nico van den Brink
Written by Daan Bakker and Nico van den Brink
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient. (IMDB)
Moloch opens on what appears to be the home invasion and murder of Betriek’s (Sallie Harmsen) grandmother when Betriek was a young girl. We then fast forward 30 years and Betriek still lives at the family home with her mother and father (who appear to be separated) and her young daughter, Hanna (Noor can der Velden).
As Betriek, a school teacher, helps prepare the kids for the annual festival to celebrate Feike, the focus of a local folk story, a team of archaeologists unearth a number of bodies, all women, who have had their throats cut vertically before being dumped in the peat bog. The bodies come from many different eras but all appear to have died in the same way.
Written by Joshua Hall, David Ian McKendry and Todd Rigney
Directed by Rebekah McKendry
After a breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop. He finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking from an adjacent stall. Soon Wes realizes he is involved in a situation more terrible than he could imagine.
Glorious is a well-written and directed film that is lean, fun, and gory. It has half a foot in some serious moral themes but doesn’t get bogged down trying to be too clever. It knows what it is, plays to those strengths and is a glorious example of what you can do with a contained horror.
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