Movie starts really slow and then there are subtle things you start to notice things are not right. I really stuck with it because I read many positive reviews. It escalated to a point and I started to think did I tolerate the slowness for this. Is it enough or is it to late but in the last 20 minutes it escalates again and becomes utterly insane. It is real slow but the last 20 minutes made it worth it to me. I would give a higher rating if it was less slow in the first half. Not for everyone. Movie has subtitles. There is quite a bit of blood but cuts away before anything gets graphic. Just one additional…

A beautifully dreary and grey slow burn folk horror, this is essentially The Invitation meets Dogtooth while on a fairly terrifying acid trip, aka My Kind of Movie!

There’s not much dialogue, especially from the main character and from most of the other characters it’s idle chatter except for moments where something is said to explain what’s happening and push the story along and it’s done with such a degree of casualness that you do have to pay attention or missing that one little sentence or shot will thrown you off the intended course entirely. Brava to that as far as I’m concerned, but I am quite sure it will be quite frustrating to some.

Some of it doesn’t work as…

Taking “eat the rich” to literal extremes that Luis Buñuel only dreamed of (and famously lamented omitting from “The Exterminating Angel”), Lee Haven Jones’ “The Feast” is a severe Welsh-language horror romp so unsubtle about its class allegory that it might as well pre-chew the human flesh it eventually mama-birds into your mouth. Anyone grossed out by that visual should probably steer clear of the film itself, as this juicy but somewhat undercooked feature debut sure makes plenty good on its title by the time dessert is served. Of course, the rest of you sickos have stomached enough slop over the years to know that a degree of obviousness can be a good thing when it comes to certain fare,…

This is an eerie Welsh eco-horror that requires a lot of patience. Annes Elwy stars as Cadi, a quiet young lady who shows up to be a server for an affluent family’s fancy dinner party at their secluded countryside home. Things begin to unravel as they question their values. The performances were okay. We follow a lifeless main character as she makes her rounds interacting with these insufferable wealthy dysfunctional family members and guest. It’s broken into chapters titled from the upcoming dialogue. I like how unsettling it felt, it’s atmospheric, nicely shot and that's what sells this. But the vagueness of the story became ponderous and it was unclear what they were trying to tell. It meanders for a while…

Another elevated horror (shudder at the term) from A Follower of A24, whose main USP is being Welsh. I can think of a few modern horrors set in Wales, but very few that utilize the language for an entire film - and that was quite refreshing. Its filmic language though, formented in the cauldron of eldritch aestheticism, is a muted onslaught of earth tones, frequent use of close-up to queasy effect, slow, deliberate tracking shots and the deepest shadow, that spills like black ink from the rear plane, threatening to engulf the frame. The score is doomy dark ambient minimalism. The end result should be abject dread, but unlike Antichrist (a clear antecedent I would say), the first two thirds…