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London Film Festival 2016: Creepy Review

By Cognitive Space on 11/10/2016

In 1997 a movie came out which for me changed the face of horror movies forever. The Cure was a new sort of slow burn which really established psychological horror movies in Japanese cinema and solidified the name of the director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After further success in the horror movies with movies like Pulse he […]

London Film Festival 2016: A Dark Song Review

By Cognitive Space on 10/10/2016

A Dark Song is debut movie from Irish director Liam Gavin is very unconventional in the sense that like many typical Hollywood horror movies like Ouija. The focus of the A Dark Song is on the aftermath of some sort of occult practice or ritual, in this film the focus is on the ritual itself. […]

London Korean Film Festival 2016 – Train to Busan review

By Cognitive Space on 08/10/2016

Train to Busan is the movie that will revive the zombie genre. It broke box office records across South Korea this summer and I managed to catch a preview of it at the Korean Film Festival prior to its general release in the UK at the end of October. Don’t be put off by people […]

East End Film Festival Review: Belladonna of Sadness with live score from The Voyeurs

By Cognitive Space on 04/09/2014

The amazing & psychedelic Belladonna of Sadness was shown as part of the East End Film Festival at The Red Gallery in Shoreditch with a live score by Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs When you think of Japanese anime a movie of the likes of Belladonna of Sadness would not instantly come to mind. Originally released […]