CALIBRE. (2018) REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS.

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CALIBRE. (2018) WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MATT PALMER.

STARRING JACK LOWDEN, MARTIN MCCANN, TONY CURRAN, KATE BRACKEN AND KITTY LOVETT.

REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©

This horror film is currently on Netflix and I loved it. It feels a bit like THE RITUAL initially, one of my favourite modern horror films along with MIDSOMMAR and IT FOLLOWS. It uses one of my most beloved tropes: a couple of guys head off into the ‘wilds’ of somewhere to do a thing, and the trip turns into the nightmare of all time, from which none- or only one- will escape. Usually the nice guy.

In THE RITUAL, four lads jet from England to the wilds of Sweden (except that it was the wilds of Romania that actually showed up on our screens- no, it wasn’t a mistake, they did it on purpose, lol!) in honour of a mate of theirs who’s passed…

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THE BLOODY JUDGE. (1970) REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS.

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THE BLOODY JUDGE. (1970) DIRECTED AND CO-WRITTEN BY JESUS FRANCO.

PRODUCED BY HARRY ALAN TOWERS.

MUSIC BY BRUCE NICOLAI.

STARRING CHRISTOPHER LEE, LEO GENN, MARIA ROHM, MILO QUESADA AND HOWARD VERNON.

REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©

I loved this robust seventeenth century romp, despite its being a tiny bit of a mess. It’s not really sure whether it’s a war film, a biopic of Judge Jeffries, an erotic nudie film, a film about a witch-finder or a film about the Inquisition.

Instead, it ends up being a mish-mash of all of these things, with the flavour of five different countries to boot, thanks to the tendency of the producer, Harry Alan Towers, to involve a load of different countries in the money-gathering stage of production, thus making this movie an Anglo-American-German-Spanish-French-Italian co-production. There’s a mouthful for you. It might explain, however, why the spoken dialogue in the film switched three…

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