Nightstream 2021 Review: Alison’s Birthday

Playing as part of Nightstream's retro section this year specialising in folk horror, Alison's Birthday a rare Australian folk horror film that is seeing the light of day again through Severin Films, is an interesting yet wildly uneven film. The ideas and plot points pre date an entire slew of similar modern films and it's further proof that there rarely is anything brand new in cinema.

Review: Seance (2021)

Barrett nods at the classic school horrors (Suspiria, The Woods, The Possessed) and then threads the tightrope of tropes with bitches, cliques, a patrician headmistresses and plenty of mystery...

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