GRIMMFEST 2020 - FIRST LOOK

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

The Oak Room shines with its intimacy and play-like aesthetic which, in hindsight, actually helps propel the atmosphere and tension ten-fold by focusing on characters and not the set piece. All in all, The Oak Room is a fantastic intimate thriller that holds its own weight against its bigger budgeted contemporaries and showcases RJ Mitte as one to watch.

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GRIMMFEST 2020 - FIRST LOOK

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

When Aitkenhead wants to bring the gauntlet down on the horror tropes, she does so in a blissfully excessive and all-engulfing fashion. There are specific sequences here that are terrifying to behold, specifically, in its final act, which oversteps the mark quite a few times in Nicolas Winding Refn style.

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GRIMFEST 2020 - FIRST LOOK

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

Undoubtedly not for the faint-hearted. Fried Barry is an attack on every sense imaginable, yet even when it throws itself over the line on vulgarity and political correctness, it is nevertheless a visually and entertaining portrayal of chaos embodied.

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GRIMMFEST 2020 - FIRST LOOK

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

It will come down to personal opinion if it overstuffs the material but, nevertheless, 12 Hour Shift is a riot from start to finish.

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TIFF 2020 - FIRST LOOK

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

Thankfully, both editing and screenplay do not mislead, and ultimately what Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli have crafted here is a terrifically performed feature on the depths of trauma. Not only the social drowning of the truth but the physical and physiological repercussions of the very act done upon Sims-Fewer's Miriam.

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TIFF 2020 - FIRST LOOK

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

There are two sides to Wang's film: the horror and the political undertone, much in the same vein as George A. Romero's style and sensibility. Granted, while Romero's instances and political/social gravity of his films remain subtle but undeniably effective, I.-Fan Wang's sensibility is so incredibly wild and on-the-nose that it will come off for many as too tasteless and high pitched to be poignant or reflective.

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SHUDDER
2.35:1
Color 
Codex
18

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

Anwar delivers chill after chill with spine chilling iconography and a remote setting akin to something out of Cannibal Holocaust. Granted, while the environment itself worms its way into the brain of the audience with its abrasive landscape and intimate features, it is the often cold but intoxicating mystery the begins to unfold that curates most of the film's scares.

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SHUDDER
1.85:1
Color 
Codex
15

31 Days of Horror: TO HELL AND BACK - Hoop-Tober [2020]

Utilising one setting of a swimming pool – or one individual setting, in general – is no easy feat to craft an engaging and entertaining thriller, but for the most part, Lumpraploeng creates an exciting atmosphere and tone to behold. Not only is the tension ramped up due to the isolated and cut-off setting, but it's the inclusion, and highlight, of an escapee Crocodile on the loose.

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