THE GUEST (full article at The Guardian Australia)

Having made their director-writer team mark with the home invasion thriller You’re Next, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett followed it up with the frantic action-sci-fi hybrid, The Guest. Kicking off as a mysterious thriller, The Guest feels like a movie you forgot to rent during the early 90s, a glorious throwback to medium-budget action flicks that, in another lifetime, could have been made by Cannon Films.

Read the full article at The Guardian Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/09/the-guest-is-a-glorious-throwback-to-medium-budget-action-flicks

IMDB: The Guest

IT FOLLOWS (full article at The Guardian Australia)

The central idea of It Follows is simplicity itself: a creature stalking you slowly, relentlessly, with no obvious motive other than to ‘get’ you. It feels like the basis of a playground game. Yet combined with the deadly consequences, and executed to heart racing perfection by writer / director David Robert Mitchell, It Follows is one hundred minutes of heebie-jeebie inducing tension. 

Jay (Maika Monroe) goes on a seemingly pleasant date with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), but after having sex discovers she is being stalked by a terrifying and homicidal entity. There are a set of rules imparted to Jay, that if she can follow, might just keep her alive. 

Read the full article at The Guardian Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/26/the-best-horror-films-of-the-21st-century-you-cant-go-past-it-follows

IMDB: It Follows

IT FOLLOWS

David Robert Mitchell's sophomore feature It Follows is that very rare bird indeed: an original NEW horror movie. It follows (see what I did there?) Jay (Maika Monroe), who having had sex with her new boyfriend for the first time discovers she has been passed on a sort of curse, whereby she has become the target of a creature that will follow her relentlessly, intent on killing her. The creature only walks and can disguise itself in the form of any person.  Channeling classic sci fi Bodysnatchers / Thing suburban paranoia, via an STD allegory (for those of you too highbrow to get down with genre horror) and a clear tip of the hat to Halloween. The creature (if indeed it IS a creature) is left perfectly ambiguous. Its remorseless pursuit and edge-of-the-frame lurking come straight out of Michael Myers's book of moves.
But if all this makes it sound derivative, then rest assured it most certainly is not. Rather, It Follows crafts the sum of its parts into a genuinely creepy and effective horror film. Unsettling because of what it DOESN'T tell you, and a concept raw enough to give you the heebee jeebees. With a cracking synth score to further grind those nerve endings. Recommended.

IMDB: It Follows