C. M. Rosens

We are at 40 films now! Catch up on the films so far:
Films 01-10
Films 11-20
Films 21-30

Audio versions are available on Eldritch Girl.

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It’s another wild ride. Let’s go. Opinions my own: other opinions are available.

• Wer (2013) dir. William Brent Bell, written by William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman. This has A.J. Cook from Criminal Minds (in which she played Special Agent Jennifer “JJ” Jareau), paired with the director of The Boy, which was a good piece of Gothic drama. I was really curious to see how this would play out in a werewolf film, and the result is really good. Also, this is listed as a Romanian film on Letterboxd, but I’m not sure it actually is? It’s set in France with a mix of actors – a lot of them are British. The accused werewolf and his parents are Romanian. A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
  {USA}

• ８番出口/Exit 8 (2026) dir. Genki Kawamura, written by Kentaro Hirase and Genki Kawamura. Never-ending spaces creep me out, so I really had to fight my fears to watch this one!! This is so eerie, weird, and bizarre. The guy having asthma also was a good touch because it was really awful to hear him wheezing and not know if he would get out before his pump ran out. Also, I hate subways and being trapped underground, so this was just extra grim. Really well made. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
  {Japan}

• 곤지암/Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) dir. Jung Bum-shik, written by Park Sang-min and Jung Bum-shik. It’s a pretty good use of the “found footage” genre, taking into live footage, and it plays with different ratios and frames on screen, so it feels more immersive. There are some good moments and a lot of young people screaming, and the ending is suitably bleak. The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
  {South Korea}

• Draug (2018) dirs. Karin Engman , Klas Persson, written by Klas Persson. This should have been an easy 4 stars, but apparently I’m not into blue ladies looking like they stepped out of Ancient Aliens, and that’s on me. However – it was very funny in places, there was some great line delivery and I really enjoyed it. Also some really creepy moments. The scenery does a lot of the heavy-lifting in terms of atmosphere, and I really appreciated that. The cinematographer (also Klas Persson) knew how to use it. Very decent low budget indie folk horror. In the 11th century a missionary goes missing somewhere in the huge forests bordering the northern parts of Sweden. Among the rescue party chosen to find him is Nanna, a young woman on her first real mission and her first return to the part of the country where she was born. But what they will find deep inside those woods is something else entirely. Something dark. Something ancient. Something evil.
  {Sweden}

• Igodo: The Land of the Living Dead (1999) dirs. Andy Amenechi and Don Pedro Obaseki, written by Don Pedro Obaseki and Kabat Esosa Egbon. I can see why this is a classic, and so highly regarded. The drama is up to 11 right out of the gate. It has a good storyline, and it’s got such a lot of passion and drama in it. I really enjoyed the story told at the beginning, and the set up to the adventure in the Evil Forest, and then the inventive ways they created the Evil Forest dangers. I found it on YouTube split by disc. This tale that takes place in a village where people are dying randomly. The Igwe calls a meeting of the elders and the witch doctor. One elder has a story to tell: The story of Amadioha. The secrets of the story hold the key their misfortune. On YouTube: [Part 1 (45min)][Part 2 (1hr03min)]
  {Nigeria}

• The Cave (2005) dir. Bruce Hunt, written by Tegan West and Michael Steinberg. I watched this for Lena Headey. I never finished watching The Descent, but I get why that one was favoured over this. This is a USA-made film but it’s also in collaboration with Romania, Germany, and Denmark. I really liked the cave shots, I thought it had some good action moments, and the creature was a big amphibious monster that was pretty cool. I don’t really get the hate, to be honest. It’s fine. Not a five star watch either, but it’s a perfectly competent creature-feature for a night in. After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While exploring deeper into the underwater caves, a rockslide blocks their exit, and they soon discover a larger carnivorous creature has added them to its food chain.
  {USA}

• Vikingulven/Viking Wolf (2022) dir. Stig Svendsen, written by Stig Svendsen and Espen Aukan. Espen Aukan is the writer of the Troll films, which I also really enjoy. I discovered this one while looking for she-wolves among the werewolf films for the Werewolf Women sub-series of blog posts. This one is a coming-of-rage story about a teen girl who moves from Oslo to a rural town after the death of her father. She’s adjusting to all the changes in her life, as well as her mum’s new husband, and witnesses a classmate being killed in the woods. She gets scratched, and starts changing. I actually really liked this, as it doesn’t do the ‘magical periods’ thing that some werewolf films do, and it focuses on the psychological element of Thale’s character. After witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town, a teenager starts having strange visions and bizarre desires.
  {Norway}

• Non mi uccidere/Don’t Kill Me (2021) dir. Andrea De Sica, based on the book by Chiara Palazzolo , written for screen by Gianni Romoli, Antonio Le Fosse, Marco Raspanti, Andrea De Sica, Giacomo Mazzariol, Eleonora Trucchi , Romulo Emmanuel Salvador. Men ain’t shit, babe. This is a tragic romantic Italian horror film based on the Gothic Horror Mirta-Luna trilogy, in which Mirta comes back from the dead and discovers she has powers… and different needs. Her boyfriend, who got her killed in the first place, does not resurrect despite telling her that they would always be together and death could not part them… or has he? A very good-for-her ending. After Mirta dies of a drug overdose with her lover, she resuscitates alone and discovers she’s part of a violent world she never knew existed.
  {Italy}

• Lycanthropus/Werewolf In A Girl’s Dormitory (1961) dir. Paolo Heusch, written by Ernesto Gastaldi. This is an interesting early Italian Gothic take on werewolves, and follows in the tradition of equating them with sexual assault (possibly popularised in the 20thC by Guy Endor’s 1933 novel, adapted several times for the screen). It’s also a blunt take on sexual politics, touching on double standards and other topics at the forefront of conversations around feminism in the early 1960s, and the female body as a site of male achievement and contestation. The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher – Sir Alfred Whiteman – with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.
  {Italy}

• Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026) dir. Lee Cronin, written by Lee Cronin. This is an Irish director whose short film, Foxes, appeared on my Media Round-Up one month as a highlight, but I’ve been put off his film Vivarium for the way that can be read as an allegory of autism. I wasn’t sure about this one, and I certainly see the critique that it’s more about the spectacle of the effects over the lore. It was a BIG shock coming in from some fairly tame 1990s Nollywood and 1960s stuff to THIS. It took me a while to adjust! It’s also really funny in the way the effects are staged, there are definite beats in there that feel like punchlines. I can see why everyone is making the Evil Dead comparisons. I think, though, that it is a Mummy film. Curses are very Ancient Egypt; the Mummy as a disruptive, destructive force when brought into the modern world, and the curse is unleashed. This is very much in that spirit of Mummy films, I feel – but it also feels much more like a Western demon possession film, even though it has Egyptian actors and Arabic-speaking sections. I think this doesn’t hit the right notes for me as it’s not an Egyptian story, it’s a Western demon possession flick that’s largely derivative of a specific franchise, wrapped up in the packaging of an Egyptian story, and I find that less interesting.
  {USA/Ireland}