Film review: ‘HATCHING’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

There’s something about the perceived pristine idyll of Scandinavian society that makes horror films from that part of the world all the more creepy; just have a look at Ari Aster’s Midsomer.  Another addition to that subgenre is Finnish body horror film Hatching.  This menacing slow burn film plays on childhood concerns about pleasing demanding parents and young female anxieties

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 25th June 2021

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the third instalment in ‘The Conjuring’ horror movie franchise with ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’.  For something slightly different we’ll also review Argentinian caper comedy/ drama ‘Heroic Losers’.  We’ll also have a feast of fine music with new Aussie and overseas tracks, indie favourites and classic

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Film review: ‘THE INVISIBLE MAN’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

In his tense, creepy, if at times predictable interpretation of HG Wells’ The Invisible Man, Aussie writer/ director Leigh Whannell has turned the story into family violence nightmare that echoes films like Sleeping With The Enemy and Gaslight. Elizabeth Moss plays Cecilia, the victim of controlling and manipulative husband, Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who keeps her a virtual prisoner jn his

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