E-DEMON follows the gamut of cliché with pentagrams, anti-Christ jargon, unrealistic reactions and lots of people screaming – none of it the least bit frightening but all of it thoroughly ridiculous.
To call [CARGO] simple is to undermine the word “simple”. It’s less than that. It’s a single-location film equivalent to BURIED, PHONE BOOTH or LOCKE, but with zero ambition and unconditionally misguided.
THE DOMESTICS is obvious in its influences and may not reinvent the wheel, but it sure as hell wraps it in bloody chains, lines it with bladed rims and sends it flaming down a hill paved with determined intention.
White-hot off the hell hound’s trail of last year’s DEVIL IS FINE, ZEAL & ARDOR is back and spitting some serious flame with its sophomore effort, STRANGER FRUIT. It’s bigger, it’s better, it’s bolder. It’s everything you could want in a follow-up and then some.
For those who enjoy their foreign fare subversive and unapologetically repugnant, Roberto San Sebastien’s directorial debut will surely have you feeling just as violated as its central protagonist.
