Snapshot is a bold work with an ingenious hook. It is found footage purporting to be from the 1880s, filmed on a primitive device, and presented through a pinhole view. It restricts what we can see but is all the richer visually because of it. There are no modern films quite like Joseph Archar’s directorial debut and it’s all the better for it. Written by Cathy Wippell, who also plays Minnie, Snapshot follows a band of all-female ghost-hunters (who work together at a London brothel) as they...

Brady Noon and Caylee Cowan as Steven and Casey Having spent several years working as a cinematographer on indie films and directing a handful of short films, director Carson McKinnon makes his feature directorial debut with the bold Mother & Me that is sure to prove as divisive as it is fascinating. Casey (Caylee Cowan) is a creative soul being forced by her abusive mother (Tara Janae Smith) to follow in her deceased father’s footsteps and write a horror novel in his style. Casey lives a...

Dead Reset is an intriguing proposition. Daniel Thrace’s Cole finds himself awake in an unknown place, with marauding monsters and a crew around that is hostile to his presence. It all proves lethal for Cole but here’s the kicker. He’s stuck in a time loop, unable to die but cursed to endure violent end after violent end. Live, die, repeat, if you will. Stewart Sparke has proved a director to watch, thanks to the low-budget charms of the Book of Monsters (2018) and How to Kill Monsters...