Tag: orphan

Nature is vast and indifferent. It is often cruel. And yet the sunrises and the sunsets are glorious, any life is extraordinary, and regardless of the time, place or circumstances of one’s birth, there are unfathomable wonders intermingled with pain...

In the early minutes of Laura Casabe’s sweltering horror-adjacent drama, The Virgin of The Quarry Lake, a homeless vagrant is nearly beaten to death in a middle-class neighbourhood. Bearing passing resemblance to the creature behind the Winkies in Mulholland Drive,...

Thirteen years ago, a mid-budget horror film caused an outsized stir among genre film fans stemming from its delightfully absurd third act twist. That film was Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan, a film that starts out as an updated riff on The...