Poché Pictures

Circle Line is proudly billed as Singapore’s first modern-day creature feature, which is bold, because after watching it, you realize the real monster wasn’t in the tunnels — it was the script all along. On paper, this thing sounds like a tight, claustrophobic thriller: last subway train of the night, wrong turn into abandoned tunnels, … Read More “Circle Line” »

Booger is a movie about grief, transformation, and…hairballs. It’s also, unfortunately, a movie that feels like someone dared themselves to stretch a five-minute weird short into 90 minutes and then never backed down. It has a concept, vibes, and commitment. What it does not have is enough story to justify the amount of time you … Read More “Booger” »

Blackout is the sort of movie that clearly loves werewolf classics so much it decides to put on their skin, wear them around town, and then forget to actually be scary, tense, or even awake half the time. It’s like a melancholy fan letter to The Wolf Man that accidentally got soaked in cheap beer … Read More “Blackout” »

Big Shark is the movie equivalent of a drunk text that somehow cost actual money to make. It is cinema in the same way instant noodles are “cuisine”: technically, yes, but you probably shouldn’t inspect it too closely if you value your sanity. Written, directed, produced by, and starring Tommy Wiseau, Big Shark answers a … Read More “Big Shark” »

Asvins is the sort of horror film that doesn’t just want to scare you; it wants to sit on your chest at 3 a.m., whisper a folk tale in your ear, and then ask how your unresolved guilt is doing. It’s moody, confident, and strangely elegant for a movie that spends so much time locking … Read More “Asvins” »

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is the kind of movie that looks you dead in the eye, announces, “I’m a bold, modern take on Frankenstein,” and then proceeds to trip over its own scalpels while insisting you applaud anyway. On paper, it sounds incredible: a Black, teen girl genius named Vicaria (Laya DeLeon … Read More “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” »

All Fun and Games is the kind of movie that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts and still somehow manages to be the least interesting cursed object in the room. You’re telling me there’s witch history, creepy folklore, and centuries of paranoia to draw from, and the best we got was: “kids find evil knife, demon … Read More “All Fun and Games” »

The Activated Man feels like the kind of movie you’d find at 2 a.m., halfway through a bag of stale chips, and suddenly realize: “Oh, this is actually trying—and somehow, it’s kind of working.” It’s scrappy, ambitious, weirdly sincere, and just unhinged enough to be fun. Think low-budget sci-fi thriller with big ideas, a body … Read More “The Activated Man” »

1920: Horrors of the Heart is the sort of movie that makes you feel deep sympathy for the year 1920, which did nothing to deserve being dragged into this mess. It’s billed as gothic horror, but it plays more like a three-hour TV soap that fell into a bucket of Halloween props and black magic … Read More “1920: Horrors of the Heart” »

The Witch: Part 2. The Other One is the kind of sequel that doesn’t gently continue the story—it kicks the door in, kills everyone in the room, and then calmly asks if you’d like to meet its twin sister. Park Hoon-jung doesn’t so much expand the universe of Part 1 as he does detonate it … Read More “The Witch: Part 2. The Other One” »