Film Reviews by VG
Welcome to VG's film reviews page. VG has written 45 reviews and rated 45 films.
Village of the Damned
Chilling and immersive
A beautifully designed, very British, very neat and very chilling tale of the uncanny, Cold War fears and paedophobia.
Saw
Starts well then tails off
A shonkily produced kidnap mystery of torture both psychological and physical, effective in its claustrophobia but silly when it gets frantic.
Climax
Dazzling inventive
A dizzying, delirious and deranged descent of dance, colour, long takes, sex talk, chaos and intoxicated, altered states of mind.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Gorgeous, moving, charming, funny and an absolute delight
A beautiful, charming and moving animated drama of growing pains and time travel that balances wit, emotion, pathos, drama and peril.
Green Room
Effectively horrible
A gripping, visceral and increasingly chilling folk horror of claustrophobic space, escalating violence and the breakdown of morality.
Raw
Brutal and intense
An intense, visceral, shocking and disturbing coming-of-age metaphor of body horror, monstrous appetites, ridiculous rituals, personal and familial identity.
Oculus
Really gets under your skin and into your mind
An affecting, creepy, viscerally shocking and grisly horror of reflections visual, familial and psychological.
Timecrimes
Doing the crime by doing the time
A smart, gritty, intimate and cunning thriller of temporal paradox, misfortune, hubris and the struggle between choice and inevitability.
The House That Jack Built
Equal parts frustrating and fascinating
A chilling, appropriately horrible, interchangeably ghastly and beautiful portrait of our propensity for creativity and cruelty, teetering precariously on the knife edge between profundity and absurdity. Very Lars.
Teeth
Gleefully wicked!
A wickedly funny, knowingly wry and effectively gruesome satire on sexual mores, fairly writhing with hormones, toxic masculinity, body horror and why it’s good to be bad.
Inside
Intense, ferocious and utterly horrific - in a good way!
An intense, unflinchingly horrific, viscerally violent and unremittingly brutal home invasion horror of ferocity, revenge and maternity.
Lost Highway
Don't understand it but wow!
A bizarre, beautiful and bewildering blend of psychosexual shifting and neo-noir nightmare. Feel it, puzzle over it but no need to understand it.
Trouble Every Day
See it, eat it, love it.
A beautifully disparate, unsettling and eerily visceral portrait of literally consuming obsession, rendered through discomfiting close-ups.
Martyrs
Deserving of its reputation
A jarring, relentless, brutal and powerful assault of body horror, mental anguish, depravity and existential nothingness.
Primer
Deliciously confusing
A low key and mesmerisingly disorienting journey through science, construction, causality and consequence.