Sunday, 19 January 2014

DVD: No One Lives (dir: Ryûhei Kitamura, 2013)

"This is so wrong."

This gleefully demented little visceral psycho-horror-thriller punches way above its weight. There are many pleasures here, including the touching on a range of genre styles and overt references that are used cleverly to wrong-foot the viewer at almost every turn, a wicked streak of laugh-out-loud dark humour and a mesmerisingly steely lead turn from Luke Evans. No One Lives is taut, knowingly constructed and sleekly efficient, making it one of the most surprising and effective horror films of 2013.

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