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Coming Home in the Dark (Killer Drifter Daymare Fuel Film)

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Coming Home in the Dark (Killer Drifter Daymare Fuel Film)

  There’s a chilling line of dialogue early in Coming Home in the Dark, the debut feature by New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft, that lays bare the film’s themes. It’s a standard thriller scene: the near, but missed, opportunity for rescue. As villain Mandrake (Daniel Gillies) and his accomplice hold a vacationing family led by […]

Violation (Naturalistic Rape Revenge Film)

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Violation (Naturalistic Rape Revenge Film)

  With a few isolated exceptions (1986’s The Ladies Club), throughout the 20th century the rape-revenge subgenre was the exclusive province of male filmmakers. But since the Soska sisters threw open the doors in 2012 with American Mary, a wave of female-directed reimagined rape-revenge films has touched every corner of the cinemaverse, from New French […]