Nights: Short Cuts with Dan Slevin

Dan Slevin reviews horror highlights, including Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ 1000 Women in Horror documentary. He also notes The Babadook streaming free on Brollie, and the cinema release They Will Kill You, where a maid uncovers a deadly cult.

Nights’ resident screen critic, Dan Slevin, takes a look at horror films including Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ book 1000 Women in Horror which has been made into a documentary on AMC+/Shudder.

Also, one of the key examples chosen in that film, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmZABM_9H0is streaming for free on Brollie.

And in cinemas, They Will Kill You is a comedy horror about a woman (Zazie Beetz) who takes a job as a maid in a mysterious hotel to try and find her missing sister, but realises that she’s now required to be a human sacrifice for a group of immortal devil worshippers.

Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details