Boyz in the Wood review

Ninian Doff's debut is a childish comedy horror set in the Scottish Highlands.

Boyz in the Wood review

A group of youngsters stuck in the Scottish countryside become the hunted in Ninian Doff's wacky mashup.

Sixty Seconds with Alice Lowe

"All of my work has an element of horror. I'm fascinated by anything psychological and I think that lends itself to horror. So probably everything I make is going to be a horror in some form or other."

Alice Lowe interview

The actor, writer and Prevenge director on demonic possession and the cathartic possibilities of Scrabble.

Hang Ups DVD review

What a surprise when an American concept gets reworked into a British series and actually works.

Hang Ups review

A great first episode and it's so good to have a new funny sitcom on terrestrial television once again!

Hang Ups episode 1 review

With a strong core cast, an impressive roster of guest stars and an interesting style unlike anything else on British television, Hang Ups is an enjoyable watch.

Hang Ups episode 1 review

Stephen Mangan's semi-improvised Channel 4 comedy Hang Ups is a circus of silliness and human pain...

Sisterly rivalry looms large in this offbeat British comedy. Alice Lowe is the kooky Lisa, who, with sister Claire (Dolly Wells), steals a car and heads for a poets' retreat in the Black Mountains on the England-Wales border. Awkwardly affecting poetic sensibilities, the pair fall for the spiritual grittiness of Tom Cullen's Richard.

Alice Lowe goes full-on horror here, with just a touch of grisly humour. She plays single mum-to-be Ruth, who has a nasty sarcastic tone, and also thinks her unborn baby is telling her to kill people - instructions that she follows with furious savagery. It's a queasy, messily bloody tale of antenatal depression and paranoid delusion.