The Void
Dir Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski, Canada 2016 On UK release from 31 March
In features like The Beyond and City of the Living Dead, notorious Italian director Lucio Fulci succeeded in spite of himself in creating two genuinely nightmarish and fractured horror films. I say in spite of himself because his customary lack of narrative sense actually worked to his advantage here: the films are like a series of disjointed, hallucinatory sequences that by some miracle