The 2000s saw horror enter a phase of remaking older classics, from franchise starters like Halloween to one-off works like Sorority Row. Greek director Dennis Iliadis’ first U.S. feature was the remake of Wes Craven’s directorial debut, 1972’s The Last House On The Left – which itself was also a […]
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Rams (2020): not quite the GOAT, but a touching shaggy sheep story (Review)
Hollywood’s voracious consumption of other countries’ IP has made it easy to identify when a film has been Americanised, but what do we expect when a film transfers from Iceland to Australia? Grímur Hákonarson’s 2015 film Rams was voted the second-best Icelandic film of all time by the Icelandic website […]
Suspiria (2018): the horror remake as high art (Review)
Horror remakes have been a hot topic for what feels like forever. Personally, nothing will reach the nadir of remakes whose sole purpose is so people don’t have to read subtitles. That happened on a near-monthly basis in the J-Horror cycle. Another wing of horror remakes is revisiting classics, there […]
Keyframe 107 – RUN! It’s a Pixelated Cockroach!
Keyframe rides again, and this time we’ve got a new member for our conga line as we parade through multi-sensory theme park attractions, Bob Marley’s music, samurai bunnies and a new animated feature set on Hawaii during Halloween that has a suitably cringe-worthy name (see if you can guess what […]
Erik the Conqueror (1961) One of Cinema’s best visual artists turns to the Viking movie (Review)
In “Gli Imatori”, a visual essay featured in an uncharacteristically spartan selection of arrow video features, Michael Mackenzie comments on Italian cinema’s propensity to copy (Escape from New York becomes 2019: After the Fall of New York, for example) as this latest Mario Bava title released under the now transatlantic […]
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) The sleeper hit of John Carpenter’s Killer Run (Review)
John Carpenter’s filmography is a curious animal, subject to both wild scrutiny and glorious celebration. What’s more, his work has been remade, twisted and contorted by both genre stalwarts and studio remit with wildly different results – from the heinous [the] Fog to the solidly entertaining Assault on Precinct 13 […]