Body Heat opens on the scene of a distant burning restaurant as a witness, Ned Racine (William Hurt), watches from a bedroom window. As a kid, his family were regular diners there. Now, he sardonically speculates that the arsonist is one of his corrupt clients. Behind him, a lover berates […]
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A Clockwork Orange (1971) One of the 1970s most controversial masterpieces (Review)
I guess A Clockwork Orange is something akin to a movie buff’s ‘Where were you when Kennedy was shot?’ moment. Every self-respecting film devotee from the UK is likely to recall the first time they watched Stanley Kubrick’s controversial masterpiece and, if you’re of a certain age, chances are you […]
House of Wax (1953) An early Vincent Price classic that paved the way for many years to come (Review)
James Cameron has a lot to answer for, off the back of Avatar’s success film fans have been subjected to a decade of shoehorned 3D features. Luckily the trend has subsided outside of a biggest of superhero mega-blockbusters, otherwise, 3D has left the building. This decade wasn’t the first cycle, […]
The Haunting (1963) the impenetrable monochrome terror of black and white horror (Review)
The transformation of the haunted-house subgenre began in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, where the house, rather than just the ghosts within it, demonstrated paranormal abilities. In his essay ‘Supernatural Horror’ H.P. Lovecraft argued that the point of Poe’s story was to show that the house […]