In a package of interviews, Patrick Picard, writer/director of the Bloodhound – the latest of Arrow Video’s celebrations of young indie darlings – presents an idea that many horror literature fans may baulk at – Edgar Allan Poe was at his best when setting up a mystery. He also goes […]
Movies & Documentaries
Classic Film Kid: The Invisible Man Appears (1949)(Review)
Contains Mild Spoilers Hello everyone, the Classic Film Kid is back with possibly the strangest review I’ve ever done as we take a look at two films that have just been released in the UK for the very first time: The Invisible Man Appears (1949), and The Invisible Man vs. […]
Two Martial Arts Films: Russian Raid (2020) & Winners and Sinners (1983)
In its own way, the martial arts movie is as broad a church as anything. Other genres have their stock situations and standard plot beats, but the only beats martial arts cinema cares about are the ones delivered to the side of a goon’s skull. As long as the fighting […]
I Was at Home, But… (2019) A Reserved, Existentialist Euro-Drama (Review)
Existentialism is often considered a crisis. When an individual thinks about their life and it’s meaning, impossible questions are posed. It is a common recurrence for those, like me, who have no idea what they are doing with themselves, their lives or their emotions. I Was at Home, But… the award-winning film […]
Lost in America (1985): some kind of comic masterpiece (Review)
Introducing himself to various people on a road trip across America, David Howard explains his project as follows: “We’ve dropped out of society”. Yet the first stop he and his wife Linda make on their journey is Las Vegas, a town whose inhabitants live, as the Joker so sagely informs […]
Kagemusha (1980) Kurosawa, the master visual story-teller (Blu-ray Review)
74 years old Akira Kurosawa was when he directed Kagemusha. And, funnily enough, the 1970s weren’t a kind decade to the master director with the highest-profile film, of the three he produced that decade, being the marginal Serbian Adventure Movie, Dersu Uzala. A point stressed in the extras of this […]
The Columnist (2020) A Shrewdly Clever Dark Comedy Horror for the Online Age (Review)
I won’t go as far as calling the internet a mistake as it has opened up dialogue, culture and opportunities that never would’ve been available otherwise. We certainly wouldn’t exist without the internet. That being said, the advent of social media has provided ample opportunity to those with the most […]
Breeder (2020): reclaiming the torture horror? (Review)
The 2000s cycle of torture-themed horror – commonly referred to as “torture porn”, and my, doesn’t that term get you some looks when you casually use it around people who aren’t obsessed with minor horror subgenres – may be the only cinematic trend brought down by a billboard. Advertising for […]
What Lies Below (2020) An inventive, visually fresh horror finish that deserves better (Review)
A trope of the 90s thriller was born out of films like Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Misery and the like – films that turned possessive women into vehicles for violent thrillers. Moving the goalposts away from that idea for a moment, many directors use the model of taking an […]
Host (2020): as good on Blu-Ray as it was streaming (Review)
The call is coming from inside the computer! Horror fans have fought and largely won the battle for their preferred genre to be respected as art. It’s worth acknowledging, though, that part of the genre’s power comes from how disreputable it can be. The subterranean status of horror licenses it […]