To the unconverted, Westerns are a predictable genre in which the same archetypal characters, settings and situations recur over and over again. To fans, Westerns are a fabulously varied genre in which the same archetypal characters, settings and situations can be combined in an infinite number of original variations. Think, […]
Reviews
Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968) Scooby Doo for Adults! (Review)
Paranormal Activity (2007) all these years later, still the best of the bunch (Review)
A full 8 years after the found footage sleeper hit The Blair Witch Project made camcorder footage terrifying, in 2007 director Oren Peli released Paranormal Activity on a (somewhat) unsuspecting cinema audience. Spawning a string of sequels which arguably rivals the Blumhouse MCU of horror, does this Second Sight re-release […]
Gaia (2021) Challenging Ecological South African Body Horror (Review)
Duel to the Death (1983) One of the unsung action movies of the 1980s (Review)
Children of the Corn (1984 -1995) The also-ran horror franchise that keeps on motoring (Review)
Corruption (1968) Camp British Proto-Slasher with a surprisingly game Peter Cushing (Review)
Re-released by Indicator, 1968’s Corruption asks a bold question, unheard of during that era of British horror… “What if Peter Cushing did horrible murders in a 60’s style suit rather than a Victorian-era suit?” The plot of this Robert Hartford-Davis directed slasher is the kind of nonsense that you’d expect […]
Walk on the Wild Side (1962) More Like Walk on the Mild Side (Review)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Reassessment of Lynch’s ‘pathologically unpleasant’ film is complete (Review)
There was a time when people would have been surprised to see Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on Criterion, you know. Janet Maslin’s infamous New York Times pan (“brain-dead grotesquerie… pathologically unpleasant”) set the tone for the initial Cannes reception, and things did not get any better once it […]
…And the Fifth Horseman is Fear (1964) A brutal portrait of fear under an occupying regime (Review)
Fear pries at the beautifully illustrated characters within this Zbyněk Brynych feature. …And the Fifth Horseman is Fear contemplates the agony and unilateral terror present in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. There is no respite for the glum halls, the dark and brooding cinematography makes sure of that. This 1960s Brynych piece contemplates the impact […]