What About… The Rage: Carrie 2
First, lets get one thing clear; this piece isn’t about to throw unnecessary shade on Brian De Palma’s seminal adaptation … Continue reading What About… The Rage: Carrie 2
Category: Pretty Vacancy
Non-review based gabbing. Some words or ideas cobbled together and posted most likely to organise my own thoughts…
What About… Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Once the mildly campy opening narration is out of the way, Kim Henkel’s much-maligned 1995 effort Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The … Continue reading What About… Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
What About… Barb Wire
The mid ’90s were a strange place for celluloid feminism, especially if you dipped your toes in the still-murkier waters … Continue reading What About… Barb Wire
The Wonderful Weirdness of Tammy & the T-Rex
In the months following the release of Steven Spielberg’s world-conquering Jurassic Park, British director Stewart Raffill received a deeply unusual phone … Continue reading The Wonderful Weirdness of Tammy & the T-Rex
An ode to Exeter Picturehouse
I first went to Exeter Picturehouse in the middle of 2000. I was a moody 17-year-old who had become partially … Continue reading An ode to Exeter Picturehouse
What About… House of Wax
It seems churlish to say, but for a little while there in the ’00s, Hollywood horror movies got really… mean. … Continue reading What About… House of Wax
What About… Prometheus
It was doomed, in a way. Having weathered the Grand Guignol misfire of 1997’s Alien Resurrection, and ran the gauntlet … Continue reading What About… Prometheus
Stay-At-Home Film Festival: Found Footage
Horror cinema’s least forgiving subgenre is the found footage movie. Shoestring budgets that often produce huge returns on minimal investments, … Continue reading Stay-At-Home Film Festival: Found Footage
Stay-At-Home Film Festival: Giallo
Quick personal side note; I lost my job this week amid recession fears. While that sucks, I have been pushing … Continue reading Stay-At-Home Film Festival: Giallo
Is The Leftovers the show for the moment?
The world’s ending. Or, well, it can seem like it. Depending on where you are, measures to stymie the spread … Continue reading Is The Leftovers the show for the moment?
#OscarSoLocal – We Don’t Need Best International Picture Anymore
Last year, when the Parasite press tour was still gaining momentum, writer/director Bong Joon-Ho was asked his opinion of the Academy … Continue reading #OscarSoLocal – We Don’t Need Best International Picture Anymore
The Straight Story and Slowing Down
20 years ago this week, David Lynch’s atypical road movie The Straight Story debuted. It seemed like an outlier in … Continue reading The Straight Story and Slowing Down
How Fetch: Mean Girls at 15
Mean Girls hardly invented the high school movie, but in 2004 it came damned close to perfecting it. That certainly … Continue reading How Fetch: Mean Girls at 15
The Sleazoid Life of Pets
Stray dogs roam the Californian beaches. Among them strays Bonnie (Candice Rialson); a beautiful blonde, on the run from her … Continue reading The Sleazoid Life of Pets
How Jaws 2 Addresses The Vietnam War
This isn’t a contrary piece arguing in favour of Jaws 2 being anywhere near comparable to Steven Spielberg’s original blockbuster. … Continue reading How Jaws 2 Addresses The Vietnam War
The Lost Highway Hotel 