Posted in Horror, New releases, Reviews, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I love George Romero and Dario Argento. Together, their work represented some of the best of what pure horror could achieve if it put its mind to it.
Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and its sequels were smart, satirical slow-burning frighteners, suggesting that mankind was doomed long before the dead took to their feet […]
Posted in Blockbusters, Horror, New releases on Jan 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
One of my favourite films of last year was The Host, a Korean monster movie with a heart. Aptly dubbed “Little Miss Sunshine vs. Godzilla”, it’s about a family of misfits who must unite to rescue their beloved daughter when she is kidnapped by a giant tadpole on the banks of the Han River.
The Host […]
Posted in Horror on Oct 30th, 2007 6 Comments »
There can be no doubt about it: I am a colossal coward.
So I have only gradually come to appreciate the unconventional beauty of a well-made horror film.
Growing up, I studiously avoided the video nasties of the 80s. In my childish innocence, I took the lurid artwork on the videocassette as an accurate reflection of the […]
Posted in Adaptations, Horror on Jun 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
When my colleague Julian Upton asked “Where the Devil are Ken’s Films?” he caused quite a stir. Ken Russell’s fleeting, rotund appearance on Celebrity Big Brother seems to have reminded people how few of this idiosyncratic, iconoclastic director’s films have made it to DVD.
MovieMail’s guerrilla campaign to release - or, at the very least, screen […]
Posted in Horror, News, Sequels on Jun 13th, 2007 No Comments »
It had no humor, virtually no sex, and the music was all towards orchestral music, and no songs, no local stuff at all.
So spake Robin Hardy about the 2006 Nicolas Cage remake of his 1973 directoral debut, The Wicker Man.
Well, now that Robin Hardy has sat through last year’s biggest flop (unless you count Golden […]
Posted in Horror, Reviews on May 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
There can be no question that Zombie movies are among the finest films ever made.
The lurching, ever massing menace of an army of undead, combined with the increasing claustraphobia and growing panic of the remaining survivors, is perfectly suited to the language of cinema.
(If only zombies had been in vogue back when F. W. Murnau […]