It’s not everyday that a film — let alone a horror one — inspires a global discussion. At best, there are few films that really get the community excited and talking. Last year we saw this with films like The Babadook and A Girl Walks Home Alone ...
Read More »What’s Eating Eli Roth?: Continuing Conversation on THE GREEN INFERNO [Part Two]
It’s not everyday that a film — let alone a horror one — inspires a global discussion. At best, there are few films that really get the community excited and talking. Last year we saw this with films like The Babadook and A Girl ...
Read More »What’s Eating Eli Roth?: A Frank Conversation about THE GREEN INFERNO [Part One]
It’s not everyday that a film — let alone a horror one — inspires a global discussion. At best, there are few films that really get the community excited and talking. Last year we saw this with films like The Babadook and A Girl ...
Read More »‘Jeepers Creepers 3’: An Offer We Can Refuse
In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola made a film called The Godfather. In it, a hot-headed studio executive refuses to give a role to a singer, and a mafia family decapitates the studio executive’s horse to persuade him otherwise. Decapitating a ...
Read More »Long Awaited Tongue-in-Cheek, Butt-on-Face Anti-Establishment Satire, Society, Lands on Blu-Ray
In 1989, Brian Yuzna’s Society was barred from a US release but resonated with audiences commercially and critically throughout Europe, so the story goes. Yuzna wasn’t surprised: “Europeans are more willing to accept the ideas in a movie. I was ...
Read More »One Mama, No Papa, and THE BABADOOK in Jennifer Kent’s Must-See Horror Fable
There is a mirror at the foot of Amelia’s (Essie Davis) staircase in The Babadook, a new psychological horror fable from writer-director Jennifer Kent. But it isn’t used to startle us with spontaneous sightings of ghosts or homicidal stalkers, or ...
Read More »DFX Artist David Smith Discusses Realism in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits theaters today, and its offerings are not unlike those of the summertime arrival of an ice cream truck. Marc Webb’s second installment in his reboot of Marvel’s Spidey franchise is candy color coated from head to ...
Read More »Big Bad Wolves (2013): Nature, Nurture, Torture
Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales flipped a coin. The toss decided who would take their critically acclaimed sophomore feature, Big Bad Wolves, to the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, and who would take it to the Chicago International ...
Read More »World War Z (Film Review)
Well, Brad Pitt got his Jesus movie. Will Smith got his with I Am Legend. Remember, the one where Richard Matheson’s novel was turned into Resident Evil 7 featuring Bob Marley? World War Z is kinda-sorta in the same vein, ...
Read More »Kiss of the Damned (Film Review)
Of all the shots in Kiss of the Damned, one recurs. An overhead view of a winding staircase, in Djuna’s (Josephine de La Baume) stately half-mansion is seen twice: the first time, we find nothing but empty space at the ...
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