Where the American artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was best known for chocolate box sentiment — his work a huge part in defining popular culture during the first half of the 20th century — the prolific Italian artist, Walter Molino (1915-1997) seemed to revel in chaos and disaster.
Read More »Jennifer Kent and The Nightingale: A Song of Violence
“Each film tells you what it needs if you listen.” — Jennifer Kent Australian cinema resembles its landscape — pockets of beauty surrounding a vast Outback of baron features and hardened personalities — where, still within their infancy, it is ...
Read More »The Last Zombie Picture Show
Out there, in the multiverse of movies, is Peter Bogdanovich’s Zombieland from 1970. On Earth-Z739, Bogdanovich was never introduced to Larry McMurtry’s novel, The Last Picture Show (1966) where, in this parallel world, he shot a zombie picture in the ...
Read More »The Truth and Consequence of Serial Killer Movies Part 2: Murder Games
‘One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the Twentieth Century.’ ― Jack the Ripper (1888) Man, Myth and Monster The hysteria surrounding serial killers is often linked to the birth of the media where, during ...
Read More »The Truth and Consequence of Serial Killer Movies Part 1: Morbid Curiosity
‘In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.’ ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) Twisting the Truth A true modern horror story not only invaded the heart of America but also the impressionable minds of ...
Read More »Weird Westerns Part 3: Lost Worlds and Final Frontiers
‘I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. I was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness ...
Read More »Why You Need to Watch Lake Mungo
Joel Anderson is a ghost – a director who is more of occult status than the cult. With no presence online and little to go by other than interviews during the release of his only feature film to date; you ...
Read More »Why You Need to Watch… Wer (2014)
As with most horror junkies, I was way too young to have been terrorized by the genre. John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London (1981) — which, I think for the majority of us out there, is the seminal werewolf ...
Read More »Weird Westerns Part 2: Painting the Town Dead
‘I bring you a message. Exactly six miles north of Skagg Mountain in the Valley of Pain, there lives an evil devil-monster. His name is Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Aircraft Noise And You’ll Be Gary ...
Read More »Weird Westerns Part I: Uncanny Origins
Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, we’re going to present for your approval a novelty picture with an all-midget cast, the first of its kind ever to be produced. I’m told that it has everything, that is everything ...
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