On 17th March 2018, Cinemaniacs film collective in Melbourne screened John Frankenheimer’s underrated eco-monster movie, Prophecy (1979), as the second film in its ‘Now I Have Hate: Prejudice in Film’ 2018 season. While monthly screenings are a mainstay on the ...
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In 1979, two films of the eco-horror subgenre brought a complexity and innovative in depth understanding of indigenous cultures, practices and traditions to the foreground and unified it with environmental concern and welfare: Arthur Hiller’s killer bat film from Columbia ...
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Horror. To some, the genre is that of cheap thrills, startles and nightmare fodder to allow entertainment to be entertaining without the need to turn on one’s brain. To others, Horror is a conduit that our deepest fears, anxieties and ...
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